A Twisted TaleA Twisted Tale

Game Details:  Comedy, 2024

Links:  Moby Games, Steam, Adventure Gamers

Walkthrough Updated:  7/11/2024

Suggested Listening:  Where There's Smoke (Ash 25)

A Twisted Tale is a third-person point-and-click comedy adventure game. You play as a girl named Vio, mistakenly traveling through a portal from her home to a mysterious world of floating islands. You must explore your new environment to try to find a way home. There are 36 Steam Achievements, all documented in the walkthrough below.

Chapter 1

Where The Hell Am I?

Watch the opening cutscene Where the hell am I?. Try to pick up the strange cube on the ground, but it is too hot. Pick up the stick from the ground, then head to the left. Look at the clouds and they will part, revealing a series of floating islands. Cross the bridge to enter the city. Talk to Hermann (the grumpy looking fisherman), then examine the bucket next to him. Head up to the right.

Look at the abyss 3 times EasterEgg. Look in the rubbish bin several times to get a broken bottle, a model ship and a blue-green stone. Enter the restaurant here and pick up the bowl and the small bottle of sauce. Talk to the cook, then to the old lady Unwanted... Flirt. Examine the fruit bowl, then talk to the cook again. Now look inside the jukebox and look at the small bed, then talk to the cook once more. Leave the restaurant and look in the rubbish bin once more Trust is good, control is.... Head back down the bridge.

Enter the distant house here and save your game. Talk to Betty (the bored looking young woman) and answer her question with one of these options (then load your game and choose the other option):

  • Yes Troublemaker
  • No Karma, oh Karma

Look at the magazine on the coffee table, and take the seed bag from inside it. Read all parts of the magazine Reading is my passion!. Leave the house and go left past Hermann to an intersection, then head down the stone steps to a construction site. Pick up a stone from the ground, then save your game. Talk to Nolo (the builder) and answer his question with one of these options (then load your game to choose the others):

  • Yes, I am a tourist Tourist
  • Actually, I'm only here by accident Talking around it
  • A portal brought me here and actually I want to go home again The truth

Talk to Ben An interesting conversation, then talk to Nolo again. Walk to the left and look at the information stand 3 times Fun at the information stand, then pick up the small castle from the top of the tree trunk. Enter the antique shop to the left. Pick up the coin from the floor and the ballpoint pen from the table on the right. Examine the strange cube on the table, then talk to the shop owner. Use the coin on the chewing gum machine to get some chewing gum, then leave the shop.

Examine the wind chime twice Certainly antique. Examine the wind chime beak in your inventory to get a small spring. Return to the intersection, then go up to the distant city. Knock on the door to the left several times, then take the pliers that are thrown into the bush. Knock on the door again, then pick up the scissors. Examine the fountain, then use your chewing gum on the fountain so you can pick up Roachy.

Look at the hole in the wall near the Tattoo sign to the right Highly polished magazine language. Enter the tattoo parlor, then leave and go back inside again. Examine the round certificate on the left wall The antique shop owner's nightmare. Pick up the small bottle of detergent from the chest on the right. Also pick up a cleaning tablet from the bowl on the chest. Examine the books on the chest - take the label, then read the text Name with meaning and look at the drawings Bookworm. Pick up the skull from the chest My friend Currey. Examine the skull 3 times in your inventory Talking to yourself with Currey. Talk to Ned Harvey (the tattooing biker guy) and ask his name My Tattoo Friend. Keep talking to learn about his needle phobia Ned's secret, then promise to keep his secret A secret remains a secret. Examine the portrait behind Ned Harvey, then back out again Grandma's portrait.

Leave the tattoo parlor and return to the restaurant. In your inventory, combine the Shashlik sauce with the rusty pliers. Now use the pliers on the spring to create an improved spring. Look in the jukebox again. Pick up the broken spring, then use your improved spring on the turntable holder and back out again. Show Roachy to the cook. Walk around everywhere until you find that Roachy is free from the chewing gum. Go back to the restaurant and show Roachy to the cook again. Grab the turkey and some fruits from the fruit bowl. Examine the cash register Paragraph "I steal what I like...".

Return to the construction site and give the turkey to Nolo. Pick up the shovel and the paint bucket. Go left and enter the antique shop. Show Currey to the shop owner Not for the faint hearted.

Go back to the forest and use the shovel on the scorched earth where the strange cube used to be - you will get a treasure chest. Also pick up the worms. Combine the worms with the Shashlik sauce. Go back to the city and give the worms with Shashlik sauce to Hermann. You will automatically end up back inside the house. Pick up the glass, glue and nail file from the coffee table. Go back outside and use the glass on the bucket to fill it with water. Examine the bucket twice to get some seaweed.

Enter the distant house again and examine the fish bowl. Now add these items to the fish bowl in any order:

  1. Ship Sunken ship
  2. Treasure chest A treasure in a fishbowl
  3. Seaweed Seaweed for the fish friend
  4. Blue-green stone PuddleStone under water
  5. Castle A royal dwelling
  6. Currey Ahoy, Currey!

You will also get an achievement for adding the first item The fish's best friend, and for adding all 6 items Full house.

Head up to the restaurant again. Offer the glass of water to the old lady. Add the cleaning tablet to the glass of water, then offer it to her again. In your inventory, use the glue on the broken bottle, then attach the label. Combine the bowl with the wind chime beak, then use your juicer on the fruit. Put juice and detergent into your glued bottle, then give this to the old lady. Pick up the glass with teeth. Examine this in your inventory to remove the teeth. Combine your scissors and stone, then use the ground scissors on the old lady to get some hair.

Return to the forest. Use the ground scissors on the exotic plant, then use them on the seed bag. Use your opened seed bag on the ground. Use the glass of water on the seeds, followed by the Shashlik sauce. Go to the city, then back to the forest, and pick one of the Caruso flowers.

Go to the city and return to the fountain. Throw the Caruso flower through the open window on the left. Enter the tattoo parlor and quickly steal the blue ink, red ink and skull stencil while Ned Harvey is gone.

Go to the antique shop and show the strange plant to the shop owner. In your inventory, sharpen the teeth with your nail file, then add some glue and use the teeth on the strange plant. Next combine the hair, blue and stick to create a brush. Put some blue ink on the brush, then use the brush on the strange plant. Clean the brush with the detergent. Put some yellow paint on the brush, then use the brush on the skull stencil followed by the strange plant (you will also find a golden pearl). Show the strange plant to the shop owner again, then take the strange cube Cube, my cube!.

Head back to the tattoo parlor again. Show the golden pearl to Ned Harvey to learn that it is an orichalcum. Go to the forest once more. Combine the strange cube with the orichalcum. Click on the portal and select No Hesitant nature. Click on it again, then select Yes A fearless adventurer.