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Eric The Unready

88% positive of 17 Steam reviews

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Released
2019
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam, GOG

Made by Legend Entertainment. Published by Ziggurat.

About the game

Eric the Unready established his reputation by impaling his instructor during jousting class. Then, when Princess Lorealle the Worthy is kidnapped, Eric begins a madcap quest through his hilarious fantasy world packed with horrible beasts!

Tagged by players

  • Adventure
  • Text-Based

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Eric the Unready is a classic point & click adventure with charm, but it hasn’t aged as gracefully as I’d hoped. I have vivid memories of playing it back in school, even if those sessions were brief, and it definitely holds a special place because of that. For its time, it was clever, funny, and full of personality. Revisiting it now, though, the cracks show. The interface feels very dated, and interacting with the…

    37 min played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    I really enjoyed Bob Bates's newest game Thaumistry, so I went back and am playing his old games, some of which I'd played before and some I hadn't. Some of this was familiar and some wasn't. So, I suppose I played this and never finished it. Sadly, I'm finding it a slog today much as it must have been back then. A big part of the problem is that I don't think it's very funny. This is particularly surprising because…

    10 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Take this review of "Eric the Unready" with a grain of salt since I think I've just grown too old to play these types of games (semi-graphical, basically text adventure). But, besides the genre, another problem is that the game is OLD (1993) and feels like it. The interface is bad, the graphics are terrible, and the sound is horrible. Surprisingly, it also seems to load and run a bit slowly on a modern machine (I…

    1.2 h played when written. 15 found it helpful.

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