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Halfling Dale 12+
Cozy interactive story
W Wizards
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Choose Your Own Adventure - but with halflings! Immerse yourself in an interactive story where you roleplay as a halfling in a peaceful village of food, fun, and festivals.
THE STORY
You're a halfling of respectable means, living a peaceful, happy life in the Dale. That is, until tragedy strikes! Your brother has burgled a precious heirloom, and run off with a dwarf, leaving your family name in tatters. Will you try to regain your respectability?
There's only one thing you must do; live your halfling life to the fullest! Enter the pie baking contest at the Harvest Festival, attend the fireworks display with your friends, warm your hands by the fire in your hole in winter, and dance the night away at the Spring Fair.
CUSTOMISE YOUR CHARACTER
What sort of halfling are you? Perhaps you're the hard-working and honest type, or a jolly mischief maker. You might be a gentlehalfling of superior tastes, though some are more a bumbling, good-natured sort. You could choose to be a bold halfling of the great outdoors; or the sensible one who's never late for dinner!
Live out your halfling fantasy with a variety of professions, hobbies, and attitudes to choose from.
TACKLE HALFLING DILEMMAS
Halfling life is full of important choices. Deal with your underhanded cousin when she steals your pie contest idea. Decide how far you're willing to go to get mushrooms for your dinner table. Save the fireworks display when a hedgehog goes missing amongst the rockets. And, most importantly, decide if you're going to eat strawberries & cream - or rhubarb crumble.
BUILD RELATIONSHIPS
Explore social life in the Dale, and build unique relationships with your fellow halflings. Find friendship, or love, or something else entirely.
Discover family with Mum and Ida. Make mischief with Benny. Make amends to old Wilibald Fairburrow or become important by associating with Mayor Goldworthy. Protect the Dale from The Outside with Garrance the Warden. Or just wash your hands of it all with "Batty" Patty.
MEMORABLE CHARACTER RECORDS
Never forget a story. Each finished playthrough creates a character record to immortalise your character, and all of their achievements.
CONTENT
- First chapter free.
- 10 potential routes, each allowing your character to explore a unique side of the Dale, as you try to regain your reputation.
- Discover stories of family, community, aspiration, friendship, love, and even secret adventure.
- 190,000 words of interactive story.
- 3 halfling festivals packed with events.
- 8 professions to choose from.
- 28 different choices to shape your backstory.
- 5 romanceable characters (plus a secret one).
- 28 endings.
- Written by Toni Owen-Blue
- Original art work.
- Plus much more.
What’s New
Version 1.1.1
Enjoy Halfling Dale's largest update yet! This update includes:
- Expanded endings, making each playthrough more unique and linked to the player's decisions.
- The 'All Unlockable Endings' page, allowing players to get clues on what other routes or halfling secrets they can find.
- New romance dialogues for Lily Goldworthy.
- New art added to the gallery.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Cozy choice-based handling game with romances
This game is a long choice-based game where you build a character who is a hobbit and live through a year or so of local hobbit life.
It seems built on the same general model as Choicescript games, where your choices influence your stats and relationships with delayed effects in later chapters.
However, the effects of your choices are pretty opaque. Unlike Choicescript games, there is no stats page that I could find, and many of the options you can pick from are very similar. On top of that, several chapters are built up as a 'win/loss' scenario where you either make the right choices and get a good result or just fail. When I played every commercial Choicescript game a few years ago, those were all common things that made games more frustrating.
On the other hand, the characters and setting here are fun. A lot is taken directly from Lord of the Rings, but the individual characters are all new. There is also a lot of branching, especially with romances. I did two playthroughs, one pursuing Patty the 'witch' and one pursuing Lily the mayor's daughter. The last 3 of the 7 chapters in these playthroughs were very different from each other.
Everything is pretty low-stakes. Someone steals a sword and runs away with it, but not you. The most stress you have to deal with is social judgment and a pie contest.
So, I'd recommend this to fans of 'coffee shop AU' or Stardew Valley. I liked it enough to play it twice, and the price I paid (I think $3.99?) was definitely appropriate for the size (a lot of such games are $10 to $20 now).
Developer Response ,
Hey Briarlock,
We’re glad you had such fun with the characters and romances. It was very important to us that Halfling Dale would be a relaxing experience, where you can sink into the small problems of halfling life. Like you say – everything is pretty low stakes (apart from the pie contest, which is high stakes as far as halflings are concerned).
You’re obviously a fan of choice games, and we really appreciate your feedback on the style and choice model, and glad that you enjoyed playing different routes.
Thanks for taking the time to leave us such a full review, we’re really happy you’ve shared your thoughts.
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Information
- Seller
- W Wizards
- Size
- 86.4 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Copyright
- © WYSIWYG Wizards
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Unlock all story & choices $3.99