To Be Or Not To Be
Discover sweet art as you play from some of the greatest and most attractive artists of Our Time, including Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Anthony Clark (Nedroid), Mike Krahulik (Penny Arcade), Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), Ethan Nicolle (Axe Cop), Andrew Hussie (MS Paint Adventures), Zach Weiner (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) and WAY more!
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* REVIEWS **
"Literally slapped my thigh" funny. "Spat water all over my iPad" funny. "Woke my girlfriend in the middle of the night" funny. Riotously, unrelentingly, brilliantly funny.
- Pocket Gamer
- 9/10
- Gold Award!
"Yes, it’s Shakespeare and yes, it’s easily my favorite gamebook that Tin Man has ever done."
- Pocket Tactics
- 5/5 stars
"...an idea that is, by most conventional literary standards, terrible, but pushed so far past terrible that it wraps around like a comet slingshotting around the sun and comes back as utterly brilliant."
- Time
"To Be Or Not To Be truly is one of the most purely-entertaining experiences of the year, because Ryan North manages to both live up to my expectations with his take on this literary classic, and also manage to go to places that I just did not expect."
- Touch Arcade
- 5/5 stars
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* FEATURES **
• Tiny Yorick skulls mark the choices Shakespeare took in his play!
• Play as Hamlet, Ophelia, and Hamlet Sr., each with their own unique adventures.
• Learn things, like the meaning of the word ‘pernicious’ and the origin of the phrase ‘Till death us do part’!
• Sensibly bring evil King Claudius to justice in a court of law! Or, stuff him into a cannon and then fire him into a wall! IT’S UP TO YOU.
• Travel through TIME! Fight PIRATES! Kill a guy IN A CHURCH (it’s totally okay, he’s a jerk!)!
• View the HAML-O-METER at the end of each story to see how well you stuck to the Bard’s vision!
To Be or Not To Be has been created using Tin Man Games’ enhanced Gamebook Adventures Engine featuring:
• Dyslexic friendly font support, to aid readers with dyslexia.
• Hidden achievements to find throughout the gamebook.
• Art you discover is unlocked in the art gallery. Find all the full colour images as you play!
• Specially composed soundtrack and sound effects.
Category : Adventure
Reviews (26)
Not quite my humor(quirky and self referential) and too little check points. Nice animations(though not really necessary in a interactive novel) with music and nice art style(much appreciated). Well made and probably worth a buy if you are into the kind of humor
I was looking for a funny text adventure game and this is perfect for me. I can see this is influenced by Monkey Island, which is my all time favorite video game. Please make more games like this.
Amazing game, needed something light hearted and funny. This game is just a lot of dark humor and everything i was hoping itd be.
This makes me laugh a lot! I don't think you'd need to be that familiar with the play to enjoy this but obviously helps. Extremely hilarious¡
THIS IS SO HILARIOUS. I've been honestly eyeing this game for quite some time now. Now that I've finaly bought it, I'm glad I really did. It's so quirky and I love it!
very silly. i loved it. ive been going through a rough period, but laughed so hard with this book lol
Pricey. But Good! Great writing! Helps if you know Shakespeare. Begin playing as Hamlet.
fun and addictive. very well written .
It was great when it worked. Now it doesn't.
Would buy over and over and over again! 6/5
If you loved the book, or if you wanted to read it but books don't do it for you, this game has it! All the pages are broken into digestible pieces ('paragraphs') and you get to touch the screen to see new ones. Then, when there is a path to be chosen, I forgot to mention there's a Shakespearean piano type melody playing. You can turn that off in "options" if you want but I like it so anyway, you can CHOOSE the path you want! I'm almost out of space for reviewing.
One of the most played games in my mobile library. There isn't a moment when I'm not smiling while playing. from the writing to the artwork, this is more than worth the purchase. I'm constantly pestering friends to buy it, haha.
I love Ryan North and just about every other artist/writer associated with this work. I have never awaited a collaboration so much!
Kept me entertained for some time. You can start over and get a different story so its playback value is great.
I loved this game. Thought about getting it on steam ever since it came out, but kept deciding not to. I'm glad I bought it for my phone. It is the greatest way to kill time or just read something ridiculous and hilarious!
It's bloody hilarious. The book is snarky as hell. The illustrations are done by fantastic webcomic artists (and are all properly credited with links in the gallery!). The branch points are silly as heck and are great fun to explore. My only small gripe is that it's not that easy to scroll back at certain points, but minor complaint. Also, the game takes full advantage of the digital medium to include achievements, music, and other neat extras. It 's a great buy whether you're a gamebook novice or veteran looking for a ROFLMAO inducing read.
This is Hamlet as it should have been written (if only Shakespeare had been a better writer and also enthusiastic about "choose your own adventure" books).
Had to uninstall tinder to get enough space on my phone for this. Best decision ever, more adventures and better dialogue options.
This book is pretty good, but it needs landscape mode like the other books from this developer have. Other than that, it's just what I'd expect from Tin Man Games!
This is the most hilarious game ever. It is even surprisingly clean...well, for Shakespeare. Get ready for a lot of twists and turns
This is the funniest tragic gamebook EVER.
Simply amazing. The graphics (when shown) were clearly made with excellent care from the creators.
Absolutely lovely take on the CYOA genre. Hilarious writing combined with smooth animations make this a great experience.
Strongly recommended that you read/watch the original version (Kenneth Branagh's film version is long, but easily accessible) before playing. However, there are tons of inside references to the original works, and the comedic timing of the adventure-choosing (as vast as it is) is spot-on and razor sharp. A must buy for high-school/college students that have studied Hamlet in the past!
This is awesome!!!!! Everything about it is quality. And its funny to boot. I'm sure if you actually had read hamlit. You would love this even more. Alas, I never have. But I still love it.
I love interactive fiction, and this hit the spot! I am immensely disappointed at the lack of other interactive singular story games by this developer, and I genuinely wish they would make more based on literary classics. Caesar would be a good one, or Henry VIII!