Tunic is a game of secrets. Despite my best efforts, I wasn't able to discover many concrete details about what the game even was prior to the release of its Xbox demo--it looked like a Legend of Zelda-like starring a cute little fox. But after getting my hands on it, I discovered that Tunic's cute imagery belies a foreboding and tense atmosphere, as well as a compelling mystery at its core that will bring me back whenever the game fully launches.

As it turns out, the air of mystique surrounding what Tunic even is and what the game's story is about is all intentional. The game has been purposely marketed this way in hopes that players go into Tunic already thinking that there must be more to it than initially meets the eye.

"A really important part of playing the game that we want to impart to people is that feeling of mystery, is that feeling of being in a place where you don't belong, that feeling of taking a few tentative steps into this hostile place full of monsters and treasure, just knowing that there are cool things out there, but not knowing where to go first," designer Andrew Shouldice told me, following my time spent with the demo.