Cleo - a pirate's tale

Cleo - a pirate's tale

Released Dec 2021

Cleo is a solo-developed, top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.

98% positive · 798 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Steam $14.99
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Evaluation

Cleo - a pirate's tale is a solo-developed, linear pixel-art adventure game that launched on December 12, 2021. The store description emphasizes its linear story structure, and the game is described as a finished, self-contained experience inspired by classic LucasArts adventure games. The only DLC — a Deluxe Content pack — was released on the same day as the base game, indicating it was a launch-day bonus rather than post-launch content development. There are no unreleased DLC entries, no developer announcements of upcoming content, no roadmap, and no post-launch news posts indicating ongoing updates. The game launched as a complete product and shows no signals of planned or ongoing content additions.
Evidence
Only one DLC exists — a Deluxe Content pack released on the same day as the base game. No unreleased DLC listed.
dlc listing · Dec 12, 2021 source content shipped
high
Game is described as a linear story adventure, solo-developed, with a fixed narrative structure inspired by classic adventure games — no mention of post-launch content, updates, or additional content plans.
description · Dec 12, 2021 source development ending
medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Christoph Schultz
Achievements
24
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

„Cleo - a pirate’s tale“ is a Solo Developed Retro Pixel Art Pirate Adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.

THE STORY:

„What is the most important part of a story?“

Cleo is a 14 year old cynical girl, living a repetitive life with her father in a bar. She knows everything about the epic adventures of pirate legend Captain Cabeca, but in her everyday life, she is just surrounded by boring fishermen and unsuccessful pirates, hanging around at the counter.

But when Cleo finds a strange pirate-logbook and sees a ghost, who gives her a mysterious hint, her boring life is about to get turned upside down. She is thrown into a dangerous adventure and finds herself in a world of lies, deceit, greed and bad breath - the world of pirates - and most of them are looking for the same thing:

THE TREASURE OF ETERNAL MEMORY.

KRAKEN FODDER:

"Kraken Fodder" is a mini game inside the game.

It is a card and dice game, which is taken pretty seriously among fishermen and pirates. One round takes about 5 minutes and the game is about destroying your opponents card deck with canon balls. HAHAHAR!

Throughout the game, Cleo has to play this card game against a few NPCs.

The game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in 2020 and was released late 2021 with full voice acting in English and German.

ARRRGH!

Last evaluated Jun 24, 2026
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