Chicory: A Colorful Tale

 PlayStation 5
User Score
6.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 36
  3. Negative: 6 out of 36

Review this game

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. Denvers
    Apr 24, 2022
    6
    Chicory: A Colorful Tale is an okay coloring book with some Zelda-like elements that just fall flat in my opinion. This game offers nothing particularly unique, and without the coloring mechanic, this game would be written off completely. Unfortunately, I don't like to color very much.
  2. Invidious25
    Apr 1, 2022
    6
    Chicory A Colorful Tale (6/10 Zelda Light): Chicory a Colorful Quest provides an interesting brush/coloring use gameplay mechanic that doesn’t ever really get a chance to shine. The brush is typically used in one or two specific ways per zone to solve various area puzzles. I found the game worked best when traversing through these multiple puzzle based mini zones involved in progressingChicory A Colorful Tale (6/10 Zelda Light): Chicory a Colorful Quest provides an interesting brush/coloring use gameplay mechanic that doesn’t ever really get a chance to shine. The brush is typically used in one or two specific ways per zone to solve various area puzzles. I found the game worked best when traversing through these multiple puzzle based mini zones involved in progressing the main story. My most memorable moment was realizing that a connect the line-based zone puzzle was more complicated than I originally thought. The bosses typically located at the end of these puzzle zones were all bland and mostly unfun. Use of the brush mechanic to fight bosses always devolved into spamming color on the boss to do damage while dodging area hazards until you achieved victory. Outside of these puzzle areas, the game is packed full of mini activities most of which are not very fun. These include furniture collection and decoration, mail delivery, clothes hunting, kid finding, and art school drawing classes. The story itself is forgettable, but the characters that inhabit the world are for the most part interesting and worth interacting with. Although, a few instances with jarring, out of place conversations drawing real world parallelism brought me out of Chicory’s world. Overall, I wish the game used the brush/coloring mechanics in more interesting ways both in the world puzzles and the boss encounters.… Expand
  3. Ajglitch
    Nov 7, 2021
    5
    Groan, why didn’t I read more reviews. Simplistic so alright for children but to compare this to the Zelda franchise is comparing hot dogs and filet mignon. Gave it 5 for effort and recommended for 5-10 year olds that like to colour.

Awards & Rankings

12
#12 Best PlayStation 5 Game of 2021
83
#83 Most Discussed PlayStation 5 Game of 2021

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Pure Playstation
    Jul 13, 2021
    90
    Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a beautiful adventure where it’s your job to splash life back into this colourless world with the help of your magical paintbrush. You may not be the next Van Gogh or Picasso, but you will have a great time exploring what this land has to offer. With an endearing protagonist and a fantastic cast of characters, this experience will make you profoundly rethink art and mental wellness.
    Read full review
  2. PlayStation Country
    Jul 12, 2021
    90
    Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a frequent delight. It’s probably one of the better games we’ve played this year. This from an indie. Forget Ratchet and Clank, fun though it is. Chicory is possibly our favourite game this year.
    Read full review
  3. VideoGamer
    Jul 6, 2021
    80
    Chicory: A Colorful Tale is bound to the template set forth by The Legend of Zelda, but, rather than offering reflexive glibness, or inking the affair with irony, its critique wraps warmly around its subject, like a scarf.
    Read full review
See all critic reviews »