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LEGO Bricktales

LEGO Bricktales

LEGO Bricktales is a PlayStation 5 adventure game developed by ClockStone. It centers on puzzle, maze, or device solving, area and route exploration, and story, case, or mission progress, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.

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7.7 / 10
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About this game

LEGO Bricktales is a PlayStation 5 adventure game centered on puzzle, maze, or device solving, area and route exploration, and story, case, or mission progress. Locations, objectives, and clues gradually open the main chapters, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Theme, character expression, and environmental clues need to support exploration together, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that guidance, objective triggers, camera behavior, or dense text can create search and comprehension costs. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.

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7.7 / 10PlayStation 5

A genuine construction puzzle, undermined by launch instability.

Bricktales makes building itself the solution. A limited selection of pieces and fixed anchor points ask you to think about structure, test an idea and revise it when the result fails. That process rewards understanding rather than simply discovering a prescribed switch. Different miniature environments and sandbox opportunities give experimentation room to breathe, while colour and gentle music suit concentrated play. Dialogue sometimes delays the next interesting problem, however. More seriously, the cited PS5 launch review reports repeated hard crashes, an especially disruptive fault in a game about sustained trial and adjustment. The design remains appealing to patient construction-puzzle fans. Its technical assessment is tied to October 2022 evidence and should not be mistaken for a test of the current patch.

Strengths

  • Open construction and meaningful testing.
  • Attractive miniature settings.

Weaknesses

  • Occasionally intrusive dialogue.
  • Repeated crashes in the cited PS5 launch build.

Who it is for: Patient construction and physics-puzzle fans.

Play notes: Historical PS5 launch assessment; current patch stability is not asserted.

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Changing environments and sandbox experiments reward curiosity.

Reviewed7.6 / 10Not provided
Dimension

Construction experiments turn structural imagination into problem solving.

Reviewed8.4 / 10Not provided
Dimension

Dioramas and music support concentration, though dialogue can intrude.

Reviewed8.0 / 10Not provided
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Launch crashes meaningfully disrupt the construction process.

Reviewed5.8 / 10Not provided

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Core information

Developer
ClockStone
Publisher
Thunderful
Release date
Oct 12, 2022
Platforms
PlayStation 5
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
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Offline minimum players
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Offline maximum players
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Online minimum players
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Online maximum players
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Tags
3D GraphicsStory-drivenPuzzle SolvingThird PersonSolo-friendlySlow BurnMain Story 10–20 HoursInvestigationExplorationLinear Levels
Supported game languages
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Requires base game
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Standalone
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Age ratings
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Play modes
Single player
Perspectives
Top-down

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