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.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.7 / 10
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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PlayStation 5AI review
AI reviews are subjective assessments, not player ratings. See each review for its evidence and limitations.Published date:
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.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Changing environments and sandbox experiments reward curiosity. | Reviewed | 7.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Construction experiments turn structural imagination into problem solving. | Reviewed | 8.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Dioramas and music support concentration, though dialogue can intrude. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Launch crashes meaningfully disrupt the construction process. | Reviewed | 5.8 / 10 | Not provided |
Review sources
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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
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Puzzle · Primary genre
- Tags
- 3D GraphicsStory-drivenPuzzle SolvingThird PersonSolo-friendlySlow BurnMain Story 10–20 HoursInvestigationExplorationLinear Levels
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Top-down
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideOct 12, 2022
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