The IndieBeat: Tick Tock is a fairy tale puzzler that takes two to solve

Tick Tock is a surreal mystery game where time is of the essence. Its 2D hand-drawn world borrows from 1930s Denmark, but with a magic realist twist. Two players must work together to solve puzzles and unravel a story about two sisters, Amalie and Lærke, who have somehow learned how to manipulate time to grant themselves longer lives. It’s the debut game for Other Tales Interactive, and look for it in Q4 for PC and mobile devices.

The studio is Mira Dorthé and Tanja Tankred, who met while they were both university students. The duo drew inspiration from myriad sources while coming up with the idea for Tick Tock. Cyan, Inc.’s classic mystery adventure Myst influenced its atmosphere; Steel Crate Games’ Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes led them to experiment with centering the gameplay on player cooperation; and Simogo’s Year Walk encouraged them to draw on their Scandinavian roots. Dorthé is Swedish and Tankred is Danish, and they decided to base the game on Danish history.