How to play Fairy Tale Expedition

You step into a book of fairy tales and travel on, bringing color back to stories that ink has drained. Scenes from well-known fairy tales such as Cinderella join up side by side, and when the color comes back, the characters start to move and the story goes on.

Getting started

1. Open itJust open it in the browser. Nothing to install and no account to create.
2. Choose a storyThe first time, the first story starts straight away. Taking a story to the end opens the next story on the bookshelf. Any open story can be chosen from the bookshelf again and again.
3. Flick your companionsPull back a companion resting on the left of the screen with a finger and let go: it flies off the opposite way, and color comes back wherever it passes.

What is on the screen

A long story path slowly scrolls to the right. A strip at the bottom shows the companions' cards and the score, and narration subtitles appear at the top. The characters speak in bubbles above their heads, and the story moves on without tapping. There is no flashing and no screen shaking.

What fingers do

Pulling back a companion and letting go is all it takes. Each companion has its own brush width and way of flying, and painting a lot brings out that companion's special move. At the high points of a story the screen stops, and bringing color back to the characters or objects lets it go on. Against the boss, watch for the signal and hit at the right moment. Being hit by an enemy's pellets only means a short rest - there is no losing and no game over.

What is inside

• Books of world fairy tales such as Cinderella (taking a story to the end opens the next one)
• The more a companion paints, the higher its level goes and it learns new special moves
• The music along the way uses tracks distributed by BGMer

• Action game
• World fairy tales
• Flick to paint
• For school-age children
• No game over
• Clear to open the next story

Fairy Tale Expedition

• Cinderella
• The Three Little Pigs
• The Enormous Turnip
• Hats for the Stone Friends
• The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
• The Bremen Town Musicians
• Ratoncito Pérez
• The Party in the Sky
• The Tiger and the Persimmon

What this game does not have

• Ads and purchasesNothing to tap by mistake that takes you to another site.
• Input fieldsNo name or email address is asked for, and there is no account to create.
• Game overThere is no point where you get stuck and cannot go on. Children can stop whenever they have had enough.

Before you start

• Only finished stories are kept on the deviceOnly the stories taken to the end and a language you chose are kept on the device. Scores and levels are not kept, nor are names or play time.
• Plays without a connectionOnce it has loaded, it opens even in airplane mode. Because of the pictures and music, the first time it opens it uses quite a lot of data (tens of MB), so a place with Wi-Fi is recommended.
• Languages14 languages (Japanese, English, Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Indonesian, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Romanian). At first it opens in the language of the device.

Playing without a connection (on a plane, in the car)

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• Ring the Dawn (ages 8 to 12) — A gamebook you read by picking choices: from a village caught in the "long night" that comes once in a hundred years, you set out to ring the bell of dawn
• Cog Racers (ages 5 to 9) — Choose parts to build your own car and race it on the 9 tracks of an island

Every game is on the Kids Games home page.