Starting July 2nd, 2015 Daedalic Entertainment and developer Dane Krams will unleash Anna’s Quest upon the digital gaming world. The grim, colorful, humorous and action-packed point-and-click adventure game made a brief appearance at this year’s E3 with a brand new trailer and it sets the game up for release on Steam and GOG.com this July.

The story follows a young girl named Anna who gets captured by a wicked witch. The witch experiments on Anna hoping to utilize powers that Anna is endowed with for her own ends. However, Anna escapes using her newfound telekinetic abilities and is accompanied by a young boy named Ted who has been turned into a teddy bear.

As mentioned in the press release…

“Together with Ted and her new impressive ability Anna is off for an adventure in the haunting world of Grimm’s fairy-tales and European folklore. Witches, ghosts, trolls and cursed princesses: no matter if you have to save them or outsmart them – they all play their part in Anna’s quest to find a cure for her grandfather.”

You can see how the game plays out in the gameplay trailer below.

Annas Quest E3 Official Trailer [ENG] Witches, ghosts, trolls and cursed princesses – July 2015 will be the season of a hauntingly beautiful adventure: Anna’s Quest. In a land far, far away lives a brave young girl called Anna. She lives a peaceful life in the forest with her grandfather, until a mysterious illness befalls him.

While graphically this is no Cuphead, it does have its own little kind of charm to it. The setting and themes are centered around the Grimm fairy tales as well as introducing gamers into the sometimes forgotten and mystic European folklore of old. It’s sometimes easy for many American gaming journalists to forget that sometimes Europeans have historic culture as well.

The press release also makes it known that the game isn’t just about Anna being a damsel in distress, but that she’s actually set about helping various other creatures, monsters and adventurers along the way…

“Classic point & click adventure gameplay, a good deal of black humor and a fantastic story set in a beautifully dark fairy-tale world; the game’s designer Dane Krams managed to cook all this into a whimsical adventure-experience of the finest kind. Almost each mythical creature has their own story in Anna’s world and can help her on her quest – or actually needs Anna’s help.”

We’ve been seeing more and more of these games lately, with titles like Jenny LeClue, Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora and Lilly Looking Through exercising their own unique art-style and stories centered around female protagonists. It’s such a shame these games rarely get talked about much in the press circles unless there’s cronyism involved or a sex scandal about.

Anyway, Anna’s Quest is due for release on July 2nd in just two week’s time. You can learn more about the game before it lands on Steam or GOG.com by heading on over to the official website.