Tale of Tales' first project: an epic single-player exploration game inspired by the many versions of Sleeping Beauty. A young girl is trapped in a luxurious palace surrounded by a thick forest. Everyone in the palace is asleep. Assisted by a Wicked Fairy out for revenge, eight unworthy princes have penetrated the forest and disrupted the magic that once protected the sleeping court. The spell is fading, the branches are growing, the palace walls are crumbling.
Conceived as peaceful, playful, non-linear interaction with a continuously evolving world and a mysterious autonomous character, 8 was never finished. Its demos survive; its girl in a white dress returned in The Path, and the project itself in The Book of 8, a later re-vision.