Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth (German: Die Säulen der Erde) is a 2017 point-and-click adventure episodal video game by Daedalic Entertainment.

[3][4] The Pillars of the Earth follows the principles of a classic point-and-click adventure: the user controls one of three main characters as they travel across highly detailed backgrounds as the plot continues.

The player holds the left mouse button over objects or characters to bring up an interaction menu with "look", "talk", and "use" options.

In The Pillars of the Earth, primary in-game characters, based on those in the novel, include: Aliena, Cantor (voice acted by Ken Follett), Cuthbert, Earl Bartholomew, Jack, Martha, Philip, Richard, "Shovelmonk", Tom, Waleran, and William.

It is here in the snow-covered woods, near St-James-in-the-Forest, that Tom, his heavily pregnant wife Agnes, and their children, Alfred and Martha, stop to rest overnight.

We then see the aftermath of the death of Agnes, the abandonment and rescue of the newborn child, and the uniting of Tom's family with Ellen's.

Philip goes to Winchester to meet with Waleran, the Hamleighs, and Bishop Henry, all seeking the spoils of Shiring from King Stephen.

With the Hamleighs, he uncovers evidence of Waleran's duplicity at the bishop's palace, and negotiates a separate agreement for building resources.

Philip, accompanied by Aliena, meets the new earl, William, who demands an end to the priory's market, as Waleran continues to scheme and plot.

Aliena finds herself pregnant with Jack's child and leaves to search for him, and Alfred goes to Shiring to work on a rival cathedral.

The game picks up with a flashback scene of the White Ship disaster, then jumps to July 1142 as Aliena arrives in Normandy.

Philip, Jack, Aliena, and Richard then travel to Shiring to warn Waleran and William against interfering in the renovations at Kingsbridge.

Waleran, meanwhile, arrests Philip, and at the trial before Bishop Henry in the cathedral, all the various plot lines of the game are drawn together through Prior Remegius.

[6] The gameplay resembles similar point and click adventures released by Daedalic, such as The Whispered World, A New Beginning, and Deponia.

[13] It is available in eleven languages: Chinese (simplified and traditional), Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.

[15][17][18][19] Blake Hester from GameSpot praised the game's characters, unique visuals, and story development, but critiqued it for a lack of drama or tangible tension, a "snail-paced" narrative, and slow frame-rates and loading times on Xbox One.