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A Plague Tale: Innocence cover art

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Asobo Studio · Focus Entertainment · 2019-05-14

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 06, 2021 (PlayStation 5), May 14, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 14, 2019 (Xbox One), Jul 06, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), May 14, 2019 (PlayStation 4)

Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history.

A Plague Tale: Innocence is an Action, Adventure game released in 2019, priced at $39.99, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 72465 reviews).

196
playing now
93%
positive of 73k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
critic score (15 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (793 ratings)
25
Nexus mods (23k downloads)
4.37★
PlayStation Store rating (43,678 ratings)
82/100
opencritic · strong · 81% recommend · from 172 critics
13h
to beat · rushed 8.5h · completionist 13h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$39.99
steam price (US)

196 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 02:00 UTC (census sample)

A Plague Tale: Innocence is an action-adventure stealth game developed by Asobo Studio and published by Focus Home Interactive. It is the first installment in the A Plague Tale series. The game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in May 2019. It was made available on the cloud-based service Amazon Luna in November 2020. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of the game were released in July 2021, alongside a cloud version for the Nintendo Switch.

Trailer

A Plague Tale: Innocence trailer thumbnail

A Plague Tale: Innocence - Launch Trailer | PS4

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 196 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6,650 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~831/week).
  • · Review velocity up 119% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 28,023 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8M–4.4M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 73,381 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99-90%
GOG$3.99-90%
Humble Store$7.99-80%
Steam$17.49-75%
Microsoft Store$39.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 146 of 194 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.7k2.7k20192026Week of 2019-05-01: 1,946 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 870 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 887 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 456 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 345 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1,779 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1,845 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1,824 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 127 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2,700 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 189 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 834 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1,281 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1,580 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 99 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1,184 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2,608 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 178 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 917 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1,071 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 585 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 714 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 800 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 736 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 580 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 387 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1,095 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 819 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 629 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1,110 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 647 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 863 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 497 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 539 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1,155 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 695 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 543 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 310 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 362 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 318 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 750 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 932 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 602 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 722 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 672 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 606 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 717 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 648 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 902 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 436 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 690 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 440 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 611 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 438 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 434 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 339 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 462 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 528 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 593 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 441 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 304 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 284 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 352 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 273 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 309 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 538 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 367 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 309 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 400 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 349 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 333 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 312 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 345 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 467 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 260 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 335 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 583 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,026 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 223 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 976 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 99 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1,268 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 133 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 308 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 33 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

9741902026-09-16 04:00 — 404 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 557 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 798 players2026-09-20 02:00 — 470 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 407 players2026-09-22 18:00 — 632 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 305 players2026-09-25 09:00 — 324 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 656 players2026-09-28 00:00 — 363 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 195 players2026-09-30 15:00 — 405 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 241 players2026-10-03 06:00 — 312 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 838 players2026-10-05 21:00 — 380 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 218 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 454 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 469 players2026-10-11 03:00 — 293 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 302 players2026-10-13 19:00 — 450 players2026-10-15 02:00 — 196 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.4k115May 2019Aug 2026May 2019 — avg 1,362 · peak 3,803Aug 2019 — avg 115 · peak 289Nov 2019 — avg 250 · peak 846Feb 2020 — avg 792 · peak 4,030May 2020 — avg 525 · peak 2,196Aug 2020 — avg 283 · peak 740Nov 2020 — avg 212 · peak 617Feb 2021 — avg 197 · peak 562May 2021 — avg 252 · peak 780Aug 2021 — avg 197 · peak 449Nov 2021 — avg 187 · peak 467Feb 2022 — avg 221 · peak 635May 2022 — avg 133 · peak 340Aug 2022 — avg 270 · peak 767Nov 2022 — avg 341 · peak 796Feb 2023 — avg 435 · peak 1,557May 2023 — avg 200 · peak 559Aug 2023 — avg 194 · peak 539Nov 2023 — avg 186 · peak 422Feb 2024 — avg 168 · peak 425May 2024 — avg 152 · peak 361Aug 2024 — avg 183 · peak 470Nov 2024 — avg 151 · peak 408Feb 2025 — avg 137 · peak 317May 2025 — avg 126 · peak 296Aug 2025 — avg 149 · peak 379Nov 2025 — avg 194 · peak 459Feb 2026 — avg 160 · peak 427May 2026 — avg 128 · peak 400Aug 2026 — avg 463 · peak 1,149
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
1711712026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 171 new positive2026-09-21: 23 new negative2026-09-22: 39 new positive2026-09-22: 2 new negative2026-09-23: 30 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-24: 27 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new negative2026-09-25: 20 new positive2026-09-25: 6 new negative2026-09-26: 23 new positive2026-09-26: 4 new negative2026-09-27: 32 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 37 new positive2026-09-28: 5 new negative2026-09-29: 25 new positive2026-09-29: 5 new negative2026-09-30: 25 new positive2026-09-30: 2 new negative2026-10-01: 17 new positive2026-10-01: 1 new negative2026-10-02: 47 new positive2026-10-02: 5 new negative2026-10-03: 25 new positive2026-10-03: 3 new negative2026-10-04: 37 new positive2026-10-04: 2 new negative2026-10-05: 34 new positive2026-10-05: 4 new negative2026-10-06: 32 new positive2026-10-06: 2 new negative2026-10-07: 26 new positive2026-10-08: 23 new positive2026-10-08: 2 new negative2026-10-09: 21 new positive2026-10-09: 5 new negative2026-10-10: 31 new positive2026-10-10: 3 new negative2026-10-11: 40 new positive2026-10-11: 2 new negative2026-10-12: 12 new positive2026-10-13: 33 new positive2026-10-13: 5 new negative2026-10-14: 22 new positive2026-10-14: 2 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$44.99$0.002019-01-312026-10-152019-01-31 — best price $39.142019-08-02 — best price $38.652019-11-30 — best price $38.672020-02-10 — best price $20.792020-05-15 — best price $15.842020-07-22 — best price $39.882020-09-26 — best price $44.992020-11-16 — best price $44.992021-01-10 — best price $38.132021-03-06 — best price $44.992021-05-05 — best price $38.132021-07-07 — best price $37.792021-09-23 — best price $37.692021-12-03 — best price $34.392022-02-14 — best price $9.992022-04-30 — best price $8.992022-07-23 — best price $10.002022-11-16 — best price $7.992023-01-20 — best price $9.992023-04-11 — best price $34.392023-07-10 — best price $33.592023-09-21 — best price $8.992023-12-08 — best price $39.992024-03-11 — best price $39.992024-05-17 — best price $9.202024-08-06 — best price $8.472024-11-21 — best price $7.992025-02-21 — best price $9.392025-05-02 — best price $7.992025-08-14 — best price $7.992025-10-28 — best price $7.992026-01-22 — best price $9.202026-04-16 — best price $39.992026-07-08 — best price $39.992026-08-29 — best price $3.992026-10-03 — best price $3.992026-10-15 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3.9k3852026-05-29 — 385 pageviews2026-06-02 — 488 pageviews2026-06-06 — 520 pageviews2026-06-10 — 1,202 pageviews2026-06-14 — 916 pageviews2026-06-18 — 563 pageviews2026-06-22 — 530 pageviews2026-06-26 — 1,284 pageviews2026-06-30 — 827 pageviews2026-07-04 — 776 pageviews2026-07-08 — 777 pageviews2026-07-12 — 635 pageviews2026-07-16 — 571 pageviews2026-07-20 — 698 pageviews2026-07-24 — 827 pageviews2026-07-28 — 644 pageviews2026-08-01 — 556 pageviews2026-08-05 — 478 pageviews2026-08-09 — 640 pageviews2026-08-13 — 752 pageviews2026-08-17 — 826 pageviews2026-08-21 — 996 pageviews2026-08-25 — 1,186 pageviews2026-08-29 — 3,503 pageviews2026-09-02 — 2,919 pageviews2026-09-06 — 2,667 pageviews2026-09-10 — 1,423 pageviews2026-09-14 — 1,371 pageviews2026-09-18 — 1,959 pageviews2026-09-22 — 944 pageviews2026-09-26 — 871 pageviews2026-09-30 — 685 pageviews2026-10-04 — 876 pageviews2026-10-07 — 600 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

22902026-10-01 14:34 — 60 viewers2026-10-01 23:34 — 50 viewers2026-10-02 08:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-02 17:34 — 86 viewers2026-10-03 02:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-03 11:34 — 49 viewers2026-10-03 20:34 — 106 viewers2026-10-04 05:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-04 23:34 — 51 viewers2026-10-05 10:34 — 53 viewers2026-10-05 19:34 — 76 viewers2026-10-06 04:34 — 40 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 19 viewers2026-10-06 22:34 — 181 viewers2026-10-07 10:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-07 19:34 — 116 viewers2026-10-08 04:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-08 13:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-08 22:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 74 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-10 16:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-11 01:34 — 68 viewers2026-10-11 12:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-11 21:34 — 102 viewers2026-10-12 06:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-12 15:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-13 00:34 — 44 viewers2026-10-13 11:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-13 20:34 — 112 viewers2026-10-14 05:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-14 14:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-14 23:34 — 48 viewers2026-10-15 02:34 — 15 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
82.2%
earned "The de Rune Legacy"
41.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudRemote Play on Phone1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Korean…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-05-13 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)45,12715%35
PS5 (PlayStation)43,06344%36
Steam (Steam)28,76519%35
PS4 (PlayStation)27,80949%36
Windows (Xbox)7,38315%35

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

DarkActionHorrorStealthViolentMedievalAdventureEmotionalHistoricalStory Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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