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A Tale of Caos: Overture cover art

A Tale of Caos: Overture

ExperaGameStudio · Eli Daddio · 2016-12-21

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Dec 21, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 21, 2016 (Mac)

An epic journey begins! Terry, a brilliant, messy girl, is beginning her greatest adventure, following her master, Albion McMaster, whose goals are quite dark and mysterious. With Heimlich, her mechanical owl and best friend, Terry will travel through amazing worlds and many unpredictable dangers!

72%
positive of 68 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 24,821 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.7k–4.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 68 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2017-12-21) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 11 of 21 observed days · $4.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320162026Week of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.892016-12-212026-10-022016-12-21 — best price $7.642017-01-25 — best price $8.992017-03-27 — best price $8.992017-07-05 — best price $8.992017-10-17 — best price $2.692017-12-09 — best price $8.992018-02-19 — best price $2.692018-07-02 — best price $0.892018-10-08 — best price $8.992018-12-14 — best price $8.992019-06-20 — best price $8.992019-11-01 — best price $8.992020-01-15 — best price $8.992020-06-23 — best price $8.992020-11-02 — best price $8.992021-02-15 — best price $8.992021-07-19 — best price $8.992021-12-13 — best price $8.992022-04-04 — best price $9.992022-07-18 — best price $9.992022-12-12 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-07-31 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-04-15 — best price $9.992024-09-02 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-04-07 — best price $9.992025-09-01 — best price $9.992026-02-16 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $3.992026-10-02 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Italian, French

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2017-05-11, latest 2017-08-08 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DFunnyIndiePuzzleFantasyAdventureStory RichSingleplayerPoint & ClickPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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