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Chronicles of Mystery - The Tree of Life cover art

Chronicles of Mystery - The Tree of Life

City Interactive S.A. · 2018-07-13

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 10, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Find the legendary Tree of Life, which grants immortality to whoever tastes it’s fruits. Your search will lead you across the channels of Venice, through the dark alleys of Cairo and further into the unknown. Chased by ruthless assassins, you will have to solve ancient riddles and face a power that eludes the rules of logic.

75%
positive of 73 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)
Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life is the second game in the series of adventure games for PC, after Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual. The game was developed and published by City Interactive in 2009.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 24,053 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.4k copies

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

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.77-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.77 at Fanatical (2025-04-14) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 58 of 82 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220192026Week of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.95$0.772015-01-012026-10-012015-01-01 — best price $9.982017-08-11 — best price $19.952018-07-13 — best price $3.992018-11-26 — best price $4.992019-03-25 — best price $4.992019-08-26 — best price $1.002019-12-23 — best price $4.992020-04-13 — best price $1.002020-07-27 — best price $1.252020-10-12 — best price $4.992020-12-01 — best price $4.992021-01-21 — best price $1.162021-03-21 — best price $3.662021-06-14 — best price $1.502021-08-23 — best price $1.392021-11-11 — best price $4.992022-01-19 — best price $4.992022-03-05 — best price $4.992022-05-07 — best price $4.992022-07-01 — best price $4.992022-08-22 — best price $1.492022-11-16 — best price $3.662023-01-10 — best price $1.952023-03-28 — best price $4.482023-06-05 — best price $1.742023-08-07 — best price $1.742023-11-13 — best price $4.992024-01-22 — best price $1.742024-04-22 — best price $1.652024-07-31 — best price $4.992024-12-20 — best price $0.992025-05-08 — best price $4.992025-09-15 — best price $0.842025-12-09 — best price $0.952026-02-01 — best price $4.992026-04-13 — best price $0.842026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-09-08 — best price $0.792026-10-01 — best price $0.77
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-07-05 — 4 pageviews2026-07-08 — 10 pageviews2026-07-11 — 4 pageviews2026-07-14 — 4 pageviews2026-07-17 — 1 pageviews2026-07-20 — 10 pageviews2026-07-23 — 4 pageviews2026-07-26 — 3 pageviews2026-07-29 — 4 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-04 — 3 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 1 pageviews2026-08-13 — 6 pageviews2026-08-16 — 12 pageviews2026-08-19 — 3 pageviews2026-08-22 — 4 pageviews2026-08-25 — 2 pageviews2026-08-28 — 5 pageviews2026-08-31 — 7 pageviews2026-09-03 — 4 pageviews2026-09-06 — 8 pageviews2026-09-09 — 3 pageviews2026-09-12 — 1 pageviews2026-09-15 — 2 pageviews2026-09-18 — 9 pageviews2026-09-21 — 5 pageviews2026-09-24 — 2 pageviews2026-09-27 — 1 pageviews2026-09-30 — 4 pageviews2026-10-01 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Player tags

PuzzleAdventurePoint & ClickFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.