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City Tales - Medieval Era

Irregular Shapes · Firesquid · 2026-01-29

SteamGOG

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 22, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!

90%
positive of 612 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$22.99
steam price (US)
City Tales - Medieval Era is a medieval city-building game that allows players to shape vast cities beyond a traditional grid layout. The game emphasizes organic building systems and detailed mechanics. Players can manage resources, plan districts for their citizens' needs, and assist companions in their tales, creating a thriving medieval realm filled with life and hope.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (84 reviews).
  • · Top 31% of 19,517 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–28k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 612 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

IndieGala$11.49-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $11.49 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
95.3%
earned "To build a home"
15%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3969%47

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

Player tags

3DLogicEconomyBuildingMedievalRelaxingTop-DownNarrationManagementSimulation

Census log

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

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