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Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink

Artifex Mundi · 2014-04-24

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 04, 2014 (Linux), Jan 22, 2016 (Xbox One), Nov 29, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Apr 17, 2014 (Android), Mar 04, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 04, 2014 (Mac)

Unburied secrets burn like wild steam – nothing is what it appears!

2
playing now
92%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 28% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 29k–69k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,157 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
60.7%
earned "FIRST OF MANY"
52.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)7,46185%19
Steam (Steam)4,54146%19
Xbox One (Xbox)2,38155%18

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

Player tags

2DIndieCasualHorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureSteampunkAtmosphericSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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