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Crossword City Chronicles cover art

Crossword City Chronicles

Trailblazer Games · 2021-01-25

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 25, 2021 (Mac), Jan 25, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Play as a 1950s reporter investigating crimes by using your word building skills to interview, interrogate, convince, deceive & debate your way to a solution! Draw letters tiles onto a rack, then place them on the board to make a word that connects with those already placed to advance the plot.

Crossword City Chronicles is a Casual and Indie game released in 2021, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed sentiment across 19 reviews.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
42%
positive of 19 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Top 75% of 29,944 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-03

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2022-02-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320212024Week of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 17:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$2.492021-01-252024-12-042021-01-25 — best price $3.992021-02-01 — best price $4.992021-06-24 — best price $2.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992021-11-24 — best price $2.992021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-02-03 — best price $2.492022-02-07 — best price $4.992022-11-22 — best price $2.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992022-12-22 — best price $2.992023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-02-20 — best price $2.992023-02-27 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $2.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-06-29 — best price $2.492023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $3.042023-11-28 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $2.492024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $2.492024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $2.492024-12-04 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
75.5%
earned "Case 1"
9.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, French

Player tags

2DCasualComedyPuzzleTypingMysteryCartoonySpellingDetectiveWord Game

Census log

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

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