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Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector's Edition cover art

Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector's Edition

Blue Tea Games · BFG Entertainment · 2016-03-21

Steam

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 21, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Beware of the purple tide!

Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide Collector's Edition is a 2016 Adventure Casual game priced at $19.99, estimated to have 20,000 .. 50,000 owners, with a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 64 reviews).

0
playing now
91%
positive of 64 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 29,175 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 64 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2022-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 15 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320162026Week of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-16 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 00:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-15 00:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
10Mar 2016Sep 2022Mar 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Sep 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 5Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Dec 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Feb 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2020 — avg 0 · peak 4Oct 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Dec 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$2.992016-03-212026-07-252016-03-21 — best price $12.992016-11-19 — best price $9.992017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-01-03 — best price $13.992018-04-09 — best price $6.992018-06-22 — best price $4.992018-08-30 — best price $6.992018-10-26 — best price $6.992019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-03-11 — best price $13.992019-06-28 — best price $6.992019-08-12 — best price $13.992019-12-07 — best price $13.992020-02-10 — best price $4.492020-06-25 — best price $3.992020-11-25 — best price $3.992021-10-28 — best price $4.492022-04-25 — best price $10.492022-11-22 — best price $3.492023-01-06 — best price $13.992023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-04-24 — best price $9.992023-08-10 — best price $6.992023-10-06 — best price $10.492023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-03-11 — best price $6.292024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-01-06 — best price $13.992025-03-26 — best price $13.992025-07-03 — best price $6.992025-09-23 — best price $13.992025-11-24 — best price $5.592026-01-13 — best price $19.992026-06-16 — best price $19.982026-07-25 — best price $19.98
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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Player tags

CasualAdventureHidden Object

Census log

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

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