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Death Tales

Arcade Distillery · 2020-10-01

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jan 06, 2021 (PlayStation Vita), Oct 01, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 03, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 23, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Feb 23, 2021 (PlayStation 4)

Play as a new reaper, completing quests, collecting spells, and gathering equipment to fight through hordes of enemies in this grim but whimsical 2D adventure!

Death Tales is a $9.99 Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2020, with Mostly Positive reviews from 73% of 51 reviews and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
73%
positive of 51 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3.61★
PlayStation Store rating (101 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

"For as long as she can remember, Death has worked tirelessly to take the lives and souls of humans. Constantly ending the lives of innocents and corrupt alike began to take its toll on her and she soon grew lonely and depressed. Eventually, she fell in love with a mortal man. After much debate with her sisters, she chose to disobey them and granted her lover immortality and in doing so, created the first Reaper. His newfound immortality and thirst for power corrupted him to the core and he soon left her. Death, heartbroken, was too devastated to continue her task. She withdrew from the world(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 86% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (14 reviews).
  • · Top 51% of 27,606 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.0k–2.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 51 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2026-01-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220202026Week of 2020-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.892020-10-012026-03-262020-10-01 — best price $5.992020-10-08 — best price $9.992020-10-23 — best price $4.992020-11-03 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $5.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $5.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-02-11 — best price $4.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-03-22 — best price $4.992021-03-29 — best price $9.992026-01-03 — best price $0.892026-01-10 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
34%
earned "Terrible Parent"
8.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGCo-opIndieActionColorfulNarrationAction RPGPlatformerLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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