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Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime cover art

Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime

Spiritus Games · 2022-11-10

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureIndieRPGEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 10, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cross blades with space knights in this epic physics-based roguelike where space-age and medieval combat collide. Die often, upgrade, and battle your way across the galaxy, defeating rival ships in methodical skirmishes on a quest to save your kingdom from destruction!

85%
positive of 163 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$14.99
steam price (US)

Once upon a spacetime there was a young knight who went on a brave adventure... As your Royal father's last hope, battle, loot and upgrade your way through the galaxy. Engage space-knights in challenging close combat, explore a storybook-like retrofuturistic universe and save the kingdom from the dreadful Void Lords who stole the Sun.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (58 reviews).
  • · Top 56% of 12,678 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.3k–7.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 163 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.74 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
474720222026Week of 2022-11-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$9.742022-11-102026-06-162022-11-10 — best price $13.492022-12-15 — best price $13.492023-01-05 — best price $14.992023-01-31 — best price $14.992023-02-13 — best price $13.492023-03-06 — best price $13.492023-03-23 — best price $14.992023-04-27 — best price $13.492023-05-06 — best price $14.992023-05-27 — best price $14.992023-07-04 — best price $14.992023-07-17 — best price $14.992023-07-31 — best price $14.992023-08-21 — best price $11.992023-09-05 — best price $14.992023-09-26 — best price $14.992023-10-05 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $14.992023-12-13 — best price $11.992024-01-05 — best price $14.992024-05-13 — best price $11.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $10.492025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-08-26 — best price $10.492025-10-06 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $9.742026-06-16 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
84.9%
earned "I Know Kung Fu"
4.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DSpaceSci-fiPhysicsTop-DownDifficultAction RPGFuturisticSouls-likeSpaceships

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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