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Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief cover art

Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief

The House of Fables · Artifex Mundi · 2016-01-07

Steam

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 07, 2016 (Linux), Jan 07, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 07, 2016 (Mac)

Discover the truth behind the myth and save the children!

Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief is an Adventure, Casual game released in 2016, estimated to have 50,000 .. 100,000 owners, priced at $14.99, with Mixed (66% of 386 reviews).

0
playing now
66%
positive of 386 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 28,889 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 9.7k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 386 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2021-10-28) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162026Week of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 4 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.992016-01-072026-07-092016-01-07 — best price $5.992016-03-28 — best price $9.992016-07-15 — best price $2.992016-10-17 — best price $9.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-01-10 — best price $9.992017-06-22 — best price $2.992017-07-12 — best price $2.992017-07-17 — best price $2.992017-07-31 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $2.992018-02-19 — best price $9.992018-10-01 — best price $3.992018-11-28 — best price $9.992019-02-18 — best price $9.992019-06-25 — best price $2.992019-11-04 — best price $9.992020-01-23 — best price $2.992020-04-27 — best price $9.992020-07-20 — best price $2.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $2.992021-03-22 — best price $9.992021-11-24 — best price $0.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-06-24 — best price $0.992022-12-12 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $1.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-11-07 — best price $14.992024-03-14 — best price $3.742024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $3.742025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $1.492025-12-17 — best price $14.992026-03-04 — best price $1.492026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
48.8%
earned "Townsman "
42.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,56360%17

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

Player tags

2DIndieCasualHorrorPuzzleFantasyMysteryAdventureStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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