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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!

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 45% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
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 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 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).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

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

Player tags

2DIndieCasualHorrorPuzzleFantasyMysteryAdventureStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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