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Foretales

Alkemi · Dear Villagers · 2022-09-15

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Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 15, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 15, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 23, 2026 (Android), Jul 23, 2026 (iOS)

Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.

Foretales is a 2022 Adventure game priced at $2.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (85% of 1188 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 100,000 .. 200,000.

8
playing now
85%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Foretales is a deck-building video game developed by Alkemi and published in 2023 by Dear Villagers for Windows and Switch. It is a digital tabletop game in which players attempt to avert a series of catastrophes.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 8 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 67 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (262 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 29,019 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 24k–53k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,188 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

IndieGala$1.99-90%
Steam$2.99-85%
WinGameStore$2.99-85%
GreenManGaming$3.00-85%
GOG$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at IndieGala Store (2025-06-03) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 164 of 200 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
23223220222026Week of 2022-09-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1402026-09-15 16:00 — 12 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 5 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 4 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 7 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 5 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 6 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 4 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 5 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 6 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 8 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 10 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2134Sep 2022Aug 2026Sep 2022 — avg 213 · peak 609Nov 2022 — avg 28 · peak 83Jan 2023 — avg 16 · peak 51Mar 2023 — avg 9 · peak 35May 2023 — avg 7 · peak 20Jul 2023 — avg 7 · peak 20Sep 2023 — avg 44 · peak 139Nov 2023 — avg 18 · peak 40Jan 2024 — avg 14 · peak 31Mar 2024 — avg 13 · peak 35May 2024 — avg 16 · peak 41Jul 2024 — avg 14 · peak 38Sep 2024 — avg 11 · peak 32Nov 2024 — avg 10 · peak 21Jan 2025 — avg 9 · peak 22Mar 2025 — avg 10 · peak 24May 2025 — avg 6 · peak 17Jul 2025 — avg 10 · peak 25Sep 2025 — avg 11 · peak 34Nov 2025 — avg 6 · peak 18Jan 2026 — avg 8 · peak 23Mar 2026 — avg 6 · peak 17May 2026 — avg 5 · peak 15Jul 2026 — avg 10 · peak 34Aug 2026 — avg 6 · peak 22
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$1.552022-09-152026-10-152022-09-15 — best price $15.142022-12-25 — best price $15.742023-02-16 — best price $15.992023-04-04 — best price $19.992023-05-16 — best price $15.742023-07-20 — best price $13.992023-08-22 — best price $15.742023-10-17 — best price $12.992023-12-02 — best price $19.992024-01-15 — best price $9.792024-02-24 — best price $19.992024-04-11 — best price $11.192024-06-19 — best price $8.992024-08-05 — best price $7.392024-09-16 — best price $6.592024-11-05 — best price $19.992024-12-05 — best price $3.952025-01-27 — best price $3.872025-03-01 — best price $19.992025-04-16 — best price $4.992025-05-27 — best price $19.992025-07-17 — best price $3.992025-08-25 — best price $3.002025-09-26 — best price $19.992025-11-03 — best price $2.592025-12-01 — best price $13.942026-01-07 — best price $1.992026-02-13 — best price $2.852026-03-18 — best price $3.002026-04-16 — best price $2.992026-05-19 — best price $2.992026-07-08 — best price $3.002026-07-31 — best price $1.972026-08-18 — best price $1.992026-09-02 — best price $2.992026-09-17 — best price $1.992026-10-02 — best price $2.992026-10-15 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

27402026-05-31 — 2 pageviews2026-06-04 — 6 pageviews2026-06-08 — 5 pageviews2026-06-12 — 6 pageviews2026-06-16 — 3 pageviews2026-06-20 — 1 pageviews2026-06-24 — 1 pageviews2026-06-28 — 2 pageviews2026-07-02 — 2 pageviews2026-07-06 — 2 pageviews2026-07-10 — 0 pageviews2026-07-14 — 2 pageviews2026-07-18 — 24 pageviews2026-07-22 — 21 pageviews2026-07-26 — 142 pageviews2026-07-30 — 55 pageviews2026-08-03 — 31 pageviews2026-08-07 — 7 pageviews2026-08-11 — 9 pageviews2026-08-15 — 8 pageviews2026-08-19 — 2 pageviews2026-08-23 — 8 pageviews2026-08-27 — 3 pageviews2026-08-31 — 8 pageviews2026-09-04 — 8 pageviews2026-09-08 — 7 pageviews2026-09-12 — 6 pageviews2026-09-16 — 3 pageviews2026-09-20 — 8 pageviews2026-09-24 — 6 pageviews2026-09-28 — 3 pageviews2026-10-02 — 4 pageviews2026-10-06 — 2 pageviews2026-10-09 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

41
achievements tracked
45%
earned "Caged tiger"
6.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2022-09-14, latest 2022-09-15 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,0323%41
Switch (Nintendo)220%0
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

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

Player tags

CombatFantasyTabletopAdventureCard GameNarrationBoard GameStory RichAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

Recent updates

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