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Foretales

Alkemi · Dear Villagers · 2022-09-15

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Adventure

Modes: Single player

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.

8
playing now
85%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 28% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 24k–53k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,180 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

IndieGala$1.99-90%
GreenManGaming$2.46-88%
GOG$2.99-85%
Humble Store$2.99-85%
Steam$2.99-85%
GOG$2.99-85%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99-85%

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 133 of 174 observed days · $1.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1312026-08-11 19:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 11 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 6 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 7 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 10 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 13 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.552022-09-152026-08-302022-09-15 — 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 $1.992026-08-30 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

27602026-05-31 — 2 pageviews2026-06-03 — 5 pageviews2026-06-06 — 2 pageviews2026-06-09 — 2 pageviews2026-06-12 — 6 pageviews2026-06-15 — 5 pageviews2026-06-18 — 3 pageviews2026-06-21 — 4 pageviews2026-06-24 — 1 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-06-30 — 6 pageviews2026-07-03 — 13 pageviews2026-07-06 — 2 pageviews2026-07-09 — 1 pageviews2026-07-12 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 7 pageviews2026-07-18 — 24 pageviews2026-07-21 — 12 pageviews2026-07-24 — 274 pageviews2026-07-27 — 102 pageviews2026-07-30 — 55 pageviews2026-08-02 — 16 pageviews2026-08-05 — 13 pageviews2026-08-08 — 12 pageviews2026-08-11 — 9 pageviews2026-08-14 — 14 pageviews2026-08-17 — 8 pageviews2026-08-20 — 12 pageviews2026-08-23 — 8 pageviews2026-08-26 — 7 pageviews2026-08-28 — 9 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

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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