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Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson cover art

Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson

Ritual Studios · Klei Publishing · 2025-07-17

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 17, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 17, 2025 (Mac)

In this turn-based RPG, wield powerful legendary instruments, gather mighty riff attacks and save the land from Rick Riffson's devilish goons and musical hybrid monsters!

98%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
85/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
8h
to beat · rushed 7h · completionist 9h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)
Fretless – The Wrath of Riffson is a 2025 role-playing video game developed by Ritual Studios and published by Playdigious Originals. Its turn-based combat combines deck-building with timed rhythm game inputs. The player controls Rob, a musician who enters a Battle of the Bands while opposing Rick Riffson, the head of the exploitative Super Metal Records. The game was released for Windows on July 17, 2025.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 69 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity down 1% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (497 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 29k–66k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,458 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
49249220252026Week of 2025-07-17: 492 positiveWeek of 2025-07-17: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-24: 183 positiveWeek of 2025-07-24: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-31: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-07-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-07: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-08-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-14: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-08-21: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-08-21: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-28: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-09-04: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-09-11: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-25: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-02: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-16: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-10-23: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-06: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-15: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-12: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-02: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-14: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-16: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-20: 6 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$11.992025-07-172026-07-092025-07-17 — best price $13.492025-07-24 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $12.742025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $11.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-02-02 — best price $11.992026-02-09 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-04-09 — best price $11.992026-04-23 — best price $14.992026-06-11 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
97.4%
earned "Guitarist"
32.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)44014%22

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

Census log

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

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