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Looper Tactics

Inkstone Atelier · 2P Games · 2023-08-28

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 28, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Welcome again, wandering soul. Will this be the time of your success? Watch your steps as you advance in this roguelike-deck builder and engage in auto-battler card encounters of increasing difficulty. Get stronger in each battle, rise from the ashes, and break free from endless reincarnation!

Looper Tactics is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG game released in 2023, priced at $5.49, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (89% of 522 reviews).

89%
positive of 528 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.49
steam price (US)

Ages ago, mages and wisemen of the ancient Empire created a whole world, inhabited it with artificial souls, and put it within a box -- like a toy created for the delight of capricious gods. Eventually, they realized this world could bring their own destruction, wreaking havoc on the fabric of reality itself, so they sealed this world away in an eternal cycle of death and resurrection. You are determined to stop this cycle, to break away and gain freedom for you and your world -- even if that means you have to die uncountable times until you achieve it…(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (141 reviews).
  • · Top 19% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–24k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 528 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.67 at Fanatical (2026-08-03) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $10.99 · on sale 46 of 66 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
13113120232026Week of 2023-08-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$10.99$4.672023-08-282026-08-212023-08-28 — best price $9.892023-12-11 — best price $9.892024-01-30 — best price $9.342024-03-27 — best price $10.992024-05-06 — best price $9.122024-05-31 — best price $8.682024-07-11 — best price $10.992024-08-12 — best price $10.992024-09-30 — best price $6.592024-11-02 — best price $8.682024-11-24 — best price $8.072024-12-14 — best price $8.072025-01-05 — best price $10.992025-02-03 — best price $8.682025-03-13 — best price $7.692025-04-13 — best price $8.072025-05-10 — best price $8.072025-06-03 — best price $8.072025-06-27 — best price $6.592025-07-24 — best price $8.072025-08-09 — best price $10.992025-09-01 — best price $7.142025-09-29 — best price $6.592025-10-24 — best price $8.682025-11-18 — best price $6.592025-12-07 — best price $10.992026-01-10 — best price $10.992026-02-09 — best price $4.722026-03-03 — best price $8.682026-03-27 — best price $8.072026-05-04 — best price $6.042026-05-29 — best price $10.992026-07-09 — best price $10.992026-08-03 — best price $4.672026-08-21 — best price $8.68
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
62.1%
earned "Main Quests"
20.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-02-02 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2109%28

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

Player tags

2DIndieCasualFantasyStrategyTabletopAdventureCard GameExplorationAuto Battler

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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