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Lucky's Tale cover art

Lucky's Tale

Playful Corp. · 2021-12-09

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Virtual Reality

Releases: Nov 18, 2021 (Meta Quest 2), Apr 07, 2022 (PlayStation VR), Mar 28, 2016 (Oculus VR), Mar 28, 2016 (Oculus Rift), Dec 09, 2021 (SteamVR)

Virtual reality’s original mascot is back! Lucky Swiftail is a brave fox on a quest to save his best friend Piggy from the monstrously tentacled Glorp. Become a hero and save the day in the groundbreaking game that launched a beloved franchise, now remastered for modern VR headsets!

90%
positive of 79 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Lucky's Tale is a 2016 platform game developed and published by American studio Playful Studios and released in 2016 as a launch title and pack-in game for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. A sequel without VR support titled Super Lucky's Tale was released worldwide in November 2017. A remastered version of the game was released for Oculus Quest 2 and PCVR headsets via Steam in 2021, featuring improvements to the game's graphics, audio and movement, as well as replacing Lucky's character model with the one from New Super Lucky's Tale. A PlayStation VR version was released on April 7, 2022.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 61% of 15,141 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 79 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Humble Store (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$0.002018-09-202025-12-042018-09-20 — best price $0.002023-05-03 — best price $19.992023-06-23 — best price $5.992023-06-29 — best price $19.992023-09-01 — best price $5.992023-09-05 — best price $19.992023-11-17 — best price $5.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992023-12-08 — best price $5.992023-12-15 — best price $19.992023-12-25 — best price $5.992024-01-01 — best price $19.992024-03-14 — best price $4.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-04-25 — best price $4.992024-05-02 — best price $19.992024-06-20 — best price $4.992024-07-04 — best price $19.992024-08-16 — best price $5.992024-08-25 — best price $19.992024-09-09 — best price $6.992024-09-16 — best price $19.992024-10-21 — best price $5.992024-10-28 — best price $19.992024-12-05 — best price $4.992024-12-12 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $3.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-01-23 — best price $4.992025-02-10 — best price $19.992025-03-06 — best price $5.992025-03-13 — best price $19.992025-06-17 — best price $4.992025-06-24 — best price $19.992025-08-20 — best price $5.992025-08-27 — best price $19.992025-10-16 — best price $3.992025-10-23 — best price $19.992025-11-20 — best price $4.992025-12-04 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

3DVR6DOFCuteRetroActionCartoonyColorfulAdventurePlatformer

Census log

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

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