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Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate® cover art

Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate®

Big Fish Games · BFG Entertainment · 2007-12-14

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Aug 19, 2013 (Android), Nov 07, 2007 (Mac), Nov 07, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 27, 2013 (iOS)

Madame Fate™, a mysterious fortune teller, has foreseen her own demise at midnight this very day. She has asked for your help in investigating each quirky carnival worker to determine their whereabouts at midnight.

Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate® is a $9.99 Casual game released in 2007, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mostly Positive sentiment across 103 reviews.

0
playing now
79%
positive of 103 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
14h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Mystery Case Files is a video game series originally developed by the internal studios of Big Fish Games. Sequels were then developed by Elephant Games between 2013 and 2014 and Eipix Entertainment between 2015 and 2019. The newest installments have been developed by GrandMA Studios since 2020. The Mystery Case Files series is known for its hidden object puzzles where, in order to progress through a game, the player plays the role of a Master Detective and must find a certain number of items hidden somewhere on a painted scene.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.1k–8.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 103 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.09 at Steam (2022-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 5 of 9 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320142026Week of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 4 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 5 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 5 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 8 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
40Jul 2012Jul 2026Jul 2012 — avg 1 · peak 5Dec 2012 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2013 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2013 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2014 — avg 0 · peak 4Aug 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2017 — avg 1 · peak 3Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Dec 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6May 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Apr 2021 — avg 2 · peak 5Sep 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5Jul 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Dec 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9May 2023 — avg 2 · peak 10Nov 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12Jul 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 8Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$23.74$2.092015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-04-01 — best price $15.952015-04-21 — best price $15.952015-05-07 — best price $15.952015-09-10 — best price $4.972016-01-04 — best price $2.482016-04-04 — best price $9.952016-06-27 — best price $9.952016-11-23 — best price $3.492017-01-02 — best price $6.992017-05-23 — best price $9.952017-09-08 — best price $4.972017-11-28 — best price $6.992017-12-21 — best price $2.442018-03-16 — best price $4.972018-05-07 — best price $9.952018-07-05 — best price $6.992018-09-07 — best price $9.952018-10-26 — best price $4.972018-11-27 — best price $6.992019-02-11 — best price $6.992019-04-19 — best price $4.972019-06-28 — best price $4.972019-08-09 — best price $4.972019-11-01 — best price $6.992019-12-20 — best price $4.972020-07-09 — best price $6.992020-12-22 — best price $2.442021-11-01 — best price $6.992022-06-23 — best price $3.492023-01-05 — best price $6.992023-04-17 — best price $3.492023-11-28 — best price $6.992024-11-27 — best price $2.792025-03-20 — best price $6.992025-12-18 — best price $3.492026-04-09 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2061122026-05-31 — 164 pageviews2026-06-04 — 163 pageviews2026-06-08 — 142 pageviews2026-06-12 — 148 pageviews2026-06-16 — 130 pageviews2026-06-20 — 141 pageviews2026-06-24 — 123 pageviews2026-06-28 — 206 pageviews2026-07-02 — 149 pageviews2026-07-06 — 138 pageviews2026-07-10 — 121 pageviews2026-07-14 — 151 pageviews2026-07-18 — 148 pageviews2026-07-22 — 125 pageviews2026-07-26 — 154 pageviews2026-07-30 — 154 pageviews2026-08-03 — 175 pageviews2026-08-07 — 140 pageviews2026-08-11 — 151 pageviews2026-08-15 — 156 pageviews2026-08-19 — 124 pageviews2026-08-23 — 163 pageviews2026-08-27 — 129 pageviews2026-08-31 — 180 pageviews2026-09-04 — 157 pageviews2026-09-08 — 142 pageviews2026-09-12 — 161 pageviews2026-09-16 — 137 pageviews2026-09-20 — 133 pageviews2026-09-24 — 152 pageviews2026-09-28 — 166 pageviews2026-10-02 — 121 pageviews2026-10-06 — 117 pageviews2026-10-09 — 147 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualHidden Object

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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