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Nanotale - Typing Chronicles cover art

Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

Fishing Cactus · 2021-03-31

SteamGOG

AdventureRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 23, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 31, 2021 (Google Stadia)

Something is wrong with the heart of magic. Play a young archivist venturing out into a dying world, cataloging its mysteries and its wonders to unearth the truth. Nanotale is the new adventure from the Typing Chronicles franchise and the spiritual successor to the acclaimed Epistory.

4
playing now
76%
positive of 861 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Nanotale – Typing Chronicles is a fantasy adventure and typing video game developed and published by Fishing Cactus and released from early access on March 31, 2021 for Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, and Google Stadia. It is the second game in the Typing Chronicles series after Epistory – Typing Chronicles. The main character is Rosalind, an archivist with a talent for word magic. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its world design, lore, and mechanics, but criticized the story as weak.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 32% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 17k–39k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 861 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

IndieGala$1.99-90%
GameBillet$2.95-85%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.95-85%
Humble Store$2.99-80%
GreenManGaming$3.28-84%
GOG$3.99-80%
GamersGate$4.00-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at IndieGala Store (2026-07-14) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 120 of 155 observed days · $0.96 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-11 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.992019-10-232026-08-302019-10-23 — best price $13.492021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-04-26 — best price $14.992021-07-26 — best price $14.992021-10-27 — best price $15.992021-12-11 — best price $19.992022-01-31 — best price $11.502022-04-21 — best price $17.112022-07-07 — best price $19.992022-08-17 — best price $10.992022-11-16 — best price $19.992023-01-10 — best price $10.992023-03-06 — best price $7.452023-05-01 — best price $19.992023-06-23 — best price $11.592023-07-30 — best price $11.452023-09-13 — best price $14.992023-11-13 — best price $10.992023-12-21 — best price $6.742024-02-01 — best price $9.002024-03-18 — best price $19.992024-05-13 — best price $5.282024-07-05 — best price $10.002024-08-27 — best price $19.992024-10-14 — best price $7.202024-11-26 — best price $7.992025-02-10 — best price $6.402025-04-24 — best price $6.992025-06-17 — best price $13.942025-08-18 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $5.902025-12-01 — best price $19.992026-01-19 — best price $4.072026-03-17 — best price $2.992026-04-25 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $3.992026-08-10 — best price $3.342026-08-30 — best price $2.95
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

702026-07-03 — 4 pageviews2026-07-05 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 0 pageviews2026-07-09 — 2 pageviews2026-07-11 — 2 pageviews2026-07-13 — 2 pageviews2026-07-15 — 5 pageviews2026-07-17 — 2 pageviews2026-07-19 — 2 pageviews2026-07-21 — 0 pageviews2026-07-23 — 1 pageviews2026-07-25 — 6 pageviews2026-07-27 — 3 pageviews2026-07-29 — 2 pageviews2026-07-31 — 0 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1 pageviews2026-08-04 — 1 pageviews2026-08-06 — 5 pageviews2026-08-08 — 7 pageviews2026-08-10 — 2 pageviews2026-08-12 — 1 pageviews2026-08-14 — 2 pageviews2026-08-16 — 0 pageviews2026-08-18 — 0 pageviews2026-08-20 — 0 pageviews2026-08-22 — 0 pageviews2026-08-24 — 4 pageviews2026-08-26 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

34
achievements tracked
66.5%
earned "1% : Epistory"
20.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,05618%34

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

Player tags

RPGIndieMagicPuzzleTypingFantasyColorfulRelaxingAdventureNarration

Census log

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

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