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New Super Lucky's Tale cover art

New Super Lucky's Tale

Playful Corp. · 2020-08-21

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Aug 21, 2020 (Xbox One), Aug 21, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Nov 08, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 21, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 26, 2026 (PlayStation 5)

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95%
positive of 915 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (24 ratings)
3.92★
PlayStation Store rating (8,112 ratings)
6.2h
to beat · completionist 8.5h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)
New Super Lucky's Tale is a 2019 platform game developed and published by Playful Studios. It is an enhanced remake of 2017's Super Lucky's Tale, also developed by Playful Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. Initially released for Nintendo Switch in November 2019, it was later released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, in August 2020. The game received generally positive reviews, with critics praising its improvements over the original.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 127 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Review velocity up 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 16,378 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–41k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 915 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$29.99
Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-12-18) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 17 of 32 observed days · $27.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
303020202026Week of 2020-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 7 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$2.992020-08-212026-09-182020-08-21 — best price $39.992020-12-03 — best price $39.992021-03-05 — best price $29.992021-05-11 — best price $23.992021-07-22 — best price $22.492021-10-28 — best price $19.492021-12-04 — best price $29.992022-02-21 — best price $29.992022-06-06 — best price $14.992022-07-28 — best price $29.992022-10-10 — best price $14.992022-11-18 — best price $14.992022-12-22 — best price $9.892023-02-07 — best price $29.992023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-05-05 — best price $8.992023-06-11 — best price $8.992023-07-20 — best price $8.992023-09-14 — best price $8.992023-11-17 — best price $8.992024-01-10 — best price $29.992024-03-13 — best price $7.492024-05-22 — best price $29.992024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-09-10 — best price $29.992024-11-14 — best price $8.992024-12-31 — best price $29.992025-02-24 — best price $29.992025-04-09 — best price $29.992025-06-10 — best price $29.992025-08-20 — best price $8.992025-11-06 — best price $7.492025-12-04 — best price $29.992026-02-12 — best price $4.492026-04-13 — best price $29.992026-09-18 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

81252026-06-20 — 32 pageviews2026-06-23 — 35 pageviews2026-06-26 — 34 pageviews2026-06-29 — 41 pageviews2026-07-02 — 33 pageviews2026-07-05 — 54 pageviews2026-07-08 — 33 pageviews2026-07-11 — 41 pageviews2026-07-14 — 42 pageviews2026-07-17 — 34 pageviews2026-07-20 — 32 pageviews2026-07-23 — 45 pageviews2026-07-26 — 27 pageviews2026-07-29 — 32 pageviews2026-08-01 — 33 pageviews2026-08-04 — 37 pageviews2026-08-07 — 52 pageviews2026-08-10 — 38 pageviews2026-08-13 — 67 pageviews2026-08-16 — 81 pageviews2026-08-19 — 56 pageviews2026-08-22 — 51 pageviews2026-08-25 — 28 pageviews2026-08-28 — 28 pageviews2026-08-31 — 47 pageviews2026-09-03 — 36 pageviews2026-09-06 — 54 pageviews2026-09-09 — 47 pageviews2026-09-12 — 39 pageviews2026-09-15 — 35 pageviews2026-09-17 — 32 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
86.9%
earned "A New Tale"
24.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-12-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)38,3668%54
PS4 (PlayStation)3,72152%55
Steam (Steam)1,90923%54
PS5 (PlayStation)49243%55
Switch (Nintendo)2590%0
Switch (Nintendo)240%0

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

Player tags

3DCatsCuteFunnyActionFantasyCartoonyAdventurePlatformerCollectathon

Census log

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

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