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On Your Tail

Memorable Games · Balor Games · 2024-12-16

Steam

AdventureIndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 16, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 13, 2025 (Nintendo Switch)

A cozy detective adventure where you play as a vacation-bound writer who stumbles upon an idyllic town plagued by an enigmatic thief. Crack the case in this charming seaside town, build relationships, and unravel secrets in a world full of quirky characters and heartwarming stories.

88%
positive of 407 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
46/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
On Your Tail is a mystery adventure life simulation video game developed by Italian indie studio Memorable Games and published by Balor Games. It was released on December 16, 2024 on Windows, which was followed by a Nintendo Switch port on March 13, 2025, with the latter being a timed console exclusive.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (52 reviews).
  • · Top 44% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.1k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 407 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $13.99 at Steam (2025-10-06) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $20.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
414120242026Week of 2024-12-16: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-12-16: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-12-23: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-12-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-30: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-06: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-13: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-20: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-27: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-03: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-10: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-17: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-31: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-07: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-09: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-07: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-26: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-09: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-06: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-18: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-27: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$34.99$13.992024-12-162026-08-132024-12-16 — best price $31.492024-12-23 — best price $34.992024-12-30 — best price $34.992025-02-03 — best price $27.992025-02-10 — best price $34.992025-02-20 — best price $29.992025-03-13 — best price $23.992025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-06-26 — best price $23.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-08-15 — best price $20.992025-08-22 — best price $29.992025-09-29 — best price $20.992025-10-06 — best price $13.992025-12-03 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $13.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-01-12 — best price $13.992026-01-19 — best price $19.992026-03-05 — best price $13.992026-03-12 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $13.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-05-07 — best price $13.992026-05-28 — best price $13.992026-06-04 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $13.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-13 — best price $13.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2442026-05-22 — 5 pageviews2026-05-25 — 13 pageviews2026-05-28 — 19 pageviews2026-05-31 — 13 pageviews2026-06-03 — 16 pageviews2026-06-06 — 18 pageviews2026-06-09 — 10 pageviews2026-06-12 — 13 pageviews2026-06-15 — 24 pageviews2026-06-18 — 13 pageviews2026-06-21 — 12 pageviews2026-06-24 — 15 pageviews2026-06-27 — 19 pageviews2026-06-30 — 17 pageviews2026-07-03 — 10 pageviews2026-07-06 — 14 pageviews2026-07-09 — 13 pageviews2026-07-12 — 7 pageviews2026-07-15 — 6 pageviews2026-07-18 — 6 pageviews2026-07-21 — 5 pageviews2026-07-24 — 8 pageviews2026-07-27 — 17 pageviews2026-07-30 — 8 pageviews2026-08-02 — 6 pageviews2026-08-05 — 9 pageviews2026-08-08 — 8 pageviews2026-08-11 — 7 pageviews2026-08-14 — 4 pageviews2026-08-17 — 11 pageviews2026-08-19 — 13 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

45
achievements tracked
77.4%
earned "Budding Investigator"
18.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Cloud2 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3489%45
Switch (Nintendo)110%0

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

Player tags

RPGCozyCuteFishingMysteryRomanceLife SimAdventureDetectiveNarrative

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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