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Runes cover art

Runes

Ede Tarsoly · Headup · 2016-11-24

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 24, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 24, 2016 (Linux)

Runes is a unique puzzle game where you need to arrange the marbles in each and every level to match the picture in the upper-right corner. The less moves you use to do that, the more stars you'll earn.

Runes is a 2016 Casual and Indie game priced at $0.99, with an estimated owner base of 0 to 20,000 and a Positive sentiment from 81% of 42 reviews.— census verdict as of 2026-10-10

81%
positive of 42 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 51% of 29,286 Casual games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162026Week of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.