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Sketch Tales cover art

Sketch Tales

8D Studio · 2015-09-28

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPGEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 28, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Descend into creative madness with Sketch Tales, a sandbox action RPG where what you draw becomes what you play! Build imaginative worlds, creatures, and weapons and watch your drawings come to life. Share your created worlds and maps with friends and battle it out in multiplayer.

Sketch Tales is a 2015 Action, Adventure, Indie and RPG game priced at $1.00, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a Mixed sentiment (65% of 142 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-08

65%
positive of 142 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$1.00
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 35% of 25,330 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–8.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 142 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.00 at Steam (2017-11-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620152026Week of 2015-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$1.002015-09-282017-11-282015-09-28 — best price $9.992016-06-23 — best price $8.492016-07-04 — best price $9.992016-11-23 — best price $7.892016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $1.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Player tags

RPGIndieActionSandboxAdventureAction RPGHand-drawnOpen WorldEarly AccessFirst-Person

Census log

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

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