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TAL: Arctic cover art

TAL: Arctic

Snkl Studio · 2018-07-11

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 11, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

TAL: Arctic - In this game you need help an unknown creature to go in the magic portal across many mazes.

TAL: Arctic is a 2018 Adventure, Casual, and Indie game priced at $0.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed sentiment based on 58% of 108 reviews.

0
playing now
58%
positive of 108 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.7k–6.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 108 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.41 at Steam (2022-11-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420182026Week of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.412018-07-112026-08-172018-07-11 — best price $0.592018-11-01 — best price $0.992018-12-20 — best price $0.492019-03-04 — best price $0.992019-06-26 — best price $0.492019-09-02 — best price $0.992019-11-26 — best price $0.492020-01-02 — best price $0.992020-04-13 — best price $0.492020-07-09 — best price $0.992020-11-25 — best price $0.492021-02-11 — best price $0.492021-05-11 — best price $0.992021-09-06 — best price $0.492021-12-01 — best price $0.992022-02-04 — best price $0.492022-05-26 — best price $0.992022-09-28 — best price $2.992023-01-16 — best price $0.412023-03-23 — best price $2.992023-06-29 — best price $0.412023-09-11 — best price $0.492023-11-28 — best price $0.992024-01-29 — best price $0.492024-05-20 — best price $0.992024-09-02 — best price $0.492024-12-18 — best price $0.992025-03-13 — best price $0.492025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-09-29 — best price $0.492026-01-19 — best price $0.992026-04-13 — best price $0.492026-07-09 — best price $0.992026-08-17 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
91%
earned "Level 1"
64.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

28 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Portuguese - Brazil, Hungarian, Greek, Danish, Traditional Chinese…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-07-11 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DIndieLogicCasualPuzzleRelaxingTop-DownAdventureEducationMinimalist

Census log

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

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