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Tales from Candleforth cover art

Tales from Candleforth

Under the Bed Games · Feardemic · 2024-04-30

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AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 30, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 30, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Apr 30, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Apr 30, 2024 (Xbox One), Apr 30, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

Tales from Candleforth is a folk horror 2D point and click game with puzzles and escape room mechanics, that narrates the fairy tales from the village. The text contained in this ancient and evil book is now bleeding out, mixing the world of nightmares with the real one through handmade 2D graphics.

Tales from Candleforth is a 2024 Adventure Casual Indie game priced at $11.99, with an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 180 reviews).

86%
positive of 182 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
3.91★
PlayStation Store rating (54 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

Tales from Candleforth is a collection of fairy tales that were written on top of a forbidden book many years ago to hide its content. Years later, the dark text is bleeding out and onto the pages of the tales, mixing with them and twisting the stories.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (47 reviews).
  • · Top 31% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 182 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.79-60%
Microsoft Store$11.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.79 at GOG (2025-05-07) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 58 of 90 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
414120242026Week of 2024-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$4.792024-04-302026-10-142024-04-30 — best price $9.592024-06-08 — best price $11.992024-07-30 — best price $7.192024-10-15 — best price $7.192024-11-05 — best price $11.992024-11-19 — best price $5.992025-01-02 — best price $11.992025-02-05 — best price $5.992025-03-20 — best price $11.992025-05-07 — best price $4.792025-06-13 — best price $11.992025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-09-11 — best price $11.992025-10-07 — best price $4.792025-11-04 — best price $11.992025-11-25 — best price $4.792026-01-05 — best price $11.992026-02-06 — best price $11.992026-03-19 — best price $4.792026-04-11 — best price $11.992026-05-08 — best price $11.992026-06-04 — best price $4.792026-06-17 — best price $4.792026-07-27 — best price $4.792026-08-28 — best price $4.792026-09-01 — best price $4.792026-09-05 — best price $4.792026-09-09 — best price $4.792026-09-13 — best price $11.992026-09-17 — best price $11.992026-09-21 — best price $11.992026-09-25 — best price $4.792026-09-29 — best price $4.792026-10-03 — best price $4.792026-10-07 — best price $4.792026-10-11 — best price $4.792026-10-14 — best price $4.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
85.9%
earned "Sing out loud"
58.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Polish

Player tags

2DCuteDarkHorrorPuzzleSurrealAdventureHand-drawnOld SchoolConversation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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