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Tales [PC] cover art

Tales [PC]

Ape Marina · Screen 7 · 2016-11-14

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 14, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

When an ancient curse is awakened in an old library, Alfred Walsh must travel to the strangest of places to seek help from many great heroes (and lesser ones) in an effort to save our beloved tales!

Tales [PC] is an Adventure and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $0.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (77% of 173 reviews) and an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000.

1
playing now
77%
positive of 173 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Tales is a graphic adventure developed by Ape Marina and published by Screen 7. The game was released DRM-free on Steam, Humble Bundle and GOG for Microsoft Windows and Linux on November 14, 2016. Tales is a 2D point-and-click fantasy game in which stages are based on myths, legends, and fairy-tale books.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.3k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 173 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020162026Week of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 11:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.99$1.592016-11-152021-01-052016-11-15 — best price $9.892016-12-22 — best price $9.892017-03-13 — best price $7.362017-06-22 — best price $5.492017-11-22 — best price $7.362017-11-30 — best price $8.992018-01-04 — best price $8.992018-02-19 — best price $8.992018-04-23 — best price $8.992018-07-05 — best price $8.992018-09-10 — best price $8.992018-11-01 — best price $8.992018-11-27 — best price $8.992019-01-03 — best price $8.992019-02-04 — best price $5.352019-03-11 — best price $3.992019-06-26 — best price $3.992019-08-26 — best price $3.192019-11-26 — best price $5.992019-12-19 — best price $1.592020-01-23 — best price $5.352020-03-30 — best price $2.392020-06-25 — best price $2.392020-10-29 — best price $5.992020-11-25 — best price $5.352020-12-22 — best price $1.992021-01-05 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

702026-06-02 — 2 pageviews2026-06-06 — 2 pageviews2026-06-10 — 5 pageviews2026-06-14 — 1 pageviews2026-06-18 — 2 pageviews2026-06-22 — 2 pageviews2026-06-26 — 1 pageviews2026-06-30 — 3 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-08 — 0 pageviews2026-07-12 — 3 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1 pageviews2026-07-20 — 2 pageviews2026-07-24 — 2 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1 pageviews2026-08-01 — 7 pageviews2026-08-05 — 1 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 4 pageviews2026-08-17 — 4 pageviews2026-08-21 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 1 pageviews2026-08-29 — 7 pageviews2026-09-02 — 3 pageviews2026-09-06 — 3 pageviews2026-09-10 — 3 pageviews2026-09-14 — 5 pageviews2026-09-18 — 6 pageviews2026-09-22 — 6 pageviews2026-09-26 — 5 pageviews2026-09-30 — 1 pageviews2026-10-04 — 3 pageviews2026-10-08 — 4 pageviews2026-10-11 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
23.6%
earned "Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table"
10.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Italian, Russian, French, German

Player tags

2DIndiePuzzleFantasyAdventureHistoricalSingleplayerPoint & ClickPixel GraphicsFamily Friendly

Census log

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

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