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Tangle Tower

SFB Games · 2019-10-22

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 21, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 06, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Oct 22, 2019 (Mac), Oct 06, 2021 (Xbox One), TBD (Google Stadia), Sep 19, 2019 (iOS)

Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?

Tangle Tower is an Adventure, Indie game released in 2019 for $3.99, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and an Overwhelmingly Positive (95% of 6774 reviews) sentiment.

36
playing now
95%
positive of 6.8k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
IGDB user rating (31 ratings)
4.59★
PlayStation Store rating (222 ratings)
6.3h
to beat · completionist 6.1h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.99
steam price (US)

36 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 20:00 UTC (census sample)

Tangle Tower is a murder mystery point-and-click adventure game developed and published by SFB Games. It is a sequel to the 2014 game Detective Grimoire and the third entry in the Detective Grimoire series. The game was launched with the Apple Arcade service on 19 September 2019 and was later released for Nintendo Switch and Steam on 22 October 2019, followed by PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 6 October 2021.

Trailer

Tangle Tower trailer thumbnail

Tangle Tower PlayStation and Xbox Launch Trailer - SFB Games

≈428,609 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 36 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 848 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~106/week).
  • · Review velocity up 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 169k–406k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,774 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$3.99-80%
GOG$19.99
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2023-05-17) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 70 of 105 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
30830820192026Week of 2019-10-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 308 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

6492026-09-16 06:00 — 11 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 18 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 23 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 25 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 14 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 20 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 14 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 15 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 30 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 31 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 10 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 18 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 21 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 32 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 63 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 40 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 28 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 43 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 49 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 39 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 43 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 63 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 26 players2026-10-15 20:00 — 36 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
734Oct 2019Aug 2026Oct 2019 — avg 33 · peak 74Jan 2020 — avg 15 · peak 50Apr 2020 — avg 13 · peak 76Jul 2020 — avg 10 · peak 32Oct 2020 — avg 8 · peak 29Jan 2021 — avg 9 · peak 37Apr 2021 — avg 7 · peak 33Jul 2021 — avg 8 · peak 26Oct 2021 — avg 5 · peak 24Jan 2022 — avg 6 · peak 19Apr 2022 — avg 6 · peak 26Jul 2022 — avg 25 · peak 85Oct 2022 — avg 5 · peak 13Jan 2023 — avg 13 · peak 41Apr 2023 — avg 20 · peak 62Jul 2023 — avg 18 · peak 44Oct 2023 — avg 13 · peak 66Jan 2024 — avg 19 · peak 54Apr 2024 — avg 12 · peak 44Jul 2024 — avg 19 · peak 50Oct 2024 — avg 6 · peak 16Jan 2025 — avg 8 · peak 26Apr 2025 — avg 7 · peak 17Jul 2025 — avg 17 · peak 39Oct 2025 — avg 15 · peak 55Jan 2026 — avg 30 · peak 98Apr 2026 — avg 18 · peak 62Jul 2026 — avg 73 · peak 221Aug 2026 — avg 49 · peak 143
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$3.992019-10-222026-10-152019-10-22 — best price $15.992020-03-30 — best price $19.992020-11-02 — best price $19.992021-02-11 — best price $12.992021-08-07 — best price $11.992021-12-22 — best price $11.992022-04-04 — best price $19.992022-07-07 — best price $19.992022-10-25 — best price $19.992023-01-03 — best price $19.992023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-06-11 — best price $3.992023-09-05 — best price $19.992023-11-29 — best price $19.992024-03-06 — best price $19.992024-05-08 — best price $3.992024-12-04 — best price $3.992025-02-28 — best price $3.992025-04-22 — best price $3.992025-06-10 — best price $3.992025-08-26 — best price $3.992025-10-22 — best price $3.992026-01-12 — best price $3.992026-03-19 — best price $3.992026-05-02 — best price $19.992026-07-23 — best price $19.992026-08-23 — best price $3.992026-09-02 — best price $3.992026-09-12 — best price $19.992026-09-22 — best price $3.992026-10-02 — best price $3.992026-10-12 — best price $3.992026-10-15 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

387442026-05-29 — 45 pageviews2026-06-02 — 52 pageviews2026-06-06 — 133 pageviews2026-06-10 — 71 pageviews2026-06-14 — 119 pageviews2026-06-18 — 63 pageviews2026-06-22 — 77 pageviews2026-06-26 — 47 pageviews2026-06-30 — 60 pageviews2026-07-04 — 70 pageviews2026-07-08 — 76 pageviews2026-07-12 — 132 pageviews2026-07-16 — 291 pageviews2026-07-20 — 387 pageviews2026-07-24 — 254 pageviews2026-07-28 — 223 pageviews2026-08-01 — 162 pageviews2026-08-05 — 112 pageviews2026-08-09 — 108 pageviews2026-08-13 — 81 pageviews2026-08-17 — 92 pageviews2026-08-21 — 101 pageviews2026-08-25 — 91 pageviews2026-08-29 — 103 pageviews2026-09-02 — 71 pageviews2026-09-06 — 99 pageviews2026-09-10 — 54 pageviews2026-09-14 — 69 pageviews2026-09-18 — 72 pageviews2026-09-22 — 50 pageviews2026-09-26 — 66 pageviews2026-09-30 — 53 pageviews2026-10-04 — 49 pageviews2026-10-07 — 59 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
88.2%
earned "An Unfinished Painting"
60.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller Support1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-02-11 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,20951%10
PS4 (PlayStation)27769%10
Xbox One (Xbox)18152%10
Switch (Nintendo)1090%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DNoirCrimeFunnyPuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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