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Tanglewood cover art

Tanglewood

Big Evil Corporation · 2018-08-14

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 14, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 14, 2018 (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis), Aug 14, 2018 (Linux), Aug 14, 2018 (Mac), Dec 16, 2025 (Nintendo Switch)

Experience puzzle-platforming the way it’s meant to be. Designed and built on 90’s hardware, Tanglewood is a 16-bit love letter to the golden age of gaming. Guide Nymn home through a forest filled with danger, in classic 2D pixel-art style.

93%
positive of 94 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$17.99
steam price (US)
Tanglewood is a 2018 puzzle platform video game developed and published by Big Evil Corporation for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. It was crowdfunded through Kickstarter and released on 14 August 2018, with emulated versions available for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Steam and a dual-game cartridge for the Evercade along with Xeno Crisis.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 55% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (16 reviews).
  • · Top 47% of 21,077 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 94 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.19 at Steam (2019-10-28) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520182026Week of 2018-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 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 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$17.99$7.192018-08-152026-07-092018-08-15 — best price $17.992018-11-21 — best price $13.492019-01-03 — best price $17.992019-03-29 — best price $13.492019-06-18 — best price $17.992019-08-07 — best price $8.992019-11-01 — best price $17.992019-11-26 — best price $7.192019-12-11 — best price $7.192020-01-23 — best price $7.192020-01-31 — best price $17.992020-04-03 — best price $7.192020-06-15 — best price $17.992020-06-25 — best price $7.192020-09-07 — best price $17.992020-11-23 — best price $7.192020-12-16 — best price $7.192021-01-05 — best price $17.992021-02-22 — best price $17.992021-05-07 — best price $7.192021-07-26 — best price $17.992021-11-29 — best price $17.992021-12-06 — best price $17.992022-01-05 — best price $17.992022-02-14 — best price $7.192022-04-04 — best price $17.992023-06-29 — best price $8.992024-03-21 — best price $17.992026-01-06 — best price $12.052026-02-28 — best price $17.992026-03-19 — best price $10.792026-05-17 — best price $17.992026-06-17 — best price $10.792026-07-09 — best price $17.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2642026-06-30 — 9 pageviews2026-07-03 — 22 pageviews2026-07-06 — 14 pageviews2026-07-09 — 4 pageviews2026-07-12 — 16 pageviews2026-07-15 — 17 pageviews2026-07-18 — 8 pageviews2026-07-21 — 20 pageviews2026-07-24 — 8 pageviews2026-07-27 — 15 pageviews2026-07-30 — 20 pageviews2026-08-02 — 14 pageviews2026-08-05 — 10 pageviews2026-08-08 — 11 pageviews2026-08-11 — 19 pageviews2026-08-14 — 14 pageviews2026-08-17 — 9 pageviews2026-08-20 — 11 pageviews2026-08-23 — 17 pageviews2026-08-26 — 15 pageviews2026-08-29 — 13 pageviews2026-09-01 — 14 pageviews2026-09-04 — 13 pageviews2026-09-07 — 15 pageviews2026-09-10 — 16 pageviews2026-09-13 — 11 pageviews2026-09-16 — 10 pageviews2026-09-19 — 11 pageviews2026-09-22 — 4 pageviews2026-09-25 — 19 pageviews2026-09-27 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeIndieRetro1990'sActionArcadeParkourColorful

Census log

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

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