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Tenderfoot Tactics

Kevin Maxon · Ice Water Games · 2020-10-21

SteamMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 21, 2020 (Mac), Oct 21, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 21, 2020 (Linux), Feb 21, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 21, 2024 (Xbox One), Feb 21, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S)

A party of goblins, granted magic by an ancient spirit, wanders the archipelago, fighting back the terrible Fog. Wield elemental power with wild repercussions in this open-world tactics RPG.

82%
positive of 269 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)
Tenderfoot Tactics is an indie tactical role-playing game. The player controls a group of goblins to free an archipelago from a corrupting fog. It was released for Windows, macOS, and Linux on October 21, 2020, and later for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on February 21, 2024.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (50 reviews).
  • · Top 47% of 13,130 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.4k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 269 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-09-29) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 13 of 25 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
505020202026Week of 2020-10-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$0.002020-10-212026-09-052020-10-21 — best price $22.492020-12-22 — best price $19.992021-02-22 — best price $18.742021-05-27 — best price $14.992021-07-26 — best price $16.242021-10-28 — best price $14.992021-11-24 — best price $14.992022-01-27 — best price $9.992022-03-28 — best price $9.992022-06-13 — best price $8.242022-07-25 — best price $12.492022-10-17 — best price $8.242022-12-12 — best price $24.992023-01-30 — best price $24.992023-04-03 — best price $24.992023-06-30 — best price $7.492023-09-04 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-06-10 — best price $14.992024-07-22 — best price $14.992024-11-20 — best price $14.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-02-24 — best price $14.992025-04-07 — best price $14.992025-08-11 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-12-15 — best price $14.992026-01-26 — best price $14.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-06-15 — best price $14.992026-07-27 — best price $14.992026-09-05 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

902026-06-07 — 2 pageviews2026-06-10 — 1 pageviews2026-06-13 — 0 pageviews2026-06-16 — 1 pageviews2026-06-20 — 1 pageviews2026-06-23 — 1 pageviews2026-06-26 — 1 pageviews2026-06-29 — 2 pageviews2026-07-02 — 4 pageviews2026-07-05 — 2 pageviews2026-07-08 — 0 pageviews2026-07-11 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 1 pageviews2026-07-18 — 3 pageviews2026-07-21 — 0 pageviews2026-07-24 — 3 pageviews2026-07-27 — 2 pageviews2026-07-30 — 1 pageviews2026-08-02 — 3 pageviews2026-08-05 — 0 pageviews2026-08-08 — 3 pageviews2026-08-11 — 2 pageviews2026-08-14 — 2 pageviews2026-08-17 — 2 pageviews2026-08-20 — 4 pageviews2026-08-23 — 4 pageviews2026-08-26 — 3 pageviews2026-08-29 — 1 pageviews2026-09-01 — 2 pageviews2026-09-04 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
9.7%
earned "Untouchable"
4.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)697%12
Switch (Nintendo)20%0
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)250%12

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

Player tags

FantasyColorfulStrategyNonlinearControllerOpen WorldExplorationSingleplayerStrategy RPGTactical RPG

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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