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The Book of Unwritten Tales

KING Art · THQ Nordic · 2012-07-31

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 28, 2011 (Mac), Oct 28, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.

4
playing now
91%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (49 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

The Book of Unwritten Tales is a point-and-click adventure video game created by German developer King Art Games. A prequel called The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles was released in 2012. A sequel, The Book of Unwritten Tales 2, was released on February 20, 2015.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 21% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 86k–173k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,160 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Humble Store$4.99-75%
GOG$19.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Humble Store (2015-05-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 70 of 109 observed days · $19.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1302026-08-06 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 12 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 11 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.44$1.602015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $7.992015-04-13 — best price $17.992015-06-19 — best price $3.992015-10-01 — best price $6.812016-02-12 — best price $19.992016-07-07 — best price $22.172016-11-18 — best price $4.992017-06-07 — best price $4.992017-12-21 — best price $4.992018-06-04 — best price $4.992018-10-08 — best price $4.992019-02-02 — best price $19.992019-07-10 — best price $19.992019-10-21 — best price $19.992020-01-27 — best price $4.992020-04-10 — best price $4.992020-07-28 — best price $4.252021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-05-21 — best price $5.002021-09-11 — best price $19.992022-01-08 — best price $19.992022-04-23 — best price $4.252022-08-05 — best price $4.992022-11-14 — best price $5.002023-01-20 — best price $4.022023-05-02 — best price $19.992023-07-30 — best price $4.252023-11-03 — best price $19.952024-02-07 — best price $4.992024-05-06 — best price $5.002024-08-10 — best price $19.992024-12-07 — best price $19.952025-03-13 — best price $4.992025-06-18 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $3.822025-12-29 — best price $19.992026-04-07 — best price $19.992026-07-14 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3492026-06-01 — 13 pageviews2026-06-04 — 16 pageviews2026-06-07 — 22 pageviews2026-06-10 — 13 pageviews2026-06-13 — 27 pageviews2026-06-16 — 20 pageviews2026-06-19 — 22 pageviews2026-06-22 — 24 pageviews2026-06-25 — 17 pageviews2026-06-28 — 20 pageviews2026-07-01 — 21 pageviews2026-07-04 — 26 pageviews2026-07-07 — 23 pageviews2026-07-10 — 21 pageviews2026-07-13 — 13 pageviews2026-07-16 — 17 pageviews2026-07-19 — 31 pageviews2026-07-22 — 24 pageviews2026-07-25 — 11 pageviews2026-07-28 — 18 pageviews2026-07-31 — 13 pageviews2026-08-03 — 17 pageviews2026-08-06 — 17 pageviews2026-08-09 — 14 pageviews2026-08-12 — 22 pageviews2026-08-15 — 26 pageviews2026-08-18 — 21 pageviews2026-08-21 — 25 pageviews2026-08-24 — 17 pageviews2026-08-27 — 24 pageviews2026-08-28 — 19 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FunnyIndieRetro1990'sComedyPuzzleClassicFantasyAdventureStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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