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The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles cover art

The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles

KING Art · THQ Nordic · 2012-12-05

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 05, 2012 (Mac), Dec 05, 2012 (Linux), Dec 05, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Enjoy a thrilling and hilarious point-and-click adventure in the fantasy world of Aventasia

1
playing now
84%
positive of 467 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
8.1h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles is a point-and-click adventure video game created by German developer King Art Games. It is a prequel to The Book of Unwritten Tales that was released in 2009.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 42% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–37k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 467 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.79 at MacGameStore (2025-02-14) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 66 of 103 observed days · $18.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$27.77$1.792015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $7.992015-04-09 — best price $15.412015-06-19 — best price $3.992015-09-12 — best price $19.992015-12-12 — best price $13.992016-03-11 — best price $4.992016-08-04 — best price $5.562016-12-07 — best price $4.992017-06-20 — best price $19.992017-11-16 — best price $4.992018-04-23 — best price $24.542018-07-30 — best price $23.332018-12-01 — best price $19.992019-04-26 — best price $19.992019-08-26 — best price $19.992019-12-09 — best price $19.992020-02-17 — best price $5.002020-06-17 — best price $19.992020-11-25 — best price $4.992021-03-13 — best price $4.992021-07-15 — best price $5.002021-11-24 — best price $4.992022-02-07 — best price $19.992022-06-13 — best price $19.992022-09-08 — best price $4.392022-12-22 — best price $4.992023-03-31 — best price $4.992023-07-18 — best price $19.992023-11-16 — best price $19.992024-03-14 — best price $4.992024-06-12 — best price $9.992024-11-01 — best price $4.992025-01-13 — best price $4.442025-05-12 — best price $4.992025-09-22 — best price $4.992026-01-02 — best price $4.992026-04-29 — best price $19.992026-08-10 — best price $17.992026-08-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1102026-05-31 — 8 pageviews2026-06-03 — 4 pageviews2026-06-06 — 10 pageviews2026-06-09 — 3 pageviews2026-06-12 — 4 pageviews2026-06-15 — 6 pageviews2026-06-18 — 1 pageviews2026-06-21 — 5 pageviews2026-06-24 — 3 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-06-30 — 1 pageviews2026-07-03 — 7 pageviews2026-07-06 — 8 pageviews2026-07-09 — 7 pageviews2026-07-12 — 10 pageviews2026-07-15 — 3 pageviews2026-07-18 — 4 pageviews2026-07-21 — 3 pageviews2026-07-24 — 3 pageviews2026-07-27 — 7 pageviews2026-07-30 — 7 pageviews2026-08-02 — 5 pageviews2026-08-05 — 5 pageviews2026-08-08 — 1 pageviews2026-08-11 — 3 pageviews2026-08-14 — 4 pageviews2026-08-17 — 6 pageviews2026-08-20 — 6 pageviews2026-08-23 — 7 pageviews2026-08-26 — 7 pageviews2026-08-28 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,40722%34

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

Player tags

FunnyIndieComedyPuzzleFantasyAdventureSingleplayerPoint & Click

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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