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The Darkest Tales — Into the Nightmare

Trinity Team · 101XP · 2021-10-14

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 14, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

When a nightmare creeps into reality, the only ones that can help are those whose magical powers we’ve believed in since childhood. A brave teddy bear and his fairy sidekick head to the darker side of “happily ever after” to rescue his owner, Alicia.

The Darkest Tales — Into the Nightmare is a 2021 Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie title priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment (85% of 1868 reviews).

0
playing now
85%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (444 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Current store prices

GOG$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 49 of 49 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
40940920212026Week of 2021-10-01: 335 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 409 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-15 05:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$0.00$0.002021-12-222026-10-152021-12-22 — best price $0.002026-08-28 — best price $0.002026-08-30 — best price $0.002026-09-01 — best price $0.002026-09-03 — best price $0.002026-09-05 — best price $0.002026-09-07 — best price $0.002026-09-09 — best price $0.002026-09-11 — best price $0.002026-09-13 — best price $0.002026-09-15 — best price $0.002026-09-17 — best price $0.002026-09-19 — best price $0.002026-09-21 — best price $0.002026-09-23 — best price $0.002026-09-25 — best price $0.002026-09-27 — best price $0.002026-09-29 — best price $0.002026-10-01 — best price $0.002026-10-03 — best price $0.002026-10-05 — best price $0.002026-10-07 — best price $0.002026-10-09 — best price $0.002026-10-11 — best price $0.002026-10-13 — best price $0.002026-10-15 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2.5DCuteDarkColorfulStylizedAdventureEmotionalPlatformerAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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