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The Legend of Tianding

Creative Games Computer Graphics Corporation · Neon Doctrine · 2021-11-01

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ActionAdventureRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 31, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Oct 31, 2022 (Xbox One), Nov 01, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 18, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Nov 01, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 18, 2023 (PlayStation 5)

The Legend of Tianding is a sidescrolling action game about Liao Tianding, the legendary Taiwanese Folk Hero. Explore the dazzling streets of Colonial Japanese Taiwan in the early 20th century.

20
playing now
94%
positive of 4.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
4.9h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

The Legend of Tianding is a side-scrolling platform beat 'em up video game developed by Creative Games & Computer Graphics (CGCG) and published by Neon Doctrine for Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S; and personal computers running Windows and iOS. It was released initially for Switch and Steam on November 1, 2021, and ported to additional platforms approximately a year later.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 20 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 126 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (888 reviews).
  • · Top 17% of 10,792 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-26

Estimated sales: 87k–197k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,371 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

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

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2026-03-02) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 43 of 63 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
86586520212026Week of 2021-11-01: 865 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2302026-08-07 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 7 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 9 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 9 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 12 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 9 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 7 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 9 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 20 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$4.992021-11-022026-08-302021-11-02 — best price $17.992022-01-17 — best price $13.392022-04-13 — best price $17.992022-06-24 — best price $10.992022-07-18 — best price $16.592022-08-22 — best price $19.992022-09-15 — best price $9.822022-10-31 — best price $11.992022-11-23 — best price $9.992022-12-23 — best price $9.812023-01-14 — best price $9.992023-02-24 — best price $16.292023-03-23 — best price $19.992023-06-28 — best price $19.702023-08-07 — best price $9.992023-12-22 — best price $9.992024-02-23 — best price $7.992024-04-29 — best price $19.992024-07-29 — best price $19.992024-09-25 — best price $7.992024-11-26 — best price $7.992025-01-09 — best price $7.992025-02-20 — best price $7.992025-03-31 — best price $7.992025-06-13 — best price $19.992025-09-05 — best price $5.992025-12-18 — best price $5.992026-03-19 — best price $4.992026-05-13 — best price $19.992026-06-15 — best price $19.992026-07-26 — best price $19.992026-08-10 — best price $4.992026-08-24 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2902026-05-28 — 7 pageviews2026-05-31 — 8 pageviews2026-06-03 — 6 pageviews2026-06-06 — 7 pageviews2026-06-09 — 9 pageviews2026-06-12 — 7 pageviews2026-06-15 — 4 pageviews2026-06-18 — 7 pageviews2026-06-21 — 5 pageviews2026-06-24 — 6 pageviews2026-06-27 — 9 pageviews2026-06-30 — 4 pageviews2026-07-03 — 5 pageviews2026-07-06 — 3 pageviews2026-07-09 — 10 pageviews2026-07-12 — 11 pageviews2026-07-15 — 9 pageviews2026-07-18 — 11 pageviews2026-07-21 — 6 pageviews2026-07-24 — 6 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-30 — 8 pageviews2026-08-02 — 5 pageviews2026-08-05 — 11 pageviews2026-08-08 — 9 pageviews2026-08-11 — 8 pageviews2026-08-14 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 8 pageviews2026-08-20 — 7 pageviews2026-08-23 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
85.5%
earned "Hero Arrives"
22.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Japanese, Russian, French, Spanish - Spain, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)7,9395%26
Steam (Steam)2,44815%26
PS5 (PlayStation)20665%26
PS5 (PlayStation)17034%26
PS4 (PlayStation)12068%26
PS5 (PlayStation)10734%26
PS4 (PlayStation)5845%26
PS4 (PlayStation)3145%26
Switch (Nintendo)210%0
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

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

Player tags

2DRPGCombatAdventureComic BookControllerHistoricalPlatformerStory RichBeat 'em up

Census log

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

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