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The Mage's Tale

inXile Entertainment · 2018-03-23

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionRPG

Franchise: The Bard's Tale · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Virtual Reality

Releases: Jun 20, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 05, 2019 (PlayStation VR), Feb 05, 2019 (PlayStation 4)

The Mage’s Tale is a virtual reality dungeon crawler that transports you to a fantasy world and turns you into a wizard! As an apprentice of the mystic arts, only you have any hope of saving your kidnapped master!

70%
positive of 181 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
69/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
4.36★
PlayStation Store rating (191 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.49
steam price (US)
The Mage's Tale is a first-person virtual reality dungeon crawler role-playing video game developed and published by inXile Entertainment in partnership with Oculus VR. It is a spin-off of The Bard's Tale, set before the events The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep. It is inXile's first virtual reality title.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 25,767 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.5k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 181 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2026-01-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days · $27.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320182026Week of 2018-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$2.992018-03-252026-10-082018-03-25 — best price $39.992018-05-03 — best price $29.992018-09-20 — best price $29.992019-10-28 — best price $9.892019-12-03 — best price $29.992020-01-23 — best price $14.992020-04-06 — best price $29.992020-11-25 — best price $10.192021-01-05 — best price $29.992021-06-24 — best price $7.492021-12-01 — best price $29.992022-01-27 — best price $5.992022-04-15 — best price $29.992022-07-19 — best price $7.492023-01-05 — best price $29.992023-06-29 — best price $5.992023-11-28 — best price $29.992023-12-21 — best price $5.992024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-11-27 — best price $5.992025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-06-26 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $29.992025-12-18 — best price $5.992026-02-01 — best price $29.992026-04-16 — best price $8.992026-07-09 — best price $29.992026-09-21 — best price $29.992026-10-08 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3642026-07-12 — 14 pageviews2026-07-15 — 22 pageviews2026-07-18 — 17 pageviews2026-07-21 — 21 pageviews2026-07-24 — 12 pageviews2026-07-27 — 10 pageviews2026-07-30 — 26 pageviews2026-08-02 — 20 pageviews2026-08-05 — 21 pageviews2026-08-08 — 18 pageviews2026-08-11 — 19 pageviews2026-08-14 — 15 pageviews2026-08-17 — 20 pageviews2026-08-20 — 7 pageviews2026-08-23 — 8 pageviews2026-08-26 — 12 pageviews2026-08-29 — 11 pageviews2026-09-01 — 15 pageviews2026-09-04 — 9 pageviews2026-09-07 — 11 pageviews2026-09-10 — 18 pageviews2026-09-13 — 12 pageviews2026-09-16 — 17 pageviews2026-09-19 — 15 pageviews2026-09-22 — 36 pageviews2026-09-25 — 28 pageviews2026-09-28 — 14 pageviews2026-10-01 — 17 pageviews2026-10-04 — 14 pageviews2026-10-07 — 15 pageviews2026-10-08 — 10 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

41
achievements tracked
59.6%
earned "Far Out Man"
4.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing

Player tags

VRRPGCRPGMagicActionFantasyAdventureFirst-PersonSingleplayerAction-Adventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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