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The Path cover art

The Path

Tale of Tales · 2009-03-18

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 18, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 18, 2009 (Mac)

There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken. There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die.

1
playing now
79%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (29 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

The Path is a psychological horror art game developed by Tale of Tales originally released for the Microsoft Windows operating system on March 18, 2009, in English and Dutch, and later ported to Mac OS X by TransGaming Technologies.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 11,432 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 42k–84k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,052 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2013-03-21) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 2 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.492015-01-012026-03-262015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-06-11 — best price $2.492015-10-29 — best price $2.492015-12-02 — best price $9.992016-01-05 — best price $9.992016-05-05 — best price $6.992016-06-23 — best price $4.992016-09-22 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $4.992017-03-25 — best price $9.992017-09-07 — best price $2.492017-11-01 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-05-10 — best price $4.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-12-20 — best price $4.992019-06-02 — best price $9.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992019-11-01 — best price $9.992020-04-01 — best price $8.892020-05-04 — best price $9.992020-05-21 — best price $9.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $7.492023-11-02 — best price $9.992024-10-28 — best price $6.692025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-10-27 — best price $3.392026-01-30 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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9 supported languages: English, Dutch, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

DarkIndieGothicHorrorSurrealAdventureStory RichAtmosphericExplorationExperimental

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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