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The StoryTale

Maxim Nuriev · 2019-08-15

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jun 30, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 15, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 21, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Feb 12, 2021 (Xbox One)

The StoryTale - is a fairy tale platformer where everything goes bing-bang-boom, but everybody remains alive and healthy. It's a game where you constantly forget the spells and the weapons are cursed. But even in the midst of the swirling action you can stop and think over the next step.

82%
positive of 73 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 21,712 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 73 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2021-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 11 observed days · $4.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520192026Week of 2019-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.34$0.992019-06-252026-09-302019-06-25 — best price $11.102019-10-07 — best price $9.872019-11-26 — best price $9.252019-12-19 — best price $7.892020-03-16 — best price $5.922020-06-25 — best price $3.702020-09-06 — best price $3.702020-11-18 — best price $2.962020-12-22 — best price $2.962021-02-11 — best price $2.962021-03-21 — best price $1.972021-05-25 — best price $4.992021-09-06 — best price $4.992021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-01-26 — best price $4.992022-04-28 — best price $1.242022-09-19 — best price $0.992022-11-28 — best price $0.992023-02-06 — best price $0.992023-04-24 — best price $0.992023-06-29 — best price $0.992023-08-28 — best price $0.992023-12-04 — best price $0.992024-02-26 — best price $0.992024-04-29 — best price $0.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-09-02 — best price $0.992025-03-13 — best price $0.992025-07-14 — best price $0.992025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-11-24 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-09-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Japanese

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyIndieActionFantasyDifficultControllerPlatformerAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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