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Tin Star

Hosted Games · 2015-06-05

Steam

IndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jun 05, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 05, 2015 (Mac), Jun 05, 2015 (Linux)

Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.

95%
positive of 305 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$11.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (79 reviews).
  • · Top 34% of 26,343 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.6k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 305 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2015-06-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
777720152026Week of 2015-06-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 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 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$0.992015-06-052026-07-092015-06-05 — best price $2.992015-06-12 — best price $2.992015-11-25 — best price $3.742015-12-22 — best price $3.742016-02-05 — best price $3.742016-06-23 — best price $3.742016-12-22 — best price $3.742017-06-22 — best price $3.992017-11-22 — best price $2.992017-12-21 — best price $2.992018-06-24 — best price $2.992018-11-21 — best price $2.992018-12-20 — best price $2.992019-06-25 — best price $2.992019-11-26 — best price $2.992019-12-19 — best price $2.992020-06-25 — best price $2.992021-02-11 — best price $2.992021-06-24 — best price $2.992021-11-25 — best price $2.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-06-23 — best price $2.992022-11-22 — best price $2.992022-12-22 — best price $2.992023-01-19 — best price $11.992023-03-23 — best price $11.992023-07-13 — best price $11.992023-11-28 — best price $11.992024-01-04 — best price $11.992024-03-21 — best price $11.992024-07-11 — best price $11.992024-12-04 — best price $11.992025-01-02 — best price $11.992025-03-20 — best price $11.992025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-10-06 — best price $11.992026-01-05 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
45.9%
earned "K-Bar Award"
2.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2492%14

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

Player tags

RPGIndieWesternText-BasedChoices MatterInteractive FictionChoose Your Own Adventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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