Foretales
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 14.4h
- Value
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compliant card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
August 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 42 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Stanley Parable ($14.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Event[0] ($19.99, scores 41).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 14.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 400 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026.
14.4 hours to finish it, 35 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
45% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 19:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Been enjoying the game so far, it can sometimes be baffling to solve puzzles, but a bit of 90's era tenacity will get you there. The voicing/music and illustration are great! I'm in the start of round three through the story, and am glad that each time there are shortcuts (and variation!) that makes it less tedious to go through various missions I'd recommend it, especially as a game to play through a chapter or a...
Never seen a game like this before. It has so much good art in it, with lots of branching choices to navigate.
Very ambitious game in terms of story, character, and mechanics truthfully didn't appreciate the third act twist and when I thought I was almost finished with the game, it turns out I hadn't even really started. I just was not enjoying the game enough to replay through it multiple times for the "real ending." If I had more time on my hands, or was enjoying the moment to moment gameplay more, than I would be...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Foretales scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1170080/foretalesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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