A Juggler's Tale
Fair · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $17.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $9.00/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 / Radeon HD7870, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?
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 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.79. 43 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Owlboy ($19.99, scores 51).
74 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 385 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 267 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
At 2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
78% start to 14% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 13:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The art is beautiful and the puzzles are entertaining enough. It did however soft lock me multiple different times throughout my run. The first time my screen just endlessly scrolled to the right as it looked for my character, because my character had fallen through the floor and disappeared. The voice lines repeating every time that you weren't quick enough to complete a puzzle did get a bit annoying. Luckily, the...
90 out of 100 Chase moments diminished the rating of the game for me. But overall a good game. Takes about 2-3 hours to complete. Maybe 4-5 for all the achievements
I just finished this game. It is amazing how the music, graphics, and voice match each other perfectly. I highly recommend this game for a beautiful 2 hour experience. It was a great way to spend an evening and I wish there were more. It is sad to see that this developer hasn't released anything else on Steam. Hopefully they will make another game like this in the future.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
A Juggler's Tale scores 58/100 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/1252830/a-juggler-s-taleReviews 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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