Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief
Skip · Narrative · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 13, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 2.2h 3.5h to 100%
- Value
- $6.81/hr
- Reviews
- 65% of 389 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Discover the truth behind the myth and save the children!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 83 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 52) outscores it, and so does Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden ($14.99, scores 57). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The drop-off
49% start to 15% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 05:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I will recommend it only because it works, has decent amounts of hidden object scenes, and some of the other puzzles and minigames were good, but uhhhg, this game. The story is TERRIBLE and clumsy, I didn't care about any of the characters, and the antagonist is an idiot with bad motivations.
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Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief scores 13/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/429600/fairy-tale-mysteries-the-puppet-thiefReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.