Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 6.2h 8.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.80/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 865 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Something is wrong with the heart of magic. Play a young archivist venturing out into a dying world, cataloging its mysteries and its wonders to unearth the truth. Nanotale is the new adventure from the Typing Chronicles franchise and the spiritual successor to the acclaimed Epistory.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 70 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 75 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Epistory - Typing Chronicles ($4.49, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Forspoken ($69.99, scores 7).
More about Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 76 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 437 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
66% start to 9% 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
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 21:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I love how easy the game is to play. I am not much of a fast typist, so I do like that I am able to take my time on certain words that come up during the game that need to be typed out. The game is easy to pick up and very addicting. I love the fact that I am able to play a game but also able to practice my typing skills on top of that. For anyone who is looking at honing their typing skills, or looking for...
1 more review, not recommended
The end of the game just ruins the experience for me and I'm glad I only paid $5 for this. So, the story is nonsensical and studying plants will sometimes throw names of people at you that you haven't even met yet, so that's pretty lazy. Characters essentially are just trying to get you from point A to point B; there's no reason to care about any of them and none of them really have any emotions to them. The usual...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Nanotale - Typing Chronicles scores 45/100 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/944920/nanotale-typing-chroniclesReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.