Outcast Tales: The First Journey
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Adventure indie game Outcast Tales: The First Journey was released in 2024, developed by hardlane-studio and published by critical-reflex. Its 268 Steam reviews are 85% positive, earning a Very Positive rating—a modest review base with a strong positive share.
Overview
Outcast Tales: The First Journey is a 2024 Adventure game developed by Hardlane Studio and published by CRITICAL REFLEX. On Steam it has gathered 268 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer Hardlane Studio with publisher CRITICAL REFLEX is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. Because Outcast Tales: The First Journey is free to play, indielist does not convert its review count into paid copies or revenue; this page reports reception and catalog facts instead. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Outcast Tales: The First Journey can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and public reception.
Reviews
268
Positive
85%
Steam appid
882590
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Paid sales estimate unavailable
This game is free to play. Steam reviews measure reception, not paid copies, so indielist does not publish unit-sales or revenue estimates for it.
Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- Is Outcast Tales: The First Journey free to play?
- Yes. Outcast Tales: The First Journey is free to play, so indielist reports its Steam reviews and catalog data without publishing paid-copy or revenue estimates.
- Who developed Outcast Tales: The First Journey?
- Outcast Tales: The First Journey was developed by Hardlane Studio and published by CRITICAL REFLEX.
- Who published Outcast Tales: The First Journey?
- Outcast Tales: The First Journey was published by CRITICAL REFLEX, developed by Hardlane Studio. See CRITICAL REFLEX's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Outcast Tales: The First Journey released?
- Outcast Tales: The First Journey was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Outcast Tales: The First Journey have on Steam?
- Outcast Tales: The First Journey has 268 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Outcast Tales: The First Journey worth playing?
- Steam players rate Outcast Tales: The First Journey 85% positive across 268 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and catalog facts so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Outcast Tales: The First Journey can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Hardlane Studio's other releases and CRITICAL REFLEX's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Outcast Tales: The First Journey sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Outcast Tales: The First Journey page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and received, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and catalog figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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