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Action indie game Tale of Fallen Dragons launched in 2017, developed and self-published by bigtapir-games. Its initial $9.99 price places it in the budget range; Steam lists 367 reviews, with a mixed label despite a reported 0% positive share.
Overview
Tale of Fallen Dragons is a 2017 Action game developed by BigTapir Games and published by BigTapir Games. On Steam it has gathered 367 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer BigTapir Games with publisher BigTapir Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 19,000 to 44,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Tale of Fallen Dragons can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
367
Positive
86%
Steam appid
570980
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.019K to 44K
units (median: 31K)
≈ $107K to $249K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Tale of Fallen Dragons at roughly 19,000 to 44,000 copies, with a median around 31,000, derived from its 367 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $178K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
4 observed days · window low $1.99Across 4 observed UTC days from 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-10-01.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Tale of Fallen Dragons sold?
- indielist estimates Tale of Fallen Dragons has sold between 18,717 and 43,673 units (median 31,195), derived from its 367 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Tale of Fallen Dragons?
- Tale of Fallen Dragons was developed by BigTapir Games and published by BigTapir Games.
- Who published Tale of Fallen Dragons?
- Tale of Fallen Dragons was published by BigTapir Games, developed by BigTapir Games. See BigTapir Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Tale of Fallen Dragons released?
- Tale of Fallen Dragons was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Tale of Fallen Dragons have on Steam?
- Tale of Fallen Dragons has 367 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Tale of Fallen Dragons worth playing?
- Steam players rate Tale of Fallen Dragons 86% positive across 367 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Tale of Fallen Dragons can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, BigTapir Games's other releases and BigTapir Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Tale of Fallen Dragons 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 Tale of Fallen Dragons page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, 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 sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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