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A Juggler's Tale
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 players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Very nice 2.5D Puzzle Game. You play as a string puppet in a dark fairy-tale setting. The string mechanic is pretty cool, they can block you or help you to solve a puzzle. The art is beautiful, puzzles are not too hard. Game is a bit short but still a lot of fun.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“PROS + nice naration + nice aesthetic + good gameplay + simple controlls CONS - age is starting to show of (graphically) - the story takes weird turn in Act 4 NEUTRAL ° short (2h)”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Overall, A Juggler’s Tale was a really enjoyable experience for me, and there wasn’t much that stood out as a major downside. First of all, the art style is genuinely beautiful. As you move through the different environments, you can really feel the care put into the atmosphere,…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:28 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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A Juggler’s Tale is featured in this year’s Dreamhack Beyond Indie Showcase!
Let’s celebrate gaming & the gaming community! Let’s enjoy outstanding indie games from around the globe! To celebrate, a free demo of A Juggler’s Tale is now available during the Dreamhack Beyond! If
A Juggler's Tale x The Big Adventure Event 2022: Live-Stream
We're happy to join this year's The Big Adventure Event on Steam, which runs from January 20-24, 2022, and celebrates tons of independently developed adventure games. On this occasion, we'll be playin
Patchnotes 1.16
- fixed Abby slowly climbing up the ladder, causing the chase sequences to be too hard
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Atmospheric · Fantasy · Story Rich · Puzzle-Platformer · Platformer · Narration · Female Protagonist · Medieval · Physics · Adventure · Singleplayer · Indie (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , German * , French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 18 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://ajugglerstale.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7+ (64-bit OS required) Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 / Radeon HD7870 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space