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Inked: A Tale of Love
Inked is a narrative-driven puzzle game set in a world of beautiful ballpoint pen-drawn landscapes. Playing as the Nameless Hero, you will solve intriguing puzzles while searching for your love Aiko.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Inked: A Tale of Love is a very pretty casual puzzler with the most eye-rollingly trite storyline of all time. I guess the developer was trying to exorcise their demons by adding a literal artist insert character whose constant vapid musing on grief reflects some kind of…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“A nice, short puzzle game that's an easy 100% completion in under 5 hours. The gameplay itself is enjoyable and the story is okay, but honestly, it would have been a much better experience without the narrator. Overall, a decent pick-up on sales for a quick playthrough.”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“I really like how this game is hand drawn. There are several puzzles to solve to progress through the game. During your travel through the game, be on the lookout for canvases (paintings) that add artwork from the game to the Gallery, and go towards achievements. The version of…”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 22:38 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Inked Update - What's New? 📢
Hey everyone, We're happy to announce that we've regained publishing rights for Inked! Additionally, we've added a minor sandbox mode that allows you to play around with an endless amount of objects.
《Inked: A Tale of Love》Game Release Notice
First of all, we're happy to say that we could finally bring to you today! When I first played Inked , I felt the same as most previous players, the artwork is just beautiful (and Nameless Hero is jus
Dev Story - Part 2
In the last dev story, we covered the initial development and release of Inked. Today we will take a look at how the feedback and reviews after the game’s release prompted the team to deeply analyze t
Dev Log - We are now fully working on the new Inked! How do you like the new KV?
Hi Everyone, With Inked's mobile version launched in February, receiving many great reviews, we can finally feel comfortable enough to start working full-time on the PC version of the game. To celebra
Dev Story - How we started with Inked
As you all patiently wait for the relaunch of Inked, I want to start sharing a few dev stories (or just late dev logs) on my thoughts behind creating Inked - why and how we created this game and why i
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Hand-drawn · Casual · Adventure · Indie · Puzzle · Story Rich · Great Soundtrack · Puzzle-Platformer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Korean * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 15 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://somniumgames.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 32-bit or higher Processor: 2.3 Ghz or higher Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 750 / Radeon R7 260X or equivalent with at least 1024 MB DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 8 GB available space Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card