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Inked: A Tale of Love

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.

Released Aug 27, 2021 Developer Somnium Games d.o.o. Platforms Windows · Mac Hand-drawnCasualAdventureIndiePuzzle
View on Steam ↗ $4.99 (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.

83.2%positive321 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“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
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“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
Not recommended · 2 found this helpful

“I was drafting a review of this game's narrative in my head while playing through it for the last achievement, but then I got to a point where I couldn't be bothered to go into detail, so I'll be quick. The narrative makes no sense. Is the Artist simply going through grief? Then…”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2025-09 via SteamCharts.

27all-time peak
0 2 5 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 4 avg · May 2018

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.

15achievements
27.7%median completion
7.5%rarest: Second opinion
54.1% of players 49.9% of players 44.5% of players 39.1% of players 33.5% of players 31.5% of players 29.6% of players 27.7% of players 26.0% of players 25.3% of players 24.6% of players 24.6% of players 20.0% of players 7.6% of players 7.5% of players 54.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
54.1%Day at the lake — Complete the Prologue
49.9%Sea of Geometry — Complete the Sea of Simple Geometry
44.5%Picked one up — Collect a canvas
Rarest badges of honor
7.5%Second opinion — Complete the game again
7.6%Art collector — Collect all canvases
20.0%Canvas hunter — Collect 27 canvases

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$4.99−50% right nowcurrent · sampled 2026-09-25 21:36 UTC
$9.99base price
$4.99lowest since tracking began2026-08-12
US4.99 USD−50%
EU4.09 EUR−50%
UK3.59 GBP−50%
Australia7.25 AUD−50%
Canada5.74 CAD−50%
Japan505 JPY−50%
Brazil10.34 BRL−50%
China18.50 CNY−50%

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$2.0 China Japan Canada EU UK US Australia≈$5.1

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 08-12 08-21 08-30 09-08 09-16 09-25

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Mar 06, 2024
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.

Aug 28, 2021
《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

May 28, 2021
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

May 07, 2021
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

Apr 16, 2021
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.

GenresAdventure, Casual, Indie
Player tagsHand-drawn · Casual · Adventure · Indie · Puzzle · Story Rich · Great Soundtrack · Puzzle-Platformer (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Korean *
ControllerFull support
Achievements15
Official sitehttps://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