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Of Blades & Tails
A turn-based RPG that is action-oriented but rewards a thoughtful approach. Explore a fantastic land populated by different animal tribes. Follow the main story or hunt for treasures in ancient ruins and mysterious dungeons. Develop your character and gain powerful equipment.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“TLDR: this is a great game that got shafted by the reviews. Buy it on sale and you won't regret it. Details below. I read a lot of reviews before buying this game for about 5 dollar on sale. Wasn't sure if I should even buy it for that much b/c the reviews were so bad. I'm…”
— a player, Steam review · 36 hrs played“I went into this game expecting it to be really grindy and difficult because of other people reviews. I was surprised how wrong they seemingly are. I've killed bosses pretty much as soon as I've seen them. No need to grind. I even killed the first boss at level 3 pretty easily…”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“I wish I could recommend this. Unique (for me anyway) play style, dialogue, art, etc. engaging story, lots of secret passages, fun puzzles... But then I got stuck. Max level, trick equipment, everything maximized, using potions+ special ring, decoys, everything... and can't beat…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 21:14 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.
Update v1.1.6.1
Hi folks! Version 1.1.6.1 is a small bugfix update mainly for MacOS users. We've learned that the game stopped working properly on MacOS 26 (Tahoe). This patch fixes that! We've also adjusted the map
Update v1.1.6
We've finally been able to reproduce and eventually fix a very tricky bug that a few of you reported recently! Using a consumable item during combat, when a damage-over-time effect is active on the pl
Of Blades & Tails now also available on Nintendo Switch!
Hi! Time for some news! After finishing the gamepad support and UI revamp on PC some time ago, we've pushed forward to port Of Blades & Tails over to other platforms. As of yesterday, the game is avai
Update v1.1.4
Hi folks! This is just a small bugfix release. We've received feedback that for some languages the game doesn't correctly recognize the system language after first install. This has been fixed and dep
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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, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Tactical RPG · Medieval · Dungeon Crawler · Sandbox · Action RPG · Rogue-like · RPG · Strategy · 2D · Top-Down · Open World · Colorful (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | German, English, Portuguese - Brazil, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Spanish - Spain, French |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 40 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7+ 64-bit Processor: Intel Core Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Any discreet video card from the last decade Storage: 200 MB available space Sound Card: Yes Additional Notes: 1080p or 1440p recommended