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Once Upon A Puppet

Once Upon A Puppet

Control the strings of fate and embark on a grand adventure with Drev and Nieve. A magical, story-driven 2.5D puzzle-platformer where puppeteering mechanics and a whimsical, theater-inspired world intertwine.

Released Apr 23, 2025 Developer Flatter Than Earth Publisher Daedalic Entertainment Platforms Windows 3D PlatformerAdventureAtmosphericSingleplayerNarrative
View on Steam ↗ $24.99 (US · as of 2026-05-18)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

86.4%positive154 reviews
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Highly recommend this game. Wonderful story and it has PUPPETS!!! I played this game 3 months ago and I still keep thinking about it and wanting to replay it to 100% it. Even my shooter game enjoying chad friends like the game we had fun each taking turns voicing the characters…”

— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Once Upon A Puppet delivers much better theatrical themes and charming story elements than gameplay execution. Jump and glide to explore theatrically inspired environments. Handle items and move objects to complete puzzles and platforming sections. Talk to numerous characters…”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
Not recommended · 3 found this helpful

“I don't like how wildly the difficulty varies, from the moment you enter a level and you're already being told what to do, like "you should move this piece onto that platform," even though things like that are already obvious, to having a parkour section where deadly smoke is…”

— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

27achievements
6.0%median completion
0.6%rarest: A Flawless Performance
28.5% of players 27.1% of players 25.1% of players 23.5% of players 22.8% of players 22.8% of players 21.5% of players 20.4% of players 18.0% of players 13.3% of players 13.1% of players 8.8% of players 6.4% of players 6.0% of players 5.4% of players 5.0% of players 4.4% of players 4.0% of players 3.5% of players 3.3% of players 3.3% of players 3.1% of players 2.8% of players 2.6% of players 1.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.6% of players 28.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
28.5%A Beast, a Ring, and a Wedding — Rebuild the first Lost Act.
27.1%So Shines a Good Deed — In Haven Hamlet, lend a helping hand to every Puppet and Stagehand in need.
25.1%Cliffhanger — Yank along a wall 10 times while wearing the Questing Prince's costume.
Rarest badges of honor
0.6%A Flawless Performance — Save the Kingdom without perishing once.
0.9%Every Arrow Has a Target — Waste not a single arrow in the Phantom Forest.
1.9%The Flying Messenger — Use vertical ropes and ziplines 5 times while wearing Kumpel's costume.

Latest official news

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

Jul 23, 2025
Another round of fixes!

Hi everyone, with this patch we introduce a ton of fixes: improved camera movement in mutliple scenes overhauled misguiding/faulty colliders geometry fixes performance and physics improvements Thank y

Apr 30, 2025
Collectible hotfix is here!

Hello dear Puppeteers, despite our testing, some pesky issues regarding our collectibles sneaked into the game, apologies. Those are fixed with this release: Fixes to the shard count in chapter 4 Fixe

Apr 23, 2025
Once Upon a Puppet is out NOW!

Heyho everyone! The hand-crafted world of Once Upon a Puppet takes center stage today as we are officially launching our 1.0 Release. Once Upon a Puppet invites players into a magical theatrical realm

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAdventure, Casual, Indie
Player tags3D Platformer · Adventure · Atmospheric · Singleplayer · Narrative · Horror · Indie · Platformer · Dark Fantasy · Narration · Side Scroller · Puzzle-Platformer (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Gamepad Recommended · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese *
ControllerFull support
Achievements27
Official sitehttps://www.flatterthanearth.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: i3-8100 or equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti, AMD Radeon RX 560 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 15 GB available space