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Once Upon a Rogue's Tale

Once Upon a Rogue's Tale

Embark on a journey through your favorite fairytales in this charming roguelike deckbuilder. Trade dice in battle to play lots of different cards or to use powerful character abilities. Encounter story events and make tough decisions that shape your journey as it unfolds in your personal storybook.

Released Aug 20, 2024 Developer PolyPirates UG, Lizard Child Publisher PolyPirates UG Platforms Windows Rogue-liteDeckbuildingCard GameTurn-Based TacticsFemale Protagonist
View on Steam ↗ $12.49 (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.

93.1%positive72 reviews
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“So epically, unbelievably slow”

— a player, Steam review · 1 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.

50achievements
6.4%median completion
0.3%rarest: She is a bottomless pit!
43.9% of players 41.8% of players 41.8% of players 38.9% of players 34.1% of players 33.2% of players 31.5% of players 30.2% of players 26.7% of players 20.2% of players 18.0% of players 17.5% of players 17.0% of players 16.6% of players 16.6% of players 16.1% of players 15.7% of players 14.5% of players 12.8% of players 11.2% of players 9.5% of players 8.7% of players 8.5% of players 7.6% of players 6.5% of players 6.4% of players 5.2% of players 4.5% of players 4.1% of players 4.0% of players 4.0% of players 3.7% of players 3.4% of players 2.7% of players 2.6% of players 2.5% of players 2.1% of players 1.8% of players 1.5% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.4% of players 0.3% of players 43.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
43.9%You have to be lucky sometimes — Receive an event reward for the first time
41.8%A fairytale friend — Get another fairytale character to join the team
41.8%Even in fairy tales, not everything is always beautiful — Receive an event penalty for the first time
Rarest badges of honor
0.3%She is a bottomless pit! — Feed the goat 100 times
0.4%You are not fairest of them all — Hidden achievement
0.7%Fairytale hero — Complete a run without additional characters

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 28, 2025
Small Patch 06: Once Upon a Rogue's Tale - Early Access

Bug fixes: Game breaks completely when wonder tendrils or fire tendrils are active on a character and target is defeated before trigger (Special thanks to The RBG for pointing it out and explaining it

Jul 22, 2025
Early Access Update 3: Quality of Life, new Artworks & Balancing

Hey everyone! We know many of you are eagerly awaiting controller support, and we promise it's still in the works! In the meantime, we're thrilled to bring you a huge Quality of Life update filled wit

Nov 22, 2024
Small Patch 05: Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale – Early Access

Bug fixes Frog Prince and Jack complete achievements swapped Complete achievements not triggering sometimes Last story parts not appearing after final battle Resetting status of characters triggers er

Nov 19, 2024
Small Patch 04: Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale – Early Access

Bug fixes Scholar of fairy tales and legends achievement not triggering Fairytale hero achievement not triggering when having all characters in reserve Table-be-unset achievement triggering in basic f

Nov 11, 2024
Early Access Update 2: Achievements 🏆

This update for Once Upon a Rogue's Tale introduces Steam Achievements to make your adventures even more thrilling! A special thank you goes out to our amazing Discord community for their fantastic id

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

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

GenresCasual, Strategy, Early Access
Player tagsRogue-lite · Deckbuilding · Card Game · Turn-Based Tactics · Female Protagonist · Cute · Perma Death · 2D · Anime · Hand-drawn · Procedural Generation · Rogue-like (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, German * *
Achievements50
Official sitehttps://polypirates.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 1Gb Memory Storage: 3 GB available space