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Outcast Tales: The First Journey

Outcast Tales: The First Journey

Experience the beginning of a grand adventure in Outcast Tales: The First Journey. Engage in deep tactical battles, make tough decisions, and choose your own adventures - write an Outcast Tale that’s unique to you!

Released Jan 29, 2024 Developer Hardlane Studio Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux RogueliteTurn-Based CombatTurn-BasedRoguelikeParty-Based RPG
View on Steam ↗ Free (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 2026-09-25.

85.1%positive268 reviews
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Love the comic art style. Love the character interactions. Love the world setting. Love the game plays. It may not be the most unique game out there, but what I have seen so far is very clean. Dev, I hope you get rewarded for your hard works.”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Not bad, but not good either. Still recommended since it is free, try it and see for yourself.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Outcast Tales: The First Journey is a free tactical RPG that mixes turn based combat with roguelite runs, random events and a surprisingly strong focus on the personalities of the characters I take with me. I am putting together a small crew and sending them across a dangerous…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 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 2026-09-25.

10achievements
34.1%median completion
3.6%rarest: Untouchable
71.8% of players 50.7% of players 48.9% of players 41.1% of players 34.2% of players 34.1% of players 26.4% of players 15.7% of players 15.6% of players 3.6% of players 71.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
71.8%Easy Money — Complete the tutorial.
50.7%Careless — Lose a pet.
48.9%Best Served Hot — Kill an enemy with a counterattack.
Rarest badges of honor
3.6%Untouchable — Win a fight without taking damage.
15.6%Last Man Standing — Win a fight with the only one outcast alive.
15.7%Seriously, Look It Up — Win a poetry battle.

Latest official news

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

Sep 10, 2026
The Free Outcast Tales Demo Is Out!

This demo isn't the prologue. It's much larger. Think of it as the full experience, just cut in half. Playtime's roughly doubled: seven new bosses, four times the encounters. And yes, there's a new en

Aug 21, 2026
Outcast Tales isn't dead!

Greetings, misfits! It has been a while. More than 2 years, in fact. Long enough for some of you to reasonably wonder whether Outcast Tales wandered into the Wasteland and got eaten by something with

May 30, 2024
The Other Tales

Greetings, Misfits! The release of Outcast Tales is getting closer. We hope the game provides plenty of fun for everyone, with many hours of content to take a crack at. But don’t just sit on your hand

Mar 29, 2024
A Day's Journey — Part 2

Continuing from last time... One of your team-mates is exhausted after a long trip. Earth to Valery: we literally just camped out! You decide to urge your crewmate to keep going, but this choice comes

Mar 25, 2024
A Day's Journey — Part 1

Greetings, misfits! ...Who am I talking to? You three, obviously. You’ve got an important mission today, so let’s get on with it. Time for another day in the Wasteland. Let’s see if it proves fruitful

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresAdventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy, Free To Play
Player tagsRoguelite · Turn-Based Combat · Turn-Based · Roguelike · Party-Based RPG · Turn-Based Tactics · Post-apocalyptic · Adventure · Tactical · RPG · Turn-Based Strategy · Choices Matter (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · Steam Cloud
LanguagesEnglish * , German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese *
ControllerFull support
Achievements10
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Win 10, 8 and 7 SP1+ (64 bit) Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz Memory: 3 GB RAM Graphics: Open GL 3.2+ Compliant DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 4 GB available space Sound Card: Direct X9 Compatible