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The StoryTale

The StoryTale Steam news

Maxim Nuriev | Aug 15, 2019 | game

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  • Review score83% positive

The StoryTale news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

  • Latest observed playersNot available
  • SteamPulse tracked peak1
  • Units sold (VGI)No data available
  • Revenue (VGI)No data available
  • Review score83% positive
  • Total reviews72
  • Release dateAug 15, 2019
  • DeveloperMaxim Nuriev
  • PublisherMaxim Nuriev

Genres: Action, Indie

Company pages: Developer: Maxim NurievPublisher: Maxim Nuriev

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The StoryTale Steam news

The StoryTale news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

  • Steam Deck fix - 5 September 2023

    Starting error "No execution file" is fixed for Steam Deck. N.B. The game is 60 fps designed. If you want a little bit slower pace with slower enemies, arrows, etc. you can define lower framerate in Steam Deck perfomance setup, for example 40fps. It's magic :)

  • The StoryTale minor update and BigChick Demo playing with Clint Gamble - 7 February 2021

    Hi, there I am going to release minor update for The StoryTale. 2)Also I am preparing to release XBox version on 19th of February. 3)And currently I am developing my next game BigChick - a fun old good lemmings-type game. You could play demo during Steam Game Festival or watch broadcasting now. https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561198090002566

  • The StoryTale – how did all the goblins quit smoking with Nintendo - 30 June 2020

    Hello everyone! My name is Maxim and I’m the author of the game named “the StoryTale”. I’m here to tell you why did the inhabitants of the world of “the StoryTale” quit bad habits and stopped smoking. ’ll start from the very beginning, namely from the story about the game itself and how “The StoryTale” was born. “The StoryTale” is a fairy-tale platformer with booms, explodes and shatters, immortal prince uses cursed weapons and the princess, who went down to the dungeon, always forgets her magic spells. “The StoryTale” was released on Steam last summer, however its development started back in 2015. I didn’t have any large completed projects behind me back then, so I tried my hand at jams, simultaneously learning Game Maker Studio. The theme of one of the jams was called “useless super-abilities”. I immediately decided to move away from the idea of superheroes to not to get lost in count…

  • April update - 30 April 2020

    -Gamepad auto-search was improved -Large fonts for dialogues in Video submenu option can be switched (accessibility improving) -Smooth camera when landing -Dialogues bubble some bugs were fixed -Goblins with spears always attack screaming (even if attack begins out of the view) -CN/JP some hieroglyphs in the menu options were fixed -Gif tips and bubble texts GUI alignment was improved

  • March update - 31 March 2020

    GUI for 4k was fixed Full-screen display low resolution was fixed Read-write file operation number significantly were reduced Ukrainian voicing updated Improvement of the character’s jump so that he does not cling to the corners with his head Small fix on invisible blocks If you knock on vertical spikes, then at first they drive in gradually up to 50%, and then after a while immediately 100% (the problem of barely visible spikes that can still be touched is solved) The goblin enemies that are needed to access the hearts can no longer be replaced by goblin friends by random generation Some level design was updated

  • January update - 24 January 2020

    Window mode Some optimization Bug with no achivements fixed Some minor fixes

  • Happy New Year :) - 31 December 2019

    The Little Princess wishes you Happy New Year :)

  • Speedrun, tips in gifs and lost hearts. - 31 October 2019

    New difficulty mode: Speedrun. More difficult + timer in HUD. New tutorials - tips in gifs. Get know some hints and skills you could missed previously. New challenges - find and get lost hearts. Explorers and challenge lovers, your turn. No more words. Magic happens :)

  • Update - 11 September 2019

    If you can't find the key in 10 minutes, you will get gray key compass in the HUD. Default language now is English (previously from bunch of Steam and OS setups it happened to be Russian. I am really sorry, comrades. Good bye, Mother Russia) And some minor translation and level design were updated

  • Pixels are for show, pencils for a pro. - 2 September 2019

    https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28581619%2F341eef10c9d2a705070159c4008ecddad215c743.jpg Ice wizards now have additional idle animations and even can sleep. Also mage sleeping was fixed. Now the duration is not a few seconds, but 20 seconds as for other goblins. And some cute fan art from Victoria Kim.

  • Updategeons and dragons - 30 August 2019

    https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28581619%2Fb4299b9cbf081d44337c03d01fdec658f1635916.jpg Big slimes were restored. Goblins now sleep twice more and they continue to sleep after princess fountain rebirth And here we got this gorgeous fan art from Olya Goryacheva.

  • Ukrainian localization - 28 August 2019

    https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28581619%2F2a93927816ac9cbfae403e30728fa20e29fa4fa9.jpg Ukrainian localization was updated thanks to Andrii Raboschuk And some small fixes: -ice mechanics with world-on-pause mechanics were improved -sleeping invisible goblins now will be visible like dark green shadows, so you both could see them and know it's a temporary safe place And beautiful fan aft from Angelika Kashtan

  • Less spikes and more sleeping - 26 August 2019

    https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28581619%2F9ab50f008d50f8c4c097e35a0f10457aed73d8c7.jpg With new update it will be a little bit less spikes and a little bit more time for goblin sleeping. And here is the beautiful fan art from Tvorojenka

  • New update - 24 August 2019

    https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28581619%2F426a0d2a051392d7388a06886436352dc7aaef27.jpg The powerful update, like the last fan art :) + random bounce from the wall bug was fixed + reduce the strength of water flows (easy difficulty) + Increase the operating time of the levers (easy difficulty) + slimes do not spawn on the chests + ice tracks on the generated snow mountains levels + invisible slimes after founain restart should be invisible again + more fountains at step-by-step levels + vertical (on the wall) spikes are "pressed" 1 pixel inside when the princess hits them + now broblins (goblins-friends) give full protection from projectiles, magic and small mobs, no matter how many of their quests are completed

  • Once more - 22 August 2019

    https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28581619%2F9176f7167f627191bbace3ede9d960b3ff365c27.jpg Easy difficulty: longer pause before a goblin with a spear starts attack; more duration before clouds disappear;much more quick appearance of invisible platforms when you don't move. And a beautiful fan art of Denis Popyvanov

  • The small fix and a big princess fan art - 21 August 2019

    https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28581619%2F139ade979e2fd37a9a4da71d105b267a20cca679.jpg And now goblins sleep 20 seconds instead of 5 seconds on easy difficulty.

  • So summerish :) - 20 August 2019

    Fan art by Vladimir Vasilyev https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28581619%2F1576a45bf2839798ab02ff74e4b009f68733b729.gif

  • Release sale - 16 August 2019

    Welcome to our fairy tale Have a nice play) https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28581619%2Fbff033e11311f813a949a9a4dbca2d5f3b9485a3.gif

  • The Chinese localization is ready - 15 August 2019

    Welcome aboard, 1 500 000 000 citizens of China :)

  • The Japanese localization is coming - 13 August 2019

    Have a nice play)

Patch notes and updates

S.noRelease datePatch nameGID number
15 September 2023Steam Deck fix5141476355675492539
230 April 2020April update3127131079126717461
331 March 2020March update2984138620261959734
424 January 2020January update2597949245050028593
531 December 2019Happy New Year :)2592316573890440405
611 September 2019Update2408786008257698645
72 September 2019Pixels are for show, pencils for a pro.2415540140469979232
830 August 2019Updategeons and dragons2415540140459085112
928 August 2019Ukrainian localization2415540140453842361
1026 August 2019Less spikes and more sleeping2416665403785310625
1124 August 2019New update2416665403776909973
1222 August 2019Once more2416665403770575139
1321 August 2019The small fix and a big princess fan art2416665403765465755
1415 August 2019The Chinese localization is ready2412161173665387472
1513 August 2019The Japanese localization is coming2412161173659106177
1611 August 2019Some easy difficulty improvements after testing2412160539866147190
176 August 2019May the force be with you2412159905943126821
185 August 2019HIgh scores2412159905940145299
191 August 2019Intro2412159905927132837
2030 July 2019Very easy difficulty3364670677195887995

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