Adventure · March 3, 2016

The Count Lucanor (2016)

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Join Hans in a fantasy world and experience a unique adventure, full of surprises and challenges. Get hooked on an immersive tale, where every decision counts and every clue is a piece to solve the puzzle and get the treasure. Unravel the sordid secrets of the castle, meet colorful characters, and remember: horror always lurks beneath the surface. With a retro, halfway-between-8-and-16-bit style and inspired by classic games like The Legend of Zelda, Yume Nikki, Silent Hill or Dark Souls, among others, The Count Lucanor is an amazing mystery and horror adventure set in a fairytale world. The game features important choices, alternative endings, secrets and different ways to solve puzzles. The title is in development for PC, Mac and Linux. Exploration: Walk the Tenebre Castle and place candles on the ground to light up your path. Conversation: Talk to NPCs to get important clues and unravel the mystery of the Count Lucanor. Choices: Your actions change the course of story, with five different endings and several subplots. Stealth: Hide under tables and behind curtains to go undetected. Puzzles: Use the items you found wisely in order to progress. Skill: Avoid traps and enemies in the castle by anticipating them. Once upon a time, there was a poor boy named Hans who lived with his mother near the woods. On his birthday, the boy had no presents nor sweets. He got so upset he decided to leave home for good. Before he left, his mother gave him his grandfather's cane, some cheese and three pieces of gold. Hans walked into the forest in search of adventure. Soon it was night and the boy was really scared, so he tried to go back. But then, a quaint kobold happened to cross his path and Hans decided to follow him to a castle. The kobold told him he would inherit great wealth if he passed a simple trial... guessing his name. Trapped in the castle, Hans will live a spooky mystery, fantasy and horror adventure to become the new Count Lucanor. We’ve hired the greatest composer of all time - Johann Sebastian Bach - to create a soundtrack that will remain etched in your mind forever. Using chiptune tools, we’ve transformed a series of hidden gems of the author to create unique soundscapes for our tale.

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76 Adventure titles launched in 2016 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Gore · 246
  • Horror · 240
  • Survival Horror · 240
  • Pixel Graphics · 236
  • Puzzle · 232
  • Stealth · 224
  • Exploration · 222
  • Psychological Horror · 220
  • Atmospheric · 216
  • Blood · 211
  • Dark Fantasy · 210
  • Story Rich · 200
  • Multiple Endings · 188
  • 2D · 187
  • Anime · 184

Peer Adventure titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.7k Steam reviewsTop 78% in Adventure
Positive rating93% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 40%
Metacritic78/100Genre average 77 — top 53% of Adventure titles
Engagement hours3 h averageTop 83% for session depth among Adventure

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English
  • French
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Hungarian
  • Russian
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Turkish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Korean
  • Italian

Reception Metrics

Steam community

93%Very Positive · 2.7k reviews

2.5k positive · 189 negative

Metacritic

78/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

7.2/10

Curator recommendations

2.3k

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

3h

brief (under 5 hours)

Median

2h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

0h

Current engagement

Achievements

32

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateMar 3, 2016
DeveloperBaroque Decay
PublisherNeon Doctrine
Base price$1.99 -80%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksMetacritic page · [email protected]

Content Notes

The Count Lucanor is a psychological horror title that contains violence perpetrated against the main character which can lead to gruesome results. The game is pixel art so this depiction is not realistic.

Editions & Packages

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