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Stories: The Path of Destinies

Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.

Action AdventureAction RPGRole-Playing

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Player score
8.8/10
6,598 reviews
Released
2016
Developer
Spearhead Games
Platforms
1 systems
Critics
74
Steam Deck
verified
Download
2 GB
We have not written a full review of this game.This is a catalogue entry: everything below comes from a source we can link, checked on a stated date. There is no score and no verdict here, because we only publish those after a reviewer has played the game and written it up properly. Our team may well have played this one. Until someone writes the review, we are not going to imply a verdict we have not put our name to.

What is Stories: The Path of Destinies?

Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.

Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.

The record

Catalogue facts
First released11 April 2016
DeveloperSpearhead Games
PublisherSpearhead Games
PlatformsPC
GenresAction Adventure, Action RPG, Role-Playing
Languages7 supported

Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata , seeded TBA. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.

How was Stories: The Path of Destinies received?

Players88%positive of 6,598 · Very Positive
Metacritic74critic aggregate, PC
Achievements37on Steam

Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.

Accessibility

1 declared features

Seeing

None declared

Hearing

None declared

Input

  • Full controller support

Difficulty

None declared

Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

What does it support?

Technical support
CapabilitySupport
Controllerfull support
Cloud savesYes
Cross-platform playNo
Mod supportNo official workshop
Online playSingle-player only
In-game purchasesNo
Steam Deckverified
Download size2 GB
Add-on content2 DLC listed
Age gateNone

Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.

What does it cost?

$14.99

Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.

Is Stories: The Path of Destinies worth it?

88% of 6,598 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $14.99 on Steam, and critics score it 74/100. About 3 people were playing at once when we last checked, so it is still active.

That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. We have not published our own review of this game.

How long is Stories: The Path of Destinies? How long to beat it

Total play time for Stories: The Path of Destinies is about 20.2 hours to do everything, and around 5.2 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.

Stories: The Path of Destinies length by how much you play
How you playHoursPlayers logged
Just the main story: straight through the critical path5.2h198
Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do7.4h173
Completionist: everything: 100% the game20.2h106

At its current price of $14.99, beating the main story works out to about $2.88 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.

Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.

Stories: The Path of Destinies system requirements

The minimum requirements from Stories: The Path of Destinies's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.

Stories: The Path of Destinies minimum requirements
Memory4 GB RAM (other games at this level)
ProcessorIntel CPU Core i3-2500K 2.0GHz+ / AMD CPU Phenom II 570
GraphicsGeForce 8800 GTX · runs on a low-end GPU
Storage2 GB (more games this size)
System64-bit OS required

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Where Stories: The Path of Destinies sits on the grid

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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

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Is Stories: The Path of Destinies still active? Players right now

3concurrent playerssnapshot, 19 October 2026
4%busier than this shareof the 1,496 games we track
6,521Steam reviews writtenevery one an owner

Stories: The Path of Destinies has a small, niche following: 3 people were playing at once when we last read Steam on 19 October 2026. This is a snapshot, not a live counter, and it is a recent concurrent reading rather than an all-time record. For what is trending across the catalogue right now, see the pulse.

How many people own Stories: The Path of Destinies

2.0M–5.0MEstimated owners on Steama band, not a figure · SteamSpy
6,521Reviews writtena floor: every one owns it
3Playing at peak, recentlyconcurrent players

This is an estimate, not a sales figure, and the two are not interchangeable. SteamSpy samples public profiles and publishes a range; the range here spans a factor of 2.5, and that width is the honest part of it. We show both ends rather than a midpoint, because a midpoint would look like a measurement.

Steam only. Console and storefront sales are not counted, so a game that sold heavily elsewhere reads low here. Read on 19 October 2026. Where a publisher has announced a real unit figure, that appears separately and carries its source.

Estimated sales for Stories: The Path of Destinies

These are estimates, not reported figures. Spearhead Games has not published unit sales for Stories: The Path of Destinies, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.

198K–396KEstimated copies soldon Steam, lifetime
$979K–$3.9MEstimated player spendbefore Valve's cut
$685K–$2.7MEstimated to the publisherafter the 30% platform cut

How this was calculated

Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.

Sales estimate working
Reviews on Steam6,598
Sales per review30 to 60
List price$14.99
Assumed average selling price33% to 66% of list
SteamSpy owner estimate2.0M–5.0M, a different measure, see below

What this cannot tell you

Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.

The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.

The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.

Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.

If Spearhead Games publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.

Stories: The Path of Destinies price & deals: is it on sale?

We have one reading so far: $14.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.

What readers say about Stories: The Path of Destinies

Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.

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Games like Stories: The Path of Destinies

24 games overlap with Stories: The Path of Destinies on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Bastion, Xuan-Yuan Sword VII and Divine Divinity.

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Common questions about Stories: The Path of Destinies

What platforms is Stories: The Path of Destinies on?

Stories: The Path of Destinies is available on PC. It first released in 2016.

How much does Stories: The Path of Destinies cost?

$14.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.

Do players recommend Stories: The Path of Destinies?

88% of 6,598 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.

What is the Metacritic score for Stories: The Path of Destinies?

74 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.

Does Stories: The Path of Destinies work on Steam Deck?

Valve rates Stories: The Path of Destinies as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.

How big is the Stories: The Path of Destinies download?

2 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.

Who made Stories: The Path of Destinies?

Stories: The Path of Destinies was developed by Spearhead Games and published by Spearhead Games.

Is Stories: The Path of Destinies worth it in 2026?

88% of 6,598 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $14.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.

Is Stories: The Path of Destinies dead?

No. About 3 people were in-game at once when we last read Steam's concurrent-player figure. Peak activity is higher; this is a recent snapshot, not the all-time peak.

Is Stories: The Path of Destinies on sale?

Not at the moment. Stories: The Path of Destinies is at its $14.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.