Arise: A Simple Story

Arise: A Simple Story

Released Dec 2020

Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.

91% positive · 3,186 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Arise: A Simple Story is a self-contained narrative adventure game that launched on December 3, 2020. The game's description presents it as a complete emotional story — there are no hints of ongoing chapters, expansions, or additional content. All four DLC items listed on the store are supplementary extras (soundtrack, main theme, wallpapers, and an artbook), all released between March and May 2022. None of these represent additional gameplay content. There have been no developer news posts signaling major updates, expansions, announcements, or any post-launch development activity. This is consistent with a game that launched as a finished, self-contained product and was followed only by cosmetic/collector DLC. No further content has been announced or is pending.
Evidence
All four DLC items are released and are purely supplementary extras: an OST, a main theme track, wallpapers, and an artbook. No gameplay DLC or expansions exist.
dlc listing · Mar 29, 2022 source content shipped
high
49 developer news posts were scanned and none contained content announcements, patches, development updates, or any signal of ongoing work. The developer has not communicated any plans for additional content.
news post development ending
high

Content

4 of 4 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Untold Tales
Achievements
34
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · Local/Split Screen

About this game

Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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