Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Dive into an epic story of honor and courage and help a Geisha and a Samurai save the day.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun is a casual, indie and match 3 game developed and published by Green Sauce Games.
Released on February 27th 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 10 languages: English, French, German, Czech, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Italian, Spanish - Spain and Dutch.

It has received 384 reviews of which 315 were positive and 69 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.92€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun into these genres:

Casual Indie Match 3 Puzzle Singleplayer Strategy Anime Adventure City Builder 2D Cartoon Colorful Atmospheric Family Friendly Historical Building Fantasy Controller Female Protagonist Soundtrack

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: XP/Vista/7/8
  • Processor: 1.5 GHz
  • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 MB
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 100 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: 10.6 or later
  • Processor: Intel Mac Only
  • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 512 MB
  • Storage: 100 MB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or later
  • Processor: 1.5 GHz
  • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 512 MB
  • Storage: 100 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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June 2025
one of green sauce's early m3s from 2015, with a rotatable board not seen in many of their other games ( dreams of a geisha , their first game might be the only one, plus the season match series by another dev). it also offers swap, pop and chain options, another thing that got forgotten about (it's in their other early game, joan of arc ), these days they just reskin the same simplified m3 thing over and over. or re-release their older titles without a word about the original on the store page (e.g. geisha again). 100 levels, then 'free play' that just means a level select screen not available until then. limited/unlimited moves, pop/swap/chain can be chosen before each level but chains only work in cardinal directions, can't do diagonals. matches create unsatisfying bombs (click to trigger, can be swapped), a village to build for bonuses (mostly moves, irrelevant for unlimited play), the works. board rotation isn't limited, nor does it need to be charged. shuffle has a long cooldown and unlocked destructive power-ups need matches of certain tiles to build up. the expected decent presentation with pretty good music, separate volumes (sfx is bugged, clicking buttons still makes a sound if muted), languages, resizable windowed mode, custom cursor, help and hint toggles. unfortunately, the end-of-level score counter can't be skipped or sped up, the continue button only appears after. buildings take unnecessarily long to build as well, gotta look at the same 3-frame animation for a while. it's good enough for what it is if you catch it on sale, but even with all the options for gameplay, it's not as fun as I expected. rotation only does something if there are empty cells, lots of waiting around for shuffle to charge when there are no moves left, so I stuck to swapping. and even after a supposed fix, no achievements unlocked for me but I don't care about that.
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Jan. 2025
An outstanding match-3 puzzle game where the player rebuilds communities with the geisha and samurai. The graphics and puzzle mechanics are very impressive; they can be played through match-3, chain or block formats - in relaxed or challenge modes. Clearly, I became "addicted" to the game perhaps 10 years ago as it is simply the type of match-3 game which cannot be stopped. Full credit to developers Green Sauce!
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Aug. 2024
7/10
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Aug. 2024
Fine little match-3 game. I love the gameplay loop of slowly building up a town with resources collected through match-3 levels, and this game utilizes that mechanic to an extent. The setting is fine and the soundtrack unexpectedly goes hard sometimes. Being able to switch up the game mode after every level keeps it a little bit more interesting. What I don't love is how the rules seem to change on you. It's at times unpredictable where new tiles come from (ie you expect them to fall down, but instead a new tile will just appear in the empty spot), tiles used in a match don't always register as used in terms of the layers/locks it breaks, some edges at the top of the level randomly don't spawn new tiles, and I could go on. It's kind of a mess sometimes. The challenge mode is unreasonably hard. Just play on relaxed mode. The sound mixing is quite off, some sound effects (especially when compounded in combo moves) are straight-up uncomfortable for your ears if you play with headphones. But really, all in all it's fine, just a nice relaxing match-3 town builder.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun received 315 positive votes out of a total of 384 achieving a rating of 7.67.
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Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun was developed and published by Green Sauce Games.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun is a single-player game.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun does not currently offer any DLC.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun does not support Steam Remote Play.

Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun
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