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428: Shibuya Scramble cover art

428: Shibuya Scramble

Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. · 2018-09-04

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Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 04, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 04, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Dec 04, 2008 (Wii), Sep 03, 2009 (PlayStation 3), Nov 03, 2011 (iOS), Nov 03, 2011 (Android)

A kidnapping on the streets of Shibuya brings together a hot-blooded detective, hard-hitting journalist, former gang leader, the head researcher of a big pharma manufacturer and a part-timer stuck in cat costume for a series of events each more unexpected and outrageous than the last.

37
playing now
95%
positive of 3.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
83/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
90/100
IGDB user rating (24 ratings)
28h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$49.99
steam price (US)

37 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

428: Shibuya Scramble is a visual novel adventure video game produced by Koichi Nakamura with Jiro Ishii serving as executive producer, developed by Nakamura's company Chunsoft, and initially published by Sega, originally in Japan for the Wii on December 4, 2008. The game was ported by Spike to the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable in September 2009. A version for iOS and Android was released in November 2011. PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows versions were released internationally in September 2018.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 37 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 605 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~76/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 11,331 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 99k–237k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,944 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2025-01-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $49.99 · on sale 8 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
17717720182026Week of 2018-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

6882026-08-11 18:00 — 23 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 36 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 15 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 33 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 57 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 24 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 39 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 65 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 21 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 33 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 49 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 13 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 41 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 45 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 10 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 58 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 42 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 13 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 65 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 29 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 68 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 42 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 50 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 28 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 13 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 56 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 37 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$49.99$4.992018-09-052026-07-092018-09-05 — best price $49.992018-12-20 — best price $29.992019-05-06 — best price $49.992019-08-08 — best price $9.992019-11-01 — best price $49.992020-03-03 — best price $9.992020-05-06 — best price $49.992020-11-09 — best price $9.992021-01-05 — best price $49.992021-06-24 — best price $9.992021-10-04 — best price $49.992021-11-24 — best price $7.492022-01-05 — best price $49.992022-04-28 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $49.992022-11-22 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $49.992023-03-16 — best price $19.992023-05-08 — best price $49.992023-08-07 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $49.992024-03-07 — best price $14.992024-05-06 — best price $49.992024-10-28 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $49.992025-01-16 — best price $4.992025-03-10 — best price $49.992025-04-25 — best price $12.492025-06-15 — best price $49.992025-08-25 — best price $12.492025-10-06 — best price $49.992025-12-18 — best price $12.492026-02-06 — best price $49.992026-04-21 — best price $9.992026-06-11 — best price $49.992026-07-09 — best price $49.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

496912026-05-30 — 126 pageviews2026-06-02 — 139 pageviews2026-06-05 — 151 pageviews2026-06-08 — 131 pageviews2026-06-11 — 212 pageviews2026-06-14 — 190 pageviews2026-06-17 — 157 pageviews2026-06-20 — 143 pageviews2026-06-23 — 134 pageviews2026-06-26 — 156 pageviews2026-06-29 — 143 pageviews2026-07-02 — 167 pageviews2026-07-05 — 170 pageviews2026-07-08 — 151 pageviews2026-07-11 — 131 pageviews2026-07-14 — 129 pageviews2026-07-17 — 138 pageviews2026-07-20 — 122 pageviews2026-07-23 — 112 pageviews2026-07-26 — 153 pageviews2026-07-29 — 132 pageviews2026-08-01 — 106 pageviews2026-08-04 — 153 pageviews2026-08-07 — 91 pageviews2026-08-10 — 144 pageviews2026-08-13 — 176 pageviews2026-08-16 — 137 pageviews2026-08-19 — 130 pageviews2026-08-22 — 161 pageviews2026-08-25 — 121 pageviews2026-08-27 — 104 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
55.4%
earned "Welcome to Shibuya"
10.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,32523%27
PS4 (PlayStation)1,19654%27
PS4 (PlayStation)1,08850%27
PS4 (PlayStation)67071%27
Steam (Steam)19230%27

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FMVFunnyMysteryViolentAdventureDetectiveStory RichVisual NovelChoices MatterGreat Soundtrack

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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