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徒花異譚 / Adabana Odd Tales

Liar-soft · ANIPLEX.EXE · 2020-06-18

Steam

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Dec 16, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 18, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 16, 2021 (iOS), Dec 14, 2021 (Android)

"This is a tale of 'flowers' that never bloom." Shirohime, a girl who has lost her memory, and Kurofude, a mysterious boy, traverse through classic Japanese fairy tales within the land of Adabana, a realm of illustrated books. What awaits them after they mend the distorted tales?

96%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$17.99
steam price (US)

A girl finds herself in a dark and unfamiliar forest when a monster appears out of nowhere and attacks. A mysterious boy, wielding a brush as if it were a sword, appears just in time to cut down the monster. He calls himself Kurofude, and he addresses the girl in a familiar tone as Shirohime. Yet she does not recognize him or the name he calls her. She has lost all of her memories. According to Kurofude, they are in the land of Adabana, a realm of illustrated books. Their tales are like dreams; no matter how deeply one immerses oneself in them, once one wakes up, they are gone. Thus the name(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 63 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 14,059 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 22k–49k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,085 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.19 at Steam (2026-06-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-10-27 (Steam store data)

Player tags

AnimeCasualAdventureStory RichVisual NovelGreat SoundtrackMultiple Endings

Census log

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