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Adolescent Santa Claus

TALESSHOP Co., Ltd. · 2018-06-30

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jul 20, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

This visual novel game tells the tale of a cute little Santa Clause appearing

Adolescent Santa Claus is a free-to-play Adventure, Casual, Indie, and Free To Play game released in 2018, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (85% of 1329 reviews).

0
playing now
86%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

An young girl calling herself Santa Claus appears in some persons room. The young girl claims that she's back to get back the hopes and dreams that she had given out to this person along with the hopes and dreams that she had given out to everyone else she had given them to, along with interest.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 45 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (223 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
19219220182026Week of 2018-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-10-12 (Steam store data)

Player tags

CuteAnimeIndieShortCasualAdventureStory RichFree to PlaySingleplayerVisual Novel

Census log

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

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