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AIR cover art

AIR

VISUAL ARTS/Key · VISUAL ARTS · 2025-03-05

Steam

AdventureCasualSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Sep 08, 2016 (PlayStation Vita), Sep 09, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 05, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Summer stretches on endlessly. Beneath the vast blue sky. Beneath the air in which she awaits— AIR, the second game released by visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring the side story novel, "First Sky Chapter" and full voice support!

98%
positive of 931 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)
Air is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key, a brand of Visual Arts. It was released on September 8, 2000, for Windows as an adult game. Key later released versions of Air without the erotic content, and the game was ported to the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita and Nintendo Switch. The story follows the life of Yukito Kunisaki, a traveling showman searching for the "girl in the sky". He arrives in a quiet, seaside town where he meets three girls, one of whom is the key to the end of his journey.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 88 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~11/week).
  • · Review velocity up 63% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 28,690 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–42k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 931 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $10.49 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
13313320252026Week of 2025-03-05: 133 positiveWeek of 2025-03-05: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-12: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-03-19: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-03-26: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-02: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-09: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-16: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-07: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-14: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-28: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-25: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-02: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-09: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-16: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-30: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-06: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-13: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-20: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-27: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-17: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-08: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-15: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-12: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-19: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-26: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-12-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-17: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-24: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-31: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-07: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-21: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-04: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-18: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-04: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-18: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-08: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-22: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-06: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-13: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-27: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-10: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-24: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-15: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-22: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-29: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-05: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-12: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-08-19: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-26: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-09-02: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-09-09: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$10.492025-03-052026-10-082025-03-05 — best price $26.992025-03-19 — best price $29.992025-06-27 — best price $23.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-09-29 — best price $20.992025-10-06 — best price $29.992025-11-21 — best price $17.992025-11-28 — best price $29.992025-12-18 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-03-19 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-06-25 — best price $10.492026-07-09 — best price $29.992026-07-20 — best price $11.992026-07-27 — best price $29.992026-08-31 — best price $11.992026-09-07 — best price $29.992026-10-01 — best price $10.492026-10-08 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

177762026-07-16 — 103 pageviews2026-07-19 — 112 pageviews2026-07-22 — 145 pageviews2026-07-25 — 141 pageviews2026-07-28 — 133 pageviews2026-07-31 — 132 pageviews2026-08-03 — 125 pageviews2026-08-06 — 122 pageviews2026-08-09 — 111 pageviews2026-08-12 — 144 pageviews2026-08-15 — 111 pageviews2026-08-18 — 111 pageviews2026-08-21 — 136 pageviews2026-08-24 — 125 pageviews2026-08-27 — 145 pageviews2026-08-30 — 130 pageviews2026-09-02 — 153 pageviews2026-09-05 — 121 pageviews2026-09-08 — 177 pageviews2026-09-11 — 122 pageviews2026-09-14 — 97 pageviews2026-09-17 — 110 pageviews2026-09-20 — 114 pageviews2026-09-23 — 121 pageviews2026-09-26 — 116 pageviews2026-09-29 — 144 pageviews2026-10-02 — 94 pageviews2026-10-05 — 140 pageviews2026-10-08 — 100 pageviews2026-10-11 — 87 pageviews2026-10-13 — 76 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
26.5%
earned "Re-Departure"
17.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Input API SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeDramaCasualRomanceAdventureEmotionalLore-RichDating Sim

Census log

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

Recent updates

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