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and Roger

TearyHand Studio · Kodansha · 2025-07-23

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 24, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 24, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 24, 2025 (Mac), Jun 17, 2026 (Nintendo Switch 2)

It was a morning like all others, until she realized her dad wasn't home. In his place, a stranger who speaks nonsense and insists she "takes her medicine". Who is he? Where is dad?

95%
positive of 2.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
80/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
1h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)
And Roger is a 2025 video game developed by TearyHand Studio and published by Kodansha. The game is a visual novel in which players complete basic household tasks through interactive gameplay and puzzles. Players assume the role of Sofia, who first appears as a girl struggling with delusions affecting her reality, and later as a woman experiencing dementia.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 325 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~41/week).
  • · Review velocity up 139% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 54k–121k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,681 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.49 at Steam (2026-01-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
26926920252026Week of 2025-07-23: 166 positiveWeek of 2025-07-23: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-30: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-07-30: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-06: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-08-06: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-13: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-08-13: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-20: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-08-27: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-08-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-03: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-09-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-10: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-17: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-24: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-08: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-15: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-22: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-05: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-12: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-19: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-11-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-26: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-11-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-03: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-12-03: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-10: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-12-10: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-17: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-12-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-24: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-12-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-31: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-12-31: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-07: 135 positiveWeek of 2026-01-07: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-14: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-01-14: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-21: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-01-21: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-28: 269 positiveWeek of 2026-01-28: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-04: 146 positiveWeek of 2026-02-04: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-11: 79 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-18: 77 positiveWeek of 2026-02-18: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-25: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-04: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-03-04: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-11: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-03-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-18: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-03-18: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-25: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-03-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-04-08: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-04-08: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-15: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-22: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-04-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-29: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-04-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-06: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-13: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-20: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-05-27: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-03: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-06-10: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-17: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-06-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-24: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-06-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-08: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-15: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-07-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-22: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-07-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-29: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-08-05: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-08-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-12: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-08-12: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$3.492025-07-232026-07-092025-07-23 — best price $3.992025-08-06 — best price $4.992025-09-22 — best price $3.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-01-28 — best price $3.492026-02-11 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $3.492026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-06-17 — best price $3.492026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

221332026-05-17 — 46 pageviews2026-05-20 — 51 pageviews2026-05-23 — 38 pageviews2026-05-26 — 39 pageviews2026-05-29 — 68 pageviews2026-06-01 — 53 pageviews2026-06-04 — 88 pageviews2026-06-07 — 92 pageviews2026-06-10 — 62 pageviews2026-06-13 — 58 pageviews2026-06-16 — 75 pageviews2026-06-19 — 186 pageviews2026-06-22 — 106 pageviews2026-06-25 — 221 pageviews2026-06-28 — 102 pageviews2026-07-01 — 108 pageviews2026-07-04 — 91 pageviews2026-07-07 — 97 pageviews2026-07-10 — 83 pageviews2026-07-13 — 76 pageviews2026-07-16 — 71 pageviews2026-07-19 — 67 pageviews2026-07-22 — 75 pageviews2026-07-25 — 60 pageviews2026-07-28 — 53 pageviews2026-07-31 — 65 pageviews2026-08-03 — 137 pageviews2026-08-06 — 75 pageviews2026-08-09 — 68 pageviews2026-08-12 — 57 pageviews2026-08-15 — 45 pageviews2026-08-18 — 50 pageviews2026-08-20 — 75 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
95.7%
earned "Good Night"
80.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCustom Volume ControlsMouse Only OptionDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSave AnytimeStereo SoundSteam Cloud1 DLC

29 supported languages: English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Dutch…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)77325%15
Switch (Nintendo)900%0
Switch (Nintendo)320%0

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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