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ANONYMOUS;CODE

MAGES. Inc. · Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. · 2023-09-08

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Adventure

Franchise: Science Adventure · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jul 28, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Jul 28, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 08, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Hack Into God

80%
positive of 561 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
76/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
4.37★
PlayStation Store rating (92 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$59.99
steam price (US)
Anonymous;Code is a 2022 visual novel video game developed by Mages and Chiyomaru Studio, and is the sixth mainline entry in the Science Adventure series. Along with being a visual novel, it also has a fully working implementation of Conway's Game of Life built in that can be accessed via the in-game menu. Following a series of delays, the game was released for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on July 28, 2022 in Japan. A western English release, published by Spike Chunsoft, was announced in July 2022 with a Windows port, and released on September 8, 2023.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 79 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 26,262 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 561 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$59.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2025-07-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days · $48.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12412420232026Week of 2023-09-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$11.992023-09-082026-10-082023-09-08 — best price $53.992023-11-22 — best price $47.992023-12-21 — best price $47.992024-03-07 — best price $35.992024-04-25 — best price $35.992024-06-27 — best price $35.992024-10-15 — best price $29.992024-11-27 — best price $29.992024-12-19 — best price $17.992025-01-16 — best price $17.992025-03-03 — best price $17.992025-03-13 — best price $17.992025-04-25 — best price $17.992025-06-08 — best price $17.992025-06-27 — best price $17.992025-07-27 — best price $11.992025-09-29 — best price $17.992025-10-27 — best price $17.992025-12-18 — best price $17.992026-01-23 — best price $17.992026-03-09 — best price $11.992026-04-21 — best price $17.992026-06-04 — best price $17.992026-06-25 — best price $17.992026-08-05 — best price $11.992026-10-01 — best price $17.992026-10-08 — best price $59.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

126372026-07-11 — 80 pageviews2026-07-14 — 73 pageviews2026-07-17 — 63 pageviews2026-07-20 — 61 pageviews2026-07-23 — 68 pageviews2026-07-26 — 64 pageviews2026-07-29 — 71 pageviews2026-08-01 — 57 pageviews2026-08-04 — 44 pageviews2026-08-07 — 64 pageviews2026-08-10 — 74 pageviews2026-08-13 — 88 pageviews2026-08-16 — 100 pageviews2026-08-19 — 107 pageviews2026-08-22 — 97 pageviews2026-08-25 — 76 pageviews2026-08-28 — 82 pageviews2026-08-31 — 73 pageviews2026-09-03 — 62 pageviews2026-09-06 — 78 pageviews2026-09-09 — 69 pageviews2026-09-12 — 54 pageviews2026-09-15 — 69 pageviews2026-09-18 — 58 pageviews2026-09-21 — 83 pageviews2026-09-24 — 59 pageviews2026-09-27 — 70 pageviews2026-09-30 — 44 pageviews2026-10-03 — 61 pageviews2026-10-06 — 56 pageviews2026-10-07 — 59 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
60.4%
earned "A World-Changing Encounter"
36.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing2 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-09-08 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)33279%31
Steam (Steam)30341%31
PS4 (PlayStation)14772%31
PS4 (PlayStation)13976%31
Switch (Nintendo)220%0
Switch (Nintendo)150%0
Switch (Nintendo)50%0

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

Player tags

AnimeSci-fiHackingRomanceAdventureStory RichSingleplayerVisual NovelInvestigationChoices Matter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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