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Blue Archive

NEXON Games · NEXON Korea · 2025-07-03

Steam

AdventureCasualRPGStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

An action anime RPG adventure!

64%
positive of 28k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)
Blue Archive is a 2021 real-time strategy role-playing game developed by MX Studio, under the management umbrella of Nexon Games and IO Division. The player and protagonist is a sensei who was summoned from outside the academic city-state of Kivotos by the president of the General Student Council, an extrajudicial committee governing the culturally rich regional school districts. Following her sudden disappearance, criminal activity rises around Kivotos and the player is tasked by the remaining members of the council to resolve issues that crop up and help search for the president.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 6,844 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~856/week).
  • · Review velocity up 477% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 11,638 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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9.6k9.6k20252026Week of 2025-07-04: 9,609 positiveWeek of 2025-07-04: 739 negativeWeek of 2025-07-11: 1,532 positiveWeek of 2025-07-11: 230 negativeWeek of 2025-07-18: 746 positiveWeek of 2025-07-18: 116 negativeWeek of 2025-07-25: 362 positiveWeek of 2025-07-25: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2025-08-08: 238 positiveWeek of 2025-08-08: 42 negativeWeek of 2025-08-15: 245 positiveWeek of 2025-08-15: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-08-22: 244 positiveWeek of 2025-08-22: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-08-29: 179 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-09-05: 171 positiveWeek of 2025-09-05: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-09-12: 140 positiveWeek of 2025-09-12: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-09-19: 234 positiveWeek of 2025-09-19: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-09-26: 205 positiveWeek of 2025-09-26: 32 negativeWeek of 2025-10-03: 169 positiveWeek of 2025-10-03: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-10-10: 128 positiveWeek of 2025-10-10: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-10-17: 158 positiveWeek of 2025-10-17: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-10-24: 107 positiveWeek of 2025-10-24: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-10-31: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-10-31: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-11-07: 137 positiveWeek of 2025-11-07: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-14: 124 positiveWeek of 2025-11-14: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-11-21: 1,373 positiveWeek of 2025-11-21: 32 negativeWeek of 2025-11-28: 677 positiveWeek of 2025-11-28: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-12-05: 102 positiveWeek of 2025-12-05: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-12-12: 239 positiveWeek of 2025-12-12: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-12-19: 217 positiveWeek of 2025-12-19: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-12-26: 167 positiveWeek of 2025-12-26: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-01-02: 123 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-01-09: 129 positiveWeek of 2026-01-09: 28 negativeWeek of 2026-01-16: 104 positiveWeek of 2026-01-16: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-01-23: 88 positiveWeek of 2026-01-23: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-01-30: 75 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-02-06: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-02-06: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-13: 103 positiveWeek of 2026-02-13: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-20: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-02-20: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-02-27: 69 positiveWeek of 2026-02-27: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-06: 97 positiveWeek of 2026-03-06: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-13: 79 positiveWeek of 2026-03-13: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-03-20: 82 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-03-27: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-03-27: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-03: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-04-03: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-04-10: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-04-10: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-04-17: 75 positiveWeek of 2026-04-17: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-04-24: 90 positiveWeek of 2026-04-24: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-05-08: 82 positiveWeek of 2026-05-08: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-05-15: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-05-15: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-22: 177 positiveWeek of 2026-05-22: 28 negativeWeek of 2026-05-29: 153 positiveWeek of 2026-05-29: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-06-05: 143 positiveWeek of 2026-06-05: 40 negativeWeek of 2026-06-12: 150 positiveWeek of 2026-06-12: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-06-19: 105 positiveWeek of 2026-06-19: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-06-26: 133 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-03: 103 positiveWeek of 2026-07-03: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-07-10: 111 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-17: 95 positiveWeek of 2026-07-17: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-24: 145 positiveWeek of 2026-07-24: 5,230 negativeWeek of 2026-07-31: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 513 negativeWeek of 2026-08-07: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-08-07: 105 negativeWeek of 2026-08-14: 92 positiveWeek of 2026-08-14: 148 negativeWeek of 2026-08-21: 67 positiveWeek of 2026-08-21: 63 negativeWeek of 2026-08-28: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-08-28: 26 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerIn-App PurchasesCustom Volume ControlsMouse Only OptionStereo SoundSubtitle OptionsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Traditional Chinese, Thai

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.

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