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Blue Archive

NEXON Games · NEXON Korea · 2025-07-03

Steam

AdventureCasualRPGStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jul 03, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 08, 2021 (Android), Feb 04, 2021 (iOS)

An action anime RPG adventure!

Blue Archive is an Adventure, Casual, RPG, Strategy game released in 2025, free-to-play, with a Mixed review sentiment (64% of 28123 reviews).

2,309
playing now
65%
positive of 28k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
4
twitch viewers (latest)
2.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
83/100
IGDB user rating (38 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (27 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

2,309 players in-game as of 2026-09-17 01:00 UTC (census sample)

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.

Trailer

Blue Archive trailer thumbnail

[Blue Archive] 6th PV

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 2,309 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 802 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~100/week).
  • · Review velocity down 88% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (10,348 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 29,175 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-30

Tier history: healthy→cooling (Sep 30), thriving→healthy (Sep 16), healthy→thriving (Sep 16)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-08-28: 51 negativeWeek of 2026-09-04: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-09-04: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-09-11: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-09-11: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-09-18: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-09-18: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-09-25: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-09-25: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-10-02: 52 positiveWeek of 2026-10-02: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-10-09: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-10-09: 16 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5.4k02026-09-15 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-15 23:00 — 2,787 players2026-09-16 00:00 — 2,945 players2026-09-16 01:00 — 3,067 players2026-09-16 02:00 — 3,253 players2026-09-16 03:00 — 3,338 players2026-09-16 04:00 — 3,434 players2026-09-16 05:00 — 3,557 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 3,316 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 3,686 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 3,269 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 3,344 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 4,764 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 5,110 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 5,376 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 4,912 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 4,308 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 3,484 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 2,822 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 2,883 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 2,141 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 2,119 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 2,128 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 2,309 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
8.3k3.7kJul 2025Aug 2026Jul 2025 — avg 8,287 · peak 22,049Aug 2025 — avg 4,663 · peak 13,199Sep 2025 — avg 4,309 · peak 26,338Oct 2025 — avg 4,129 · peak 9,163Nov 2025 — avg 3,739 · peak 10,837Dec 2025 — avg 5,178 · peak 18,323Jan 2026 — avg 4,248 · peak 11,031Feb 2026 — avg 3,689 · peak 9,525Mar 2026 — avg 3,663 · peak 11,627Apr 2026 — avg 3,689 · peak 10,337May 2026 — avg 4,557 · peak 15,307Jun 2026 — avg 5,590 · peak 18,252Jul 2026 — avg 3,745 · peak 9,854Aug 2026 — avg 3,738 · peak 18,730
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#79#792026-09-152026-09-172026-09-15 — #792026-09-16 — #792026-09-17 — #79
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
11112026-09-172026-10-082026-09-17: 11 new positive2026-09-18: 4 new positive2026-09-18: 1 new negative2026-09-23: 4 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-24: 2 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 6 new positive2026-09-28: 2 new negative2026-10-01: 2 new positive2026-10-01: 3 new negative2026-10-03: 7 new positive2026-10-03: 1 new negative2026-10-08: 5 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

1.2k3352026-06-02 — 581 pageviews2026-06-06 — 530 pageviews2026-06-10 — 601 pageviews2026-06-14 — 518 pageviews2026-06-18 — 529 pageviews2026-06-22 — 767 pageviews2026-06-26 — 534 pageviews2026-06-30 — 499 pageviews2026-07-04 — 680 pageviews2026-07-08 — 451 pageviews2026-07-12 — 537 pageviews2026-07-16 — 448 pageviews2026-07-20 — 510 pageviews2026-07-24 — 527 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1,171 pageviews2026-08-01 — 594 pageviews2026-08-05 — 517 pageviews2026-08-09 — 479 pageviews2026-08-13 — 488 pageviews2026-08-17 — 578 pageviews2026-08-21 — 512 pageviews2026-08-25 — 484 pageviews2026-08-29 — 555 pageviews2026-09-02 — 559 pageviews2026-09-06 — 501 pageviews2026-09-10 — 521 pageviews2026-09-14 — 422 pageviews2026-09-18 — 480 pageviews2026-09-22 — 417 pageviews2026-09-26 — 402 pageviews2026-09-30 — 366 pageviews2026-10-04 — 497 pageviews2026-10-08 — 498 pageviews2026-10-12 — 428 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

12902026-10-01 14:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-01 23:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-02 08:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-02 17:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-03 02:34 — 68 viewers2026-10-03 11:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-03 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-04 23:34 — 52 viewers2026-10-05 08:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-05 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 02:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-06 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 14:34 — 48 viewers2026-10-07 23:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-08 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-08 17:34 — 22 viewers2026-10-09 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 11:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-09 20:35 — 31 viewers2026-10-10 05:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-10 14:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-10 23:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-11 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 17:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-12 02:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-12 11:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-12 20:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-13 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 14:34 — 96 viewers2026-10-13 23:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-14 08:34 — 32 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-15 02:34 — 36 viewers2026-10-15 11:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-15 13:34 — 4 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

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.

Recent updates

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