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Blue Wednesday

Buff Studio · 2023-08-28

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 28, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 27, 2025 (Xbox One), Mar 27, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 27, 2025 (PlayStation 4), Mar 27, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Apr 28, 2024 (iOS)

Blue Wednesday is a relaxing and lovely adventure game focused on story, music, and characters. Explore the city, meet various characters, and have conversations. Listen to their stories, play mini-games, collect music albums, and play music.

85%
positive of 219 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
3.87★
PlayStation Store rating (135 ratings)
3h
time to beat (IGDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 16,510 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.4k–9.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 219 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$1.49-90%
GOG$8.99-40%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2026-05-11) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 34 of 58 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320232026Week of 2023-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$1.492023-08-282026-09-152023-08-28 — best price $17.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992023-12-21 — best price $11.992024-02-06 — best price $19.992024-03-06 — best price $19.992024-04-04 — best price $19.992024-05-16 — best price $11.992024-06-27 — best price $5.992024-08-07 — best price $19.992024-09-25 — best price $11.992024-10-16 — best price $11.992024-11-27 — best price $5.992025-01-03 — best price $19.992025-02-13 — best price $7.992025-03-08 — best price $19.992025-04-03 — best price $19.992025-04-28 — best price $14.992025-06-02 — best price $5.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-08-11 — best price $5.992025-09-22 — best price $5.992025-10-09 — best price $4.492025-11-10 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $5.992026-02-12 — best price $14.992026-02-28 — best price $14.992026-03-30 — best price $4.492026-04-24 — best price $8.992026-05-18 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $2.992026-07-24 — best price $8.992026-08-28 — best price $14.992026-09-15 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
81.2%
earned "Broken Piano"
26.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

13 supported languages: English, Korean, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Thai, Traditional Chinese…

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-08-28, latest 2023-09-26 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)9134%18
Steam (Steam)5920%18
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)3225%18
PS4 (PlayStation)3040%18
Switch (Nintendo)60%0

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

Player tags

2DMusicColorfulStylizedAdventureNarrativeWholesomeHand-drawnStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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