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BUSTAFELLOWS cover art

BUSTAFELLOWS

NIPPON CULTURAL BROADCASTING EXTEND INC. · PQube · 2021-07-30

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Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 30, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 30, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A new visual novel from the legendary eXtend! Mixing dangerous romance with murder mystery, BUSTAFELLOWS is a steamy noir mystery that will make you shiver but ask for more!

3
playing now
86%
positive of 1.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
92/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$39.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Bustafellows is a 2019 otome game and visual novel developed by Tokyo-based studio eXtend. It was released for Nintendo Switch and mobile devices in Japan, and an English version was released for Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows in 2021. A sequel titled Bustafellows Season 2 was released in 2023 in Japan, and an English version was released in 2025. A third game called BUSTAFELLOWS FULLCIRCLE has been announced.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 21k–47k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,041 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

932026-08-12 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 12:00 — 9 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 5 players2026-08-14 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 8 players2026-08-29 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 8 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$1.992021-07-302026-07-302021-07-30 — best price $35.992021-09-29 — best price $35.992021-10-28 — best price $33.992021-11-24 — best price $31.992021-12-22 — best price $29.992022-01-27 — best price $27.992022-05-09 — best price $27.992022-06-24 — best price $26.792022-09-08 — best price $25.992022-11-22 — best price $25.992022-12-22 — best price $23.992023-02-14 — best price $21.992023-03-16 — best price $21.992023-05-09 — best price $19.992023-06-30 — best price $19.992023-08-07 — best price $17.992023-09-14 — best price $17.992023-11-21 — best price $15.992023-12-21 — best price $13.992024-01-29 — best price $13.192024-03-06 — best price $11.992024-03-14 — best price $11.992024-05-22 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $7.992024-09-12 — best price $5.992024-11-27 — best price $3.992024-12-19 — best price $1.992025-03-03 — best price $31.992025-03-13 — best price $31.992025-05-19 — best price $31.992025-06-26 — best price $31.992025-09-24 — best price $31.992025-11-24 — best price $31.992025-12-18 — best price $31.992026-02-13 — best price $31.992026-03-19 — best price $31.992026-05-04 — best price $31.992026-06-25 — best price $31.992026-07-23 — best price $31.992026-07-30 — best price $39.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4832026-05-29 — 9 pageviews2026-06-01 — 13 pageviews2026-06-04 — 17 pageviews2026-06-07 — 14 pageviews2026-06-10 — 3 pageviews2026-06-13 — 12 pageviews2026-06-16 — 14 pageviews2026-06-19 — 13 pageviews2026-06-22 — 8 pageviews2026-06-25 — 16 pageviews2026-06-28 — 20 pageviews2026-07-01 — 19 pageviews2026-07-04 — 11 pageviews2026-07-07 — 11 pageviews2026-07-10 — 15 pageviews2026-07-13 — 14 pageviews2026-07-16 — 10 pageviews2026-07-19 — 48 pageviews2026-07-22 — 15 pageviews2026-07-25 — 18 pageviews2026-07-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-31 — 12 pageviews2026-08-03 — 16 pageviews2026-08-06 — 11 pageviews2026-08-09 — 9 pageviews2026-08-12 — 12 pageviews2026-08-15 — 11 pageviews2026-08-18 — 9 pageviews2026-08-21 — 12 pageviews2026-08-24 — 15 pageviews2026-08-26 — 13 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Switch (Nintendo)1410%0
Switch (Nintendo)1240%0
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

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

Player tags

NoirAnimeCrimeOtomePuzzleRomanceColorfulAdventureDating SimStory Rich

Census log

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

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