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Buy a Croquette!

越青 · Eternal Dream · 2024-04-27

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 27, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

March 2012, Nagano. The brave and clever high school girl, Chio Aozora, is facing a major crisis: she doesn’t have enough money to buy a croquette! Navigate through the streets and alleys of Nagano, interact with a variety of characters, solve complex puzzles, collect 380 yen, and buy a croquette!

122
playing now
99%
positive of 8.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

122 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 122 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,029 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~254/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
57957920242026Week of 2024-04-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 569 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 579 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 400 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 408 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 295 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 222 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 364 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 347 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 453 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 382 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 268 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 261 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 247 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 244 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 310 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 295 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 293 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

25562026-08-11 19:00 — 32 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 212 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 106 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 37 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 199 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 97 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 51 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 207 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 47 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 64 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 177 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 46 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 81 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 199 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 27 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 118 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 224 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 18 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 142 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 203 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 160 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 198 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 19 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 255 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 137 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 18 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 216 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 122 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-27 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
81.4%
earned "空响"
36.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

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

1 supported languages: Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)26540%14

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

Player tags

JRPGFunnyCasualPuzzleSci-fiMysteryRPGMakerStrategyExplorationStrategy RPG

Census log

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

Recent updates

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