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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!

Buy a Croquette! is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, and RPG game released in 2024, free-to-play, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (99% of 8531 reviews).

204
playing now
99%
positive of 8.6k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

204 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Buy a Croquette! trailer thumbnail

2 Unexpected Endings and Story | Buy a Croquette! 买个可乐饼吧! [1] (English Translated)

≈395,108 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 204 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 4% of 28,739 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

22202026-09-14 23:00 — 9 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 108 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 93 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 12 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 99 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 197 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 8 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 89 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 198 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 16 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 73 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 140 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 34 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 65 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 185 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 60 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 31 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 160 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 56 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 17 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 222 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 166 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 6 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 204 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
14537May 2024Aug 2026May 2024 — avg 54 · peak 212Jun 2024 — avg 75 · peak 207Jul 2024 — avg 56 · peak 138Aug 2024 — avg 56 · peak 135Sep 2024 — avg 42 · peak 144Oct 2024 — avg 39 · peak 110Nov 2024 — avg 37 · peak 128Dec 2024 — avg 56 · peak 200Jan 2025 — avg 68 · peak 176Feb 2025 — avg 66 · peak 181Mar 2025 — avg 67 · peak 209Apr 2025 — avg 68 · peak 232May 2025 — avg 69 · peak 205Jun 2025 — avg 85 · peak 230Jul 2025 — avg 119 · peak 337Aug 2025 — avg 119 · peak 259Sep 2025 — avg 125 · peak 403Oct 2025 — avg 131 · peak 437Nov 2025 — avg 115 · peak 395Dec 2025 — avg 82 · peak 307Jan 2026 — avg 85 · peak 275Feb 2026 — avg 97 · peak 239Mar 2026 — avg 145 · peak 684Apr 2026 — avg 97 · peak 314May 2026 — avg 81 · peak 228Jun 2026 — avg 93 · peak 260Jul 2026 — avg 124 · peak 308Aug 2026 — avg 126 · peak 304
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Twitch viewers

002026-10-01 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 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

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-04-25 (Steam store data)

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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

JRPGFunnyCasualPuzzleSci-fiMysteryRPGMakerStrategyExplorationStrategy RPG

Census log

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

Recent updates

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