The Game Census
Case 00: The Cannibal Boy cover art

Case 00: The Cannibal Boy

Sounding Stone / 老奉毊 · 2020-09-18

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Sep 18, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 18, 2020 (Mac)

Case 00: The Cannibal Boy is a half-hour visual novel partly based on a true story, written by a writer with a background in psychology. It is a psychological horror story with an urban legend theme.

79%
positive of 167 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.39
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 78% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 16,321 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.3k–7.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 167 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.39-20%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.36 at Steam (2025-09-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days · $0.03 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720202026Week of 2020-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$2.362020-09-182026-09-142020-09-18 — best price $2.482020-11-07 — best price $2.482020-12-22 — best price $2.482021-02-11 — best price $2.482021-04-19 — best price $2.392021-06-25 — best price $2.392021-09-13 — best price $2.392021-11-06 — best price $2.392021-11-24 — best price $2.392022-01-27 — best price $2.392022-02-28 — best price $2.392022-05-21 — best price $2.392022-08-04 — best price $2.392022-10-25 — best price $2.392022-12-03 — best price $2.392023-02-13 — best price $2.392023-03-27 — best price $2.392023-06-30 — best price $2.392023-09-18 — best price $2.392023-11-21 — best price $2.392023-12-21 — best price $2.392024-03-14 — best price $2.392024-05-13 — best price $2.392024-07-29 — best price $2.392024-10-28 — best price $2.392024-12-07 — best price $2.392025-02-03 — best price $2.392025-03-24 — best price $2.392025-06-09 — best price $2.392025-08-04 — best price $2.392025-09-29 — best price $2.362025-12-03 — best price $2.392026-02-09 — best price $2.392026-04-09 — best price $2.362026-06-25 — best price $2.392026-09-14 — best price $2.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

3
achievements tracked
84.3%
earned "Part 1: The Cannibal Boy"
76.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

CuteAnimeHorrorLGBTQ+MysteryRomanceRPGMakerAdventureDark HumorStory Rich

Census log

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

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