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Date Warp cover art

Date Warp

Hanako Games · 2014-09-02

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 22, 2010 (Mac), May 22, 2010 (Linux), May 22, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Five days ago, Janet left her dorm to go on a date - and never came back. Was she kidnapped? Murdered? The truth may be even stranger. Solve puzzles to connect together pieces of the story in a science-fiction adventure with eleven possible endings!

89%
positive of 179 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.49
steam price (US)
Date Warp is a science fiction visual novel video game developed by Spiky Caterpillar and Hanako Games, and published by Hanako Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux in 2010. The game uses anime-style graphics and is written in English and tells a story of a young Indian-American college female student who goes on a date and disappears.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 20,113 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.5k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 179 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.49-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2018-11-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days · $1.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820142026Week of 2014-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-09-212015-01-01 — best price $6.992015-06-11 — best price $4.992015-11-25 — best price $4.992016-02-05 — best price $7.792016-04-28 — best price $4.992016-09-12 — best price $2.492016-12-22 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $5.492017-11-22 — best price $4.492018-02-15 — best price $3.992018-06-21 — best price $3.992018-11-21 — best price $0.992019-02-18 — best price $9.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-03-06 — best price $9.992020-09-07 — best price $9.992020-12-14 — best price $9.992021-03-08 — best price $9.992021-07-26 — best price $9.992021-11-22 — best price $9.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-05-23 — best price $9.992022-11-07 — best price $2.992023-01-30 — best price $2.492023-05-22 — best price $2.492023-10-16 — best price $2.992024-02-05 — best price $3.492024-05-06 — best price $2.492024-09-09 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $1.992025-04-07 — best price $2.492025-08-04 — best price $2.992025-11-10 — best price $2.492026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-09-21 — best price $2.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1402026-06-26 — 4 pageviews2026-06-29 — 0 pageviews2026-07-02 — 1 pageviews2026-07-05 — 5 pageviews2026-07-09 — 0 pageviews2026-07-12 — 2 pageviews2026-07-15 — 1 pageviews2026-07-18 — 3 pageviews2026-07-21 — 1 pageviews2026-07-24 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 3 pageviews2026-07-30 — 2 pageviews2026-08-02 — 4 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-08 — 7 pageviews2026-08-11 — 2 pageviews2026-08-14 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 1 pageviews2026-08-20 — 0 pageviews2026-08-23 — 0 pageviews2026-08-26 — 0 pageviews2026-08-29 — 1 pageviews2026-09-01 — 6 pageviews2026-09-04 — 1 pageviews2026-09-07 — 2 pageviews2026-09-10 — 5 pageviews2026-09-13 — 2 pageviews2026-09-16 — 4 pageviews2026-09-19 — 4 pageviews2026-09-22 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
31.1%
earned "Ascension"
28.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

AnimeIndieOtomeLGBTQ+Sci-fiMysteryRomanceDating SimStory RichTime Travel

Census log

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

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