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Freshman Year cover art

Freshman Year

Nina Freeman · N/A · 2015-04-20

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 20, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 20, 2015 (Mac)

Freshman Year is a vignette game about an ordinary night in the life a college freshman named Nina. Nina's best friend Jenna invites her to meet up at a local bar with some classmates. Jenna is sort of flaky though, so Nina has to navigate the party by herself.

63%
positive of 215 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (54 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 44,816 Indie games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
292920152025Week of 2015-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieShortFree to PlaySingleplayerVisual NovelFemale Protagonist

Census log

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