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GINKA

Frontwing · Frontwing USA · 2023-10-25

Steam

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Oct 26, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 19, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

"Return to that summer with you..." Ryusei returns to the small island of his younger years, where time flows by gently, to spend a fairy-tale summer vacation with his childhood friend who was spirited away.

GINKA is an Adventure, Casual game released in 2023, priced at $16.09, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 2833 reviews).

11
playing now
91%
positive of 2.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$16.09
steam price (US)

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

Five years ago, Aoba Ryusei's childhood friend, Shinomiya Ginka, disappeared without a trace on the night of the summer festival. The superstitious islanders believed this to be an act of God, saying that she was "spirited away." Now in high school, Ryusei decides to visit the island over summer break. He needs to know: Did Ginka ever come back? Could she be living a normal high school life? Sadly, his faint hopes are crushed when he learns that Ginka was never seen again after that night. He dejectedly prepares to depart, but then he meets a young girl who looks exactly like his missing chi(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 11 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 124 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,247 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 57k–127k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,833 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $13.79 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $22.99 · on sale 6 of 11 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.1k1.1k20232026Week of 2023-10-01: 1,141 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 487 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-09-15 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 6 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 6 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 7 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 9 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 5 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 9 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 8 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 11 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
5464Oct 2023Aug 2026Oct 2023 — avg 546 · peak 2,124Nov 2023 — avg 73 · peak 402Dec 2023 — avg 28 · peak 86Jan 2024 — avg 27 · peak 85Feb 2024 — avg 20 · peak 57Mar 2024 — avg 15 · peak 37Apr 2024 — avg 11 · peak 33May 2024 — avg 11 · peak 35Jun 2024 — avg 14 · peak 63Jul 2024 — avg 15 · peak 49Aug 2024 — avg 17 · peak 46Sep 2024 — avg 11 · peak 32Oct 2024 — avg 11 · peak 32Nov 2024 — avg 7 · peak 19Dec 2024 — avg 8 · peak 21Jan 2025 — avg 8 · peak 23Feb 2025 — avg 6 · peak 18Mar 2025 — avg 11 · peak 36Apr 2025 — avg 7 · peak 18May 2025 — avg 7 · peak 20Jun 2025 — avg 6 · peak 17Jul 2025 — avg 8 · peak 20Aug 2025 — avg 7 · peak 18Sep 2025 — avg 5 · peak 18Oct 2025 — avg 5 · peak 16Nov 2025 — avg 6 · peak 15Dec 2025 — avg 6 · peak 20Jan 2026 — avg 7 · peak 17Feb 2026 — avg 5 · peak 12Mar 2026 — avg 5 · peak 18Apr 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13May 2026 — avg 6 · peak 18Jun 2026 — avg 5 · peak 17Jul 2026 — avg 6 · peak 15Aug 2026 — avg 8 · peak 21
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$22.99$13.792023-10-262026-08-152023-10-26 — best price $22.992024-01-04 — best price $22.992024-02-12 — best price $22.992024-03-21 — best price $22.992024-05-11 — best price $22.992024-07-11 — best price $22.992024-08-25 — best price $22.992024-10-11 — best price $22.992024-12-04 — best price $22.992025-01-02 — best price $22.992025-03-10 — best price $22.992025-03-20 — best price $22.992025-05-12 — best price $22.992025-07-10 — best price $22.992025-08-29 — best price $22.992025-10-06 — best price $22.992025-12-01 — best price $22.992026-01-19 — best price $22.992026-03-26 — best price $22.992026-05-12 — best price $22.992026-07-09 — best price $22.992026-08-15 — best price $16.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsCustom Volume Controls#category_playable_at_your_own_pacePlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeStereo SoundSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-07-22 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

CuteAnimeDramaCasualLinearRomanceSurrealAdventureEmotionalMythology

Census log

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

Recent updates

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