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Giraffe and Annika cover art

Giraffe and Annika

atelier mimina · PLAYISM · 2020-02-17

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ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Aug 27, 2020 (Xbox One), Aug 28, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Aug 28, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 18, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Lovable, cat-eared Annika sets off on a grand quest on the Island of Spica! 3D adventure & rhythm action genres mesh in the lush, pastoral and beautiful manga-inspired world of Giraffe and Annika!

Giraffe and Annika is an Action, Adventure, Indie game released in 2020, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 356 reviews).

0
playing now
93%
positive of 356 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
4.41★
PlayStation Store rating (44 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Giraffe and Annika is an action-adventure and rhythm video game hybrid from independent developer by Atelier Mimina and published by Playism, NIS America, and Koei Tecmo Games. It released on February 17, 2020 for Windows, August 25, 2020 for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, and August 27, 2020 for Xbox One. The game revolves around Annika, a catgirl who finds herself stranded on the island of Spica with amnesia. She must recover her memories with the help of a boy named Giraffe by finding three special star fragments. The game uses a pacifist battle system where fights are done through rhythm based action.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 35% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (49 reviews).
  • · Top 24% of 27,668 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.1k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 356 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.59 at Steam (2022-07-30) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 11 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620202026Week of 2020-02-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$5.992020-02-182026-10-102020-02-18 — best price $17.992020-05-06 — best price $19.992020-06-25 — best price $15.992020-09-28 — best price $19.992020-11-07 — best price $13.992020-12-01 — best price $19.992021-02-11 — best price $13.992021-03-08 — best price $19.992021-05-15 — best price $11.992021-06-07 — best price $19.992021-08-09 — best price $9.992021-10-04 — best price $19.992021-11-06 — best price $9.992021-12-01 — best price $19.992022-01-27 — best price $9.992022-02-24 — best price $19.992022-06-24 — best price $9.992022-09-19 — best price $19.992022-12-03 — best price $6.592023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-03-09 — best price $6.592023-05-27 — best price $19.992023-08-01 — best price $6.592023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-02-01 — best price $6.592024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $6.592024-08-14 — best price $19.992025-01-22 — best price $6.592025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-05-21 — best price $6.592025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-09-15 — best price $6.592026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-05 — best price $7.992026-05-24 — best price $19.992026-08-29 — best price $29.992026-09-19 — best price $5.992026-10-10 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

802026-05-31 — 5 pageviews2026-06-04 — 0 pageviews2026-06-08 — 5 pageviews2026-06-12 — 5 pageviews2026-06-16 — 2 pageviews2026-06-20 — 2 pageviews2026-06-24 — 2 pageviews2026-06-28 — 4 pageviews2026-07-02 — 7 pageviews2026-07-06 — 5 pageviews2026-07-10 — 2 pageviews2026-07-14 — 5 pageviews2026-07-18 — 6 pageviews2026-07-22 — 0 pageviews2026-07-26 — 2 pageviews2026-07-30 — 1 pageviews2026-08-03 — 0 pageviews2026-08-07 — 0 pageviews2026-08-11 — 4 pageviews2026-08-15 — 2 pageviews2026-08-19 — 5 pageviews2026-08-23 — 5 pageviews2026-08-27 — 8 pageviews2026-08-31 — 5 pageviews2026-09-04 — 4 pageviews2026-09-08 — 3 pageviews2026-09-12 — 0 pageviews2026-09-16 — 4 pageviews2026-09-20 — 2 pageviews2026-09-24 — 2 pageviews2026-09-28 — 5 pageviews2026-10-02 — 1 pageviews2026-10-06 — 2 pageviews2026-10-09 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

33
achievements tracked
91.8%
earned "Sneaking in"
17.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2020-02-18, latest 2022-02-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)39210%33
PS4 (PlayStation)35352%33
PS4 (PlayStation)26712%33
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DCuteAnimeMusicActionRhythmCartoonFantasyCartoonyColorful

Census log

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

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