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Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi cover art

Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi

Veratrum · 2023-09-14

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Sep 14, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 14, 2023 (Linux)

Four students find themselves trapped in the restroom of an abandoned school; the door is locked. Without a way of escaping, they can only cling to their remaining shreds of hope or come face to face with their inevitable ruin.

Go For A Punch! Saki Sanobashi is a 2023 Action, Adventure, Casual and Indie game priced at $5.99, with a Mostly Positive sentiment (79% of 256 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

0
playing now
79%
positive of 256 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$5.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Years ago, a dark legend spread through the deepest corners of the Internet, specifically on the /x/ board of 4chan. There, an anonymous user first spoke about an old and unknown anime called "Go for a Punch." Despite the efforts of those interested in recovering this anime since 2011, the original video never saw the light of day. The plot of the video was as follows: "A group of school teenagers finds themselves locked inside a closed room, a public restroom with no doors or windows to escape from. As they debate the possibility of never being able to leave that restroom, they progressively(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 25 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 5.1k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 256 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.69 at Steam (2024-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 5 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620232026Week of 2023-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.692023-09-142026-07-092023-09-14 — best price $5.992023-09-21 — best price $9.992023-09-22 — best price $7.752023-10-23 — best price $3.872023-10-30 — best price $7.752023-11-02 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $1.242023-11-28 — best price $4.992023-12-22 — best price $2.492024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-03-16 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-07-07 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-08-09 — best price $0.992024-10-28 — best price $0.692024-11-04 — best price $0.992024-11-18 — best price $1.992024-12-19 — best price $1.392025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-03-03 — best price $1.392025-03-10 — best price $1.992025-04-28 — best price $3.992025-07-10 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $2.792025-10-06 — best price $3.992025-10-27 — best price $1.992025-11-03 — best price $3.992025-12-18 — best price $2.792026-01-05 — best price $3.992026-02-01 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
33.4%
earned "Write your final words"
23%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-01-13 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2548%13

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

Player tags

2DHorrorClickerLife SimComic BookDark HumorDark ComedyConversationFirst-PersonThird Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.