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Hookah Haze cover art

Hookah Haze

ACQUIRE Corp. · Aniplex Inc. · 2024-07-10

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 11, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 11, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It's the year 2xxx. The inexperienced Toru Sumiki lands a job managing Hookah Haze, a new hookah lounge on the outskirts of Akihabara, where they meet three eccentric girls. The story unfolds as the girls gradually open up to them, connecting through their fondness for hookah...

8
playing now
93%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Hookah Haze is a visual novel developed by Acquire and published by Aniplex. The game was released on July 11, 2024, for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch. The player takes the role of a terminally ill protagonist, whose final wish is to manage a hookah lounge. Through this new job, they meet various patrons and bond with them through hookah. The game has been compared to VA-11 Hall-A and Coffee Talk by critics.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 28k–63k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,406 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$8.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1522026-08-11 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 15 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 11 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 10 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 12 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$17.99$8.992024-07-102026-08-232024-07-10 — best price $16.192024-07-24 — best price $17.992024-08-26 — best price $16.192024-09-09 — best price $17.992024-11-27 — best price $14.392024-12-18 — best price $17.992024-12-19 — best price $14.392025-01-02 — best price $17.992025-01-19 — best price $14.392025-01-30 — best price $17.992025-03-03 — best price $13.492025-03-10 — best price $17.992025-03-13 — best price $13.492025-03-20 — best price $17.992025-04-10 — best price $13.492025-04-24 — best price $17.992025-06-26 — best price $12.592025-07-24 — best price $17.992025-09-29 — best price $10.792025-10-19 — best price $17.992025-11-28 — best price $10.792025-12-12 — best price $17.992025-12-18 — best price $10.792026-01-05 — best price $17.992026-02-14 — best price $10.792026-02-28 — best price $17.992026-03-19 — best price $8.992026-03-26 — best price $17.992026-04-11 — best price $8.992026-04-25 — best price $17.992026-06-25 — best price $8.992026-07-23 — best price $17.992026-08-23 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4262026-05-29 — 17 pageviews2026-06-01 — 19 pageviews2026-06-04 — 9 pageviews2026-06-07 — 21 pageviews2026-06-10 — 15 pageviews2026-06-13 — 20 pageviews2026-06-16 — 19 pageviews2026-06-19 — 12 pageviews2026-06-22 — 12 pageviews2026-06-25 — 21 pageviews2026-06-28 — 16 pageviews2026-07-01 — 20 pageviews2026-07-04 — 11 pageviews2026-07-07 — 24 pageviews2026-07-10 — 27 pageviews2026-07-13 — 14 pageviews2026-07-16 — 23 pageviews2026-07-19 — 13 pageviews2026-07-22 — 21 pageviews2026-07-25 — 11 pageviews2026-07-28 — 6 pageviews2026-07-31 — 18 pageviews2026-08-03 — 16 pageviews2026-08-06 — 16 pageviews2026-08-09 — 13 pageviews2026-08-12 — 7 pageviews2026-08-15 — 8 pageviews2026-08-18 — 13 pageviews2026-08-21 — 9 pageviews2026-08-24 — 10 pageviews2026-08-26 — 10 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
93%
earned "Grand Opening!"
40.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing2 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)44427%26
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeDramaColorfulLife SimRelaxingAdventureDating SimText-Based

Census log

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

Recent updates

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