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Hookah Haze

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

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

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...

Hookah Haze is an $8.99 Adventure game released in 2024, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and Very Positive (93% of 1422 reviews) sentiment.

3
playing now
93%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 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

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 197 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~25/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 28k–64k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,422 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
45145120242026Week of 2024-07-01: 451 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-09-15 02:00 — 8 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 7 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 6 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 4 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 5 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 6 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 11 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 7 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 7 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 10 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 6 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
894Jul 2024Aug 2026Jul 2024 — avg 89 · peak 393Aug 2024 — avg 27 · peak 83Sep 2024 — avg 17 · peak 61Oct 2024 — avg 10 · peak 27Nov 2024 — avg 9 · peak 41Dec 2024 — avg 18 · peak 52Jan 2025 — avg 13 · peak 41Feb 2025 — avg 6 · peak 22Mar 2025 — avg 11 · peak 31Apr 2025 — avg 8 · peak 23May 2025 — avg 5 · peak 17Jun 2025 — avg 4 · peak 24Jul 2025 — avg 9 · peak 30Aug 2025 — avg 5 · peak 16Sep 2025 — avg 4 · peak 19Oct 2025 — avg 9 · peak 27Nov 2025 — avg 6 · peak 22Dec 2025 — avg 8 · peak 21Jan 2026 — avg 6 · peak 21Feb 2026 — avg 6 · peak 22Mar 2026 — avg 8 · peak 38Apr 2026 — avg 10 · peak 33May 2026 — avg 6 · peak 18Jun 2026 — avg 5 · peak 16Jul 2026 — avg 9 · peak 26Aug 2026 — avg 6 · peak 19
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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 pageviews2026-06-02 — 11 pageviews2026-06-06 — 16 pageviews2026-06-10 — 15 pageviews2026-06-14 — 11 pageviews2026-06-18 — 21 pageviews2026-06-22 — 12 pageviews2026-06-26 — 14 pageviews2026-06-30 — 15 pageviews2026-07-04 — 11 pageviews2026-07-08 — 15 pageviews2026-07-12 — 20 pageviews2026-07-16 — 23 pageviews2026-07-20 — 11 pageviews2026-07-24 — 13 pageviews2026-07-28 — 6 pageviews2026-08-01 — 19 pageviews2026-08-05 — 18 pageviews2026-08-09 — 13 pageviews2026-08-13 — 15 pageviews2026-08-17 — 7 pageviews2026-08-21 — 9 pageviews2026-08-25 — 15 pageviews2026-08-29 — 13 pageviews2026-09-02 — 12 pageviews2026-09-06 — 14 pageviews2026-09-10 — 6 pageviews2026-09-14 — 13 pageviews2026-09-18 — 10 pageviews2026-09-22 — 24 pageviews2026-09-26 — 16 pageviews2026-09-30 — 11 pageviews2026-10-04 — 20 pageviews2026-10-07 — 9 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

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-07-10, latest 2024-12-19 (Steam store data)

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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