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Kanon cover art

Kanon

VISUAL ARTS/Key · VISUAL ARTS · 2024-06-19

Steam

AdventureCasualSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 20, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 20, 2023 (Nintendo Switch)

A tale of small miracles in a snow-covered town— Kanon, the very first game from visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring HD visuals and full voice support! (The protagonist is only voiced in certain scenes.)

97%
positive of 514 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

Yuichi Aizawa is a second-year high school student who visited the city where the story takes place seven years before Kanon's beginning. The story opens on Wednesday, January 6, 1999, when Yuichi arrives in the city and is very detached from it and its inhabitants. Before his return, it is decided that he is to stay with his first cousin, Nayuki Minase, and her mother, Akiko. After his long absence, Yuichi has forgotten almost everything except minor details of what happened seven years before and needs to be reminded of what he left behind. Nayuki initially tries repeatedly to jog his memo(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 83 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 28,690 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 10k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 514 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $10.49 at Steam (2026-08-31)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
787820242026Week of 2024-06-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$10.492024-06-202026-10-082024-06-20 — best price $26.992024-06-27 — best price $29.992024-12-19 — best price $22.492025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-03-03 — best price $20.992025-03-10 — best price $29.992025-03-13 — best price $20.992025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-06-27 — best price $17.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-09-29 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $29.992025-12-18 — best price $11.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-03-19 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-06-25 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $29.992026-07-20 — best price $11.992026-07-27 — best price $29.992026-08-31 — best price $10.492026-09-07 — best price $29.992026-10-01 — best price $10.492026-10-08 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
26.6%
earned "Alarm Clock"
20.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Input API SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)12458%14
Switch (Nintendo)140%0
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeDramaCasualRomanceAdventureEmotionalDating SimSimulation

Census log

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

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