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Katawa Shoujo

Four Leaf Studios · 2024-08-15

Steam

CasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Aug 15, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 15, 2024 (Linux), Aug 15, 2024 (Mac)

Katawa Shoujo is a romantic visual novel set in the fictional Japanese Yamaku High School for disabled children. Hisao's congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right.

Katawa Shoujo is a Casual, Indie, and Free To Play game released in 2024, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (98% of 6176 reviews).

51
playing now
98%
positive of 6.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

51 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Katawa Shoujo is a bishōjo-style visual novel by Four Leaf Studios that tells the story of a young man and five young women living with varying disabilities. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV-style text box running on the Ren'Py visual novel engine. The game is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND.

Trailer

Katawa Shoujo trailer thumbnail

The Average Katawa Shoujo Experience

≈151,407 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 51 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,515 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~189/week).
  • · Review velocity up 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 29,349 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.4k1.4k20242026Week of 2024-08-01: 1,386 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 369 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 623 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 305 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 178 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

112402026-09-15 15:00 — 102 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 70 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 57 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 101 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 83 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 59 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 56 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 78 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 61 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 91 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 101 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 69 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 61 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 90 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 57 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 40 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 86 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 73 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 52 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 107 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 72 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 48 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 79 players2026-10-15 06:00 — 51 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
23560Aug 2024Aug 2026Aug 2024 — avg 235 · peak 428Sep 2024 — avg 119 · peak 245Oct 2024 — avg 84 · peak 162Nov 2024 — avg 85 · peak 130Dec 2024 — avg 82 · peak 129Jan 2025 — avg 100 · peak 162Feb 2025 — avg 90 · peak 164Mar 2025 — avg 92 · peak 147Apr 2025 — avg 83 · peak 139May 2025 — avg 87 · peak 137Jun 2025 — avg 91 · peak 137Jul 2025 — avg 75 · peak 136Aug 2025 — avg 72 · peak 115Sep 2025 — avg 60 · peak 110Oct 2025 — avg 61 · peak 101Nov 2025 — avg 68 · peak 118Dec 2025 — avg 68 · peak 124Jan 2026 — avg 91 · peak 167Feb 2026 — avg 97 · peak 158Mar 2026 — avg 82 · peak 160Apr 2026 — avg 83 · peak 141May 2026 — avg 89 · peak 144Jun 2026 — avg 92 · peak 169Jul 2026 — avg 101 · peak 159Aug 2026 — avg 100 · peak 159
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

3971702026-05-29 — 353 pageviews2026-06-02 — 283 pageviews2026-06-06 — 233 pageviews2026-06-10 — 210 pageviews2026-06-14 — 300 pageviews2026-06-18 — 238 pageviews2026-06-22 — 210 pageviews2026-06-26 — 229 pageviews2026-06-30 — 227 pageviews2026-07-04 — 199 pageviews2026-07-08 — 243 pageviews2026-07-12 — 244 pageviews2026-07-16 — 203 pageviews2026-07-20 — 213 pageviews2026-07-24 — 209 pageviews2026-07-28 — 256 pageviews2026-08-01 — 233 pageviews2026-08-05 — 210 pageviews2026-08-09 — 221 pageviews2026-08-13 — 201 pageviews2026-08-17 — 206 pageviews2026-08-21 — 192 pageviews2026-08-25 — 203 pageviews2026-08-29 — 207 pageviews2026-09-02 — 199 pageviews2026-09-06 — 226 pageviews2026-09-10 — 238 pageviews2026-09-14 — 198 pageviews2026-09-18 — 224 pageviews2026-09-22 — 208 pageviews2026-09-26 — 239 pageviews2026-09-30 — 195 pageviews2026-10-04 — 182 pageviews2026-10-08 — 170 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
70%
earned "Bundle of Hisao"
9.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Input API SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Japanese, Spanish - Latin America, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-04-15 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,54515%21

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeCasualRomanceRelaxingEmotionalDating SimStory RichText-Based

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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