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Katawa Shoujo

Four Leaf Studios · 2024-08-15

Steam

CasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

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.

87
playing now
98%
positive of 6.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

87 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 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.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 87 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 6% of 9,562 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

138692026-08-11 20:00 — 124 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 85 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 76 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 137 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 82 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 101 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 128 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 74 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 96 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 116 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 83 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 97 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 105 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 75 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 80 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 127 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 96 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 119 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 128 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 69 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 91 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 128 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 71 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 84 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 117 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 69 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 138 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 97 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 87 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Attention

4171792026-05-29 — 353 pageviews2026-06-01 — 318 pageviews2026-06-04 — 238 pageviews2026-06-07 — 255 pageviews2026-06-10 — 210 pageviews2026-06-13 — 261 pageviews2026-06-16 — 244 pageviews2026-06-19 — 210 pageviews2026-06-22 — 210 pageviews2026-06-25 — 252 pageviews2026-06-28 — 215 pageviews2026-07-01 — 211 pageviews2026-07-04 — 199 pageviews2026-07-07 — 232 pageviews2026-07-10 — 202 pageviews2026-07-13 — 246 pageviews2026-07-16 — 203 pageviews2026-07-19 — 240 pageviews2026-07-22 — 230 pageviews2026-07-25 — 195 pageviews2026-07-28 — 256 pageviews2026-07-31 — 205 pageviews2026-08-03 — 252 pageviews2026-08-06 — 221 pageviews2026-08-09 — 221 pageviews2026-08-12 — 229 pageviews2026-08-15 — 200 pageviews2026-08-18 — 179 pageviews2026-08-21 — 192 pageviews2026-08-24 — 235 pageviews2026-08-26 — 208 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

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.

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeCasualRomanceRelaxingEmotionalDating SimStory RichText-Based

Census log

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

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