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Matsuro Palette cover art

Matsuro Palette

SleepingMuseum · KEMCO · 2020-10-14

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 15, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Survive seven days with a cursed painting. Rely on notes from past victims and manage to successfully paint her portrait. But be careful not to upset her, or you'll quickly find yourself dead! An assortment of terminal tableaus awaits you. Will you be the one to finally finish her?

Matsuro Palette is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation game released in 2020, estimated to have 20,000 .. 50,000 owners, priced at $9.99, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (99% of 535 reviews).

0
playing now
99%
positive of 535 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 128 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Review velocity up 78% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 11k–24k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 535 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.59 at Steam (2021-02-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 24 of 41 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12812820202026Week of 2020-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
111Dec 2020Aug 2026Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 2Jan 2021 — avg 1 · peak 2Feb 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Apr 2021 — avg 1 · peak 2May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Jun 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2021 — avg 1 · peak 2Aug 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2023 — avg 1 · peak 3May 2023 — avg 1 · peak 6Jun 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2026 — avg 11 · peak 76
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$1.592020-10-152026-08-252020-10-15 — best price $2.792021-02-15 — best price $3.992021-10-28 — best price $1.592021-12-01 — best price $3.992022-03-24 — best price $1.592022-07-07 — best price $3.992022-11-22 — best price $2.392023-01-05 — best price $3.992024-11-15 — best price $8.992024-12-19 — best price $6.992025-02-07 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-04-17 — best price $9.992025-04-30 — best price $9.992025-05-30 — best price $5.992025-06-26 — best price $6.492025-07-31 — best price $9.992025-08-15 — best price $5.992025-09-25 — best price $5.992025-10-07 — best price $5.992025-10-20 — best price $5.992025-11-14 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-01-31 — best price $9.992026-02-20 — best price $5.992026-03-09 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-15 — best price $4.992026-05-06 — best price $4.992026-05-25 — best price $4.992026-06-08 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-04 — best price $3.392026-08-23 — best price $9.992026-08-25 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

49
achievements tracked
72.8%
earned "Undetermined"
40.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Russian, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-11-15 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)12379%19
Steam (Steam)7751%49
PS4 (PlayStation)6092%19
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

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

Player tags

CuteDramaIndieCasualHorrorMysteryAdventureEmotionalStory RichExploration

Census log

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

Recent updates

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