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MONARK

FURYU Corporation · NIS America, Inc. · 2022-02-22

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RPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Oct 13, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Oct 13, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Feb 22, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 25, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Could you face yourself and the threats around you to save the ones you love? Shin Mikado Academy is engulfed in a madness-inducing Mist, and only you can save everyone inside. Develop your Ego to break the pacts set by the Pactbearers and remove the corrupting Mist.

72%
positive of 248 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$59.99
steam price (US)
Monark is a 2021 Japanese role-playing game developed by Lancarse for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. It was localized and ported to Microsoft Windows by NIS America in February 2022. The game received mixed reviews from critics.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 8,390 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.0k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 248 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $17.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 14 of 28 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
373720222026Week of 2022-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$17.992022-02-222026-07-092022-02-22 — best price $59.992022-05-08 — best price $59.992022-07-07 — best price $59.992022-07-30 — best price $59.992022-08-26 — best price $59.992022-10-31 — best price $59.992022-11-22 — best price $44.992022-12-13 — best price $44.992023-01-06 — best price $59.992023-03-16 — best price $44.992023-04-25 — best price $44.992023-05-12 — best price $59.992023-07-13 — best price $59.992023-08-18 — best price $44.992023-10-02 — best price $38.992023-11-16 — best price $59.992023-12-11 — best price $38.992024-01-06 — best price $59.992024-03-04 — best price $38.992024-04-29 — best price $38.992024-06-25 — best price $59.992024-07-12 — best price $59.992024-08-19 — best price $38.992024-09-23 — best price $59.992024-11-22 — best price $29.992024-12-04 — best price $59.992025-01-02 — best price $59.992025-03-03 — best price $29.992025-03-31 — best price $59.992025-05-09 — best price $30.002025-06-02 — best price $59.992025-07-25 — best price $30.002025-08-14 — best price $29.992025-10-06 — best price $59.992025-11-18 — best price $59.992025-12-02 — best price $59.992025-12-11 — best price $29.992026-01-06 — best price $59.992026-07-09 — best price $59.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

47132026-06-16 — 23 pageviews2026-06-19 — 29 pageviews2026-06-22 — 33 pageviews2026-06-25 — 29 pageviews2026-06-28 — 43 pageviews2026-07-01 — 45 pageviews2026-07-04 — 33 pageviews2026-07-07 — 41 pageviews2026-07-10 — 17 pageviews2026-07-13 — 19 pageviews2026-07-16 — 19 pageviews2026-07-19 — 27 pageviews2026-07-22 — 26 pageviews2026-07-25 — 23 pageviews2026-07-28 — 28 pageviews2026-07-31 — 25 pageviews2026-08-03 — 21 pageviews2026-08-06 — 35 pageviews2026-08-09 — 25 pageviews2026-08-12 — 18 pageviews2026-08-15 — 16 pageviews2026-08-18 — 21 pageviews2026-08-21 — 20 pageviews2026-08-24 — 13 pageviews2026-08-27 — 14 pageviews2026-08-30 — 22 pageviews2026-09-02 — 21 pageviews2026-09-05 — 18 pageviews2026-09-08 — 22 pageviews2026-09-11 — 21 pageviews2026-09-13 — 31 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
70.1%
earned "Psych Sampler"
25.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing5 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 5 DLC released, first 2022-02-22, latest 2024-12-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)68822%47
Steam (Steam)23810%47
PS4 (PlayStation)16627%47
PS4 (PlayStation)9333%47
Switch (Nintendo)290%0

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

Player tags

3DRPGDarkJRPGAnimeDark FantasySingleplayerPsychologicalChoices MatterGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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