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Mushihimesama cover art

Mushihimesama

CAVE Interactive CO.,LTD. · KOMODO · 2015-11-12

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Nov 19, 2004 (Arcade), Dec 15, 2011 (iOS), Jul 21, 2005 (PlayStation 2)

Battle huge "Koju" bugs in CAVE's beautiful fantasy shooter, Mushihimesama. Experience the thrill of bullet hell from the masters of the genre as you evade visually stunning shot patterns with thousands of bullets.

3
playing now
97%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
87/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Mushihimesama is a manic shooter developed by Cave, originally distributed by AMI in 2004 and later redistributed to arcades in 2011 as the significantly changed "version 1.5". It was ported to the PlayStation 2 in 2005 and iOS in 2011. An Xbox 360 port was released in May 2012. A version for Microsoft Windows was also published by Degica in 2015. In 2021, the game was ported to the Nintendo Switch.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 39k–94k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,564 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at WinGameStore (2016-08-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 19 of 26 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

912026-08-11 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 5 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 6 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 8 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$23.06$5.592015-11-062026-07-112015-11-06 — best price $14.992015-12-23 — best price $14.992016-02-29 — best price $19.992016-05-06 — best price $23.062016-08-05 — best price $17.992016-10-03 — best price $19.992017-03-21 — best price $19.992017-09-07 — best price $8.992018-02-08 — best price $7.992018-08-20 — best price $19.992019-02-12 — best price $19.992019-09-12 — best price $19.992020-01-22 — best price $7.992020-05-21 — best price $19.992020-09-28 — best price $19.992021-04-26 — best price $6.992021-11-24 — best price $6.992022-02-03 — best price $19.992022-04-27 — best price $6.992022-06-23 — best price $6.992022-09-16 — best price $6.992022-11-16 — best price $17.882022-12-22 — best price $6.992023-02-20 — best price $19.992023-05-05 — best price $6.992023-07-18 — best price $17.882023-10-23 — best price $19.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $6.992024-07-11 — best price $17.882024-12-05 — best price $17.882025-03-13 — best price $6.992025-06-02 — best price $17.882025-08-14 — best price $19.992025-12-11 — best price $5.592026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-07-11 — best price $15.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

83392026-05-30 — 52 pageviews2026-06-02 — 66 pageviews2026-06-05 — 51 pageviews2026-06-08 — 56 pageviews2026-06-11 — 69 pageviews2026-06-14 — 59 pageviews2026-06-17 — 66 pageviews2026-06-20 — 54 pageviews2026-06-23 — 47 pageviews2026-06-26 — 64 pageviews2026-06-29 — 77 pageviews2026-07-02 — 48 pageviews2026-07-05 — 75 pageviews2026-07-08 — 68 pageviews2026-07-11 — 52 pageviews2026-07-14 — 46 pageviews2026-07-17 — 73 pageviews2026-07-20 — 50 pageviews2026-07-23 — 68 pageviews2026-07-26 — 63 pageviews2026-07-29 — 45 pageviews2026-08-01 — 54 pageviews2026-08-04 — 60 pageviews2026-08-07 — 70 pageviews2026-08-10 — 70 pageviews2026-08-13 — 67 pageviews2026-08-16 — 68 pageviews2026-08-19 — 59 pageviews2026-08-22 — 56 pageviews2026-08-25 — 60 pageviews2026-08-27 — 51 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
91.3%
earned "To Shinju Forest"
30.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsGamepad RecommendedSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play on TV4 DLC

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,9121%50
Switch (Nintendo)940%0

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

Player tags

2DAnimeActionArcadeClassicShooterDifficultBullet HellLocal Co-OpScore Attack

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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