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My Lovely Daughter

GameChanger Studio · Toge Productions · 2018-03-08

SteamGOG

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 23, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 08, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 08, 2018 (Linux), Mar 08, 2018 (Mac)

My Lovely Daughter is an alchemist simulator that explores the depth of a father’s grief and how far he will go to resurrect his daughter. Contains dark and disturbing subject matters, might not be suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

My Lovely Daughter is a $2.99 Adventure, Indie, Simulation game released in 2018, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (70% of 1310 reviews).

1
playing now
70%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 21:00 UTC (census sample)

My Lovely Daughter tells a story about a grieving father and his intense love of his late daughter. As an alchemist, players will assume the role of Faust and have to raise varieties of homunculus to help growing the soul to revive his daughter. The game emphasizes on players building relationship with their homunculus, just to sacrifice them for his daughter.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 30 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (362 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 33k–79k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,310 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.75-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-06-27) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 65 of 86 observed days · $0.76 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
25825820182026Week of 2018-03-01: 258 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 21:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$2.992018-03-092026-10-142018-03-09 — best price $13.492019-02-12 — best price $14.992019-11-26 — best price $7.492020-04-29 — best price $11.012020-06-13 — best price $13.492020-07-17 — best price $13.492020-08-15 — best price $14.992020-09-09 — best price $13.492020-11-13 — best price $13.492021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-01-30 — best price $14.992021-02-28 — best price $14.992021-03-22 — best price $13.492021-04-18 — best price $14.992021-05-18 — best price $14.992021-09-07 — best price $14.992022-01-27 — best price $5.992022-08-12 — best price $14.992022-10-17 — best price $13.172022-12-08 — best price $14.992023-01-15 — best price $11.012023-03-20 — best price $13.392023-06-26 — best price $14.992023-09-23 — best price $11.012023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-02-13 — best price $11.012024-03-22 — best price $13.492024-09-25 — best price $5.992024-11-27 — best price $3.742025-01-26 — best price $11.012025-04-19 — best price $13.492025-06-04 — best price $11.012025-09-11 — best price $11.012026-03-15 — best price $14.992026-06-04 — best price $3.752026-08-29 — best price $3.752026-09-13 — best price $3.752026-09-28 — best price $3.752026-10-13 — best price $3.752026-10-14 — best price $3.75
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
90.9%
earned "It's Alive"
24.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing4 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 4 DLC released, first 2018-06-14, latest 2024-06-23 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,3636%50
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteHorrorSurrealDark HumorManagementSimulationStory RichVisual NovelChoices Matter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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