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ニコニコさん | Niconico-san cover art

ニコニコさん | Niconico-san

TI-BA · 2025-04-24

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 24, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Niconico-san" is a first-person, fast-paced horror game set in a Japanese residential area. Players must escape from the smiling man of urban legend, "Niconico-san," and find their way out of a terrifying otherworld.

96%
positive of 69 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 69 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720252026Week of 2025-04-25: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-04-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-02: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-09: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-04: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-18: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-15: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-04: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese

Player tags

3DDogFMVActionDemonsHorrorMysteryAdventureRealisticSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.