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Nie No Hakoniwa

Chatte Noire · Sekai Project · 2024-02-15

SteamGOG

Casual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Feb 17, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Let us celebrate, the birth of this nightmare." A story about an urban legend surrounding a certain "Box", this is a Japanese-style, supernatural visual novel about madness, love and hate.

75%
positive of 288 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

A long time ago, an outlander appeared before the village of a long-suffering minority. In his possession was a mysterious "box" which was used by the oppressed to rise up and overthrow their oppressors. Years later, that oppressed group formed seven noble houses and grew prosperous. However, House Shiki, which stood first among the Seven Noble Houses did not have a son to succeed the family. In order to have an heir, a young man from outside the village was adopted in to the family. Kurou, born and raised as a "product" and ignorant of the subtleties of being a "person," is introduced to Sh(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 38 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 58% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 16,430 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.8k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 288 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 28 of 44 observed days · $6.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620242026Week of 2024-02-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$8.992024-02-152026-09-162024-02-15 — best price $29.992024-05-06 — best price $23.992024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-09-18 — best price $29.992024-10-10 — best price $23.992024-11-04 — best price $29.992024-11-26 — best price $23.992024-12-12 — best price $23.992025-01-14 — best price $23.992025-01-24 — best price $23.992025-02-13 — best price $23.992025-03-04 — best price $23.992025-03-15 — best price $29.992025-04-14 — best price $29.992025-05-07 — best price $23.992025-06-02 — best price $29.992025-06-18 — best price $22.492025-07-21 — best price $20.992025-07-31 — best price $29.992025-09-11 — best price $20.992025-09-29 — best price $17.992025-10-19 — best price $29.992025-11-17 — best price $20.992025-12-18 — best price $17.992026-01-12 — best price $17.992026-01-19 — best price $29.992026-03-09 — best price $17.992026-03-19 — best price $14.992026-04-14 — best price $14.992026-05-14 — best price $14.992026-06-04 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $8.992026-07-24 — best price $14.992026-08-25 — best price $14.992026-09-16 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
58.2%
earned "The Beginning"
30.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-03-05 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)12861%19

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

Player tags

2DGoreAnimeCasualHorrorLinearMysteryViolentThrillerStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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