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Nurse Love Syndrome

KOGADO STUDIO · KOMODO · 2019-04-18

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Dec 26, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 19, 2019 (PlayStation Vita), Apr 18, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 20, 2023 (PlayStation 4)

Meet cheerful Kaori Sawai, fresh out of nursing school, as she joins Yurigahama Hospital. Surviving a near death experience as a child left her with a desire to become a nurse and "healing hands" that let her relieve pain in patients just by touching them.

Nurse Love Syndrome is an Adventure game released in 2019, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 323 reviews).

2
playing now
93%
positive of 323 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Nurse Love Syndrome is a yuri visual novel game developed by Kogado Studio's Shimarisu-san Team with the script writer being Sakusa Sakura. The series has an official abbreviated name of "ShiroKoi" using the first two kanji of the first two words of the whole title. The game is a visual novel about a girl named Kaori Sawai who was saved by hospital staff after an accident during her youth and decided to repay them by becoming a nurse at the age of 21. The story starts with Kaori starting her first day as a nurse at the hospital she would start working at and meet other people-some connected to her past.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 38 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.1k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 323 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2025-04-24) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 23 of 42 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120192026Week of 2019-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 16:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 07:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 14:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$7.992019-04-192026-08-242019-04-19 — best price $35.992019-08-29 — best price $31.992019-12-12 — best price $23.992020-01-16 — best price $27.992020-04-30 — best price $23.992020-08-24 — best price $39.992020-11-25 — best price $15.992021-04-29 — best price $15.992021-07-23 — best price $35.892021-10-28 — best price $15.992021-12-01 — best price $29.392022-01-06 — best price $35.892022-01-27 — best price $15.992022-04-12 — best price $39.992022-05-16 — best price $13.192022-07-17 — best price $29.392022-09-18 — best price $29.392022-11-16 — best price $35.892022-12-22 — best price $15.992023-02-14 — best price $29.392023-04-18 — best price $35.892023-06-23 — best price $15.992023-08-25 — best price $15.992023-11-05 — best price $15.992023-12-11 — best price $15.992024-03-21 — best price $39.992024-07-31 — best price $39.992024-12-12 — best price $15.992025-01-30 — best price $39.992025-03-10 — best price $39.992025-05-19 — best price $13.992025-07-23 — best price $35.892025-09-18 — best price $15.992025-11-06 — best price $39.992026-01-07 — best price $35.892026-03-27 — best price $35.892026-05-02 — best price $29.392026-06-19 — best price $12.792026-08-24 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2042026-05-31 — 10 pageviews2026-06-04 — 12 pageviews2026-06-08 — 6 pageviews2026-06-12 — 10 pageviews2026-06-16 — 5 pageviews2026-06-20 — 13 pageviews2026-06-24 — 15 pageviews2026-06-28 — 10 pageviews2026-07-02 — 6 pageviews2026-07-06 — 10 pageviews2026-07-10 — 14 pageviews2026-07-14 — 14 pageviews2026-07-18 — 9 pageviews2026-07-22 — 19 pageviews2026-07-26 — 16 pageviews2026-07-30 — 11 pageviews2026-08-03 — 12 pageviews2026-08-07 — 11 pageviews2026-08-11 — 13 pageviews2026-08-15 — 12 pageviews2026-08-19 — 18 pageviews2026-08-23 — 11 pageviews2026-08-27 — 4 pageviews2026-08-31 — 16 pageviews2026-09-04 — 9 pageviews2026-09-08 — 10 pageviews2026-09-12 — 11 pageviews2026-09-16 — 7 pageviews2026-09-20 — 11 pageviews2026-09-24 — 6 pageviews2026-09-28 — 11 pageviews2026-10-02 — 9 pageviews2026-10-06 — 7 pageviews2026-10-09 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
41.8%
earned "Common Route Complete"
28%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-04-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS Vita (PlayStation)59485%34
Steam (Steam)14876%13
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeLGBTQ+NudityRomanceAdventureStory RichSingleplayerVisual Novel

Census log

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

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