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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue cover art

Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

Leef 6010 · 2021-10-15

Steam

AdventureIndieRPGFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 15, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 16, 2020 (Linux), Mar 16, 2020 (Mac)

Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

99%
positive of 5.9k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
70/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 322 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~40/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,210 reviews).
  • · Top 5% of 27,785 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.2k1.2k20212026Week of 2021-10-01: 1,204 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 585 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

10
achievements tracked
86.5%
earned "Goodbye Little Bird"
41.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, French

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-02-17 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,94553%10

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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