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Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly cover art

Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly

IDEA FACTORY · Intragames · 2018-11-15

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 27, 2018 (PlayStation Vita), Nov 15, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Awakening in a mysterious mansion, her first, frantic thoughts are: 'Where am I? And more importantly, WHO am I?'

1
playing now
85%
positive of 910 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly and Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk are two otome visual novel video games developed by Otomate. They were published for PlayStation Vita by Idea Factory in Japan in 2015 and 2016, and by Aksys Games in North America and Europe in 2018. Intragames and Idea Factory released Black Butterfly for Microsoft Windows in 2018, and Ashen Hawk in 2019.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 31% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 23k–55k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 910 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.88 at eTail.Market (2022-08-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 53 of 65 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

812026-08-12 03:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 10:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 7 players2026-08-16 02:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 09:00 — 8 players2026-08-18 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 09:00 — 5 players2026-08-20 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 6 players2026-08-29 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$6.482018-11-152026-08-112018-11-15 — best price $26.992019-11-26 — best price $14.992020-10-29 — best price $8.992021-11-24 — best price $7.492022-07-12 — best price $20.902022-08-17 — best price $22.902022-10-31 — best price $29.992022-12-12 — best price $6.852023-01-11 — best price $23.992023-02-14 — best price $29.992023-04-18 — best price $11.992023-05-14 — best price $14.962023-07-13 — best price $29.992023-08-07 — best price $7.492023-09-20 — best price $9.892023-11-21 — best price $7.492023-12-30 — best price $22.982024-02-12 — best price $8.992024-03-17 — best price $22.982024-04-06 — best price $27.562024-05-01 — best price $23.892024-06-04 — best price $23.992024-07-31 — best price $23.992024-09-07 — best price $29.992024-11-02 — best price $13.502024-12-05 — best price $23.892025-01-21 — best price $22.982025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-05-08 — best price $29.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-08-19 — best price $8.992025-10-03 — best price $29.992025-11-04 — best price $21.412026-02-09 — best price $7.492026-04-22 — best price $23.892026-06-25 — best price $7.492026-07-25 — best price $10.742026-08-11 — best price $23.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2312026-06-01 — 13 pageviews2026-06-04 — 13 pageviews2026-06-07 — 12 pageviews2026-06-10 — 11 pageviews2026-06-13 — 14 pageviews2026-06-16 — 3 pageviews2026-06-19 — 7 pageviews2026-06-22 — 5 pageviews2026-06-25 — 22 pageviews2026-06-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-01 — 12 pageviews2026-07-04 — 11 pageviews2026-07-07 — 5 pageviews2026-07-10 — 5 pageviews2026-07-13 — 10 pageviews2026-07-16 — 9 pageviews2026-07-19 — 9 pageviews2026-07-22 — 11 pageviews2026-07-25 — 10 pageviews2026-07-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-31 — 7 pageviews2026-08-03 — 8 pageviews2026-08-06 — 14 pageviews2026-08-09 — 6 pageviews2026-08-12 — 13 pageviews2026-08-15 — 11 pageviews2026-08-18 — 5 pageviews2026-08-21 — 7 pageviews2026-08-24 — 3 pageviews2026-08-27 — 6 pageviews2026-08-29 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

33
achievements tracked
74.6%
earned "The First Hunt"
32.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Korean, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS Vita (PlayStation)81588%34
Steam (Steam)27648%33

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

Player tags

AnimeOtomeMysteryRomanceAdventureStory RichVisual NovelMultiple EndingsFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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