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PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness

MAGES. Inc. · NIS America, Inc. · 2017-04-24

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Adventure

Franchise: Psycho-Pass · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Apr 24, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 24, 2017 (Linux), Sep 13, 2016 (PlayStation 4), TBD (iOS), TBD (Android), Sep 16, 2016 (PlayStation Vita)

In a world where psychological states can be quantified, every choice has consequences, victims can become criminals, and the very nature of truth can warp and shift. Can detectives Nadeshiko Kugatachi and Takuma Tsurugi remain on the path of justice as they face the ugly truths of humanity?

79%
positive of 180 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (10 outlets, IGDB)
48/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
3.25★
PlayStation Store rating (3,567 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness is a visual novel video game developed by 5pb. It was originally released for the Xbox One in 2015 in Japan, with PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4 versions following in 2016 in Japan, North America and the PAL region. A Windows version was released on April 24, 2017. The game is based on the 2012 anime series Psycho-Pass.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 27,824 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.5k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 180 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620172026Week of 2017-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

3482026-07-15 — 18 pageviews2026-07-18 — 25 pageviews2026-07-21 — 12 pageviews2026-07-24 — 23 pageviews2026-07-27 — 21 pageviews2026-07-30 — 15 pageviews2026-08-02 — 19 pageviews2026-08-05 — 15 pageviews2026-08-08 — 22 pageviews2026-08-11 — 20 pageviews2026-08-14 — 16 pageviews2026-08-17 — 14 pageviews2026-08-20 — 17 pageviews2026-08-23 — 19 pageviews2026-08-26 — 31 pageviews2026-08-29 — 25 pageviews2026-09-01 — 34 pageviews2026-09-04 — 19 pageviews2026-09-07 — 21 pageviews2026-09-10 — 28 pageviews2026-09-13 — 31 pageviews2026-09-16 — 22 pageviews2026-09-19 — 17 pageviews2026-09-22 — 24 pageviews2026-09-25 — 14 pageviews2026-09-28 — 28 pageviews2026-10-01 — 25 pageviews2026-10-04 — 21 pageviews2026-10-07 — 18 pageviews2026-10-10 — 14 pageviews2026-10-11 — 23 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

36
achievements tracked
8%
earned "Achieved 100,000 Points"
4.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-04-24 (Steam store data)

Player tags

AnimeSci-fiAdventureCyberpunkDetectiveDystopian Story RichSingleplayerVisual NovelPsychological

Census log

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

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