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Renai Karichaimashita: Koikari - Love For Hire

ASa Project · NekoNyan Ltd. · 2021-10-22

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Jul 21, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 22, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 21, 2021 (PlayStation 4)

Due to family circumstances, Yuki has only one belief: money will make his little sister happy. And thus, he works part-time jobs late into the night. His plan is to start working full-time after graduation, but his little sister tells him that if he won't go to university, then she won't either.

Renai Karichaimashita: Koikari - Love For Hire is a 2021 Casual game priced at $29.99, with Very Positive (96% of 365 reviews) sentiment and an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000.

2
playing now
96%
positive of 365 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-16 02:00 UTC (census sample)

"Please go out with me!" "I want you to be my 'paramour.'" "Okay, here's your friend fee." "Why'd it turn out like this?" Shinkai Yuki is a siscon. Due to family circumstances, Yuki has only one belief: money will make his little sister happy. And thus, he works part-time jobs late into the night. His original plan was to start working full-time immediately after graduation, but one day, his little sister tells him that if he won't go to university, then she won't either. But Yuki can't let her suffer like that. Suddenly tasked with earning money for university tuition, Yuki signs up to be (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 33 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 29,944 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.3k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 365 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
656520212026Week of 2021-10-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-16 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 4 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-16 02:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$14.992021-10-222026-07-092021-10-22 — best price $26.992021-12-22 — best price $25.492022-01-27 — best price $25.492022-06-23 — best price $20.992022-11-22 — best price $17.992022-12-22 — best price $17.992023-03-16 — best price $17.992023-05-01 — best price $17.992023-06-30 — best price $17.992023-08-07 — best price $17.992023-10-09 — best price $17.992023-11-21 — best price $17.992023-12-21 — best price $17.992024-02-05 — best price $17.992024-03-14 — best price $17.992024-05-06 — best price $17.992024-06-27 — best price $17.992024-08-19 — best price $17.992024-09-30 — best price $17.992024-11-11 — best price $17.992024-11-27 — best price $17.992024-12-19 — best price $17.992025-01-24 — best price $17.992025-03-03 — best price $17.992025-03-13 — best price $17.992025-05-30 — best price $17.092025-06-27 — best price $17.092025-08-25 — best price $17.092025-09-29 — best price $17.092025-11-10 — best price $17.092025-12-18 — best price $17.092026-02-13 — best price $16.492026-03-19 — best price $16.492026-05-11 — best price $16.492026-06-25 — best price $14.992026-07-09 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
85.8%
earned "I'd Pay Anything for Love"
39.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeCasualComedyHentaiNudityRomanceStory RichSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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