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Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire

Dark One! · Shiravune · 2021-11-04

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 26, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Saimin Gakushū is a school adventure visual novel by popular Japanese developers Dark One! Soichi Akano acquires a sleep-learning machine through a dubious online shopping site, and plans to imprint his knowledge on the female students and teachers at his school.

75%
positive of 516 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 41 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (128 reviews).
  • · Top 40% of 11,408 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 10k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 516 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at GOG (2025-01-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 17 of 36 observed days · $16.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
999920212026Week of 2021-11-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 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.

Price history

$19.99$3.992021-11-052026-08-302021-11-05 — best price $15.992022-01-27 — best price $15.992022-06-24 — best price $11.992022-09-16 — best price $11.992022-11-22 — best price $11.992023-01-20 — best price $9.992023-04-14 — best price $9.992023-08-07 — best price $7.992023-10-26 — best price $7.992023-12-21 — best price $5.992024-02-20 — best price $19.992024-04-11 — best price $5.992024-05-27 — best price $5.992024-06-27 — best price $5.992024-08-03 — best price $5.992024-09-26 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $5.992024-12-19 — best price $5.992025-01-16 — best price $3.992025-02-13 — best price $5.992025-03-13 — best price $3.992025-06-04 — best price $5.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-09-21 — best price $19.992025-11-05 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-02-26 — best price $19.992026-04-12 — best price $3.992026-05-26 — best price $3.992026-06-17 — best price $3.992026-07-24 — best price $3.992026-08-28 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

NSFWAnimeHentaiMatureNuditySci-fiRomanceSurrealAdventureDating Sim

Census log

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

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