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Sanfu

Shiying Studio · Gamirror Games · 2023-07-27

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jul 28, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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Sanfu is an Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2023 for $10.99, with an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (83% of 17,828 reviews).

19
playing now
83%
positive of 18k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$10.99
steam price (US)

19 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Sanfu trailer thumbnail

《三伏》「精神污染」宣傳影片 Sanfu Official Trailer

≈5,729 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 19 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 524 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~66/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (9,226 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 357k–804k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 17,864 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.49 at Steam (2025-07-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $10.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7.8k7.8k20232026Week of 2023-07-01: 7,771 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1,455 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3,004 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 828 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 353 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 461 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5702026-09-15 12:00 — 21 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 10 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 20 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 6 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 17 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 5 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 26 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 7 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 22 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 44 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 32 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 57 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 24 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 35 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 5 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 10 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 19 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
45114Aug 2023Aug 2026Aug 2023 — avg 451 · peak 4,195Sep 2023 — avg 81 · peak 338Oct 2023 — avg 39 · peak 141Nov 2023 — avg 38 · peak 176Dec 2023 — avg 37 · peak 144Jan 2024 — avg 35 · peak 119Feb 2024 — avg 44 · peak 169Mar 2024 — avg 32 · peak 133Apr 2024 — avg 28 · peak 96May 2024 — avg 22 · peak 93Jun 2024 — avg 30 · peak 114Jul 2024 — avg 34 · peak 95Aug 2024 — avg 23 · peak 68Sep 2024 — avg 19 · peak 65Oct 2024 — avg 15 · peak 58Nov 2024 — avg 22 · peak 112Dec 2024 — avg 26 · peak 104Jan 2025 — avg 22 · peak 78Feb 2025 — avg 28 · peak 150Mar 2025 — avg 25 · peak 101Apr 2025 — avg 22 · peak 96May 2025 — avg 16 · peak 51Jun 2025 — avg 18 · peak 81Jul 2025 — avg 53 · peak 242Aug 2025 — avg 40 · peak 186Sep 2025 — avg 19 · peak 76Oct 2025 — avg 29 · peak 97Nov 2025 — avg 21 · peak 99Dec 2025 — avg 18 · peak 72Jan 2026 — avg 18 · peak 67Feb 2026 — avg 25 · peak 90Mar 2026 — avg 18 · peak 76Apr 2026 — avg 16 · peak 54May 2026 — avg 14 · peak 48Jun 2026 — avg 16 · peak 64Jul 2026 — avg 25 · peak 115Aug 2026 — avg 26 · peak 91
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$99.99$5.492022-09-152026-08-102022-09-15 — best price $99.992023-08-03 — best price $10.992023-11-22 — best price $99.992023-12-21 — best price $9.342024-02-06 — best price $8.792024-03-14 — best price $8.792024-04-18 — best price $8.792024-06-01 — best price $8.792024-06-27 — best price $7.692024-11-05 — best price $7.692024-11-27 — best price $6.592024-12-19 — best price $6.592025-02-17 — best price $6.592025-03-13 — best price $6.592025-04-18 — best price $6.592025-06-26 — best price $6.592025-07-21 — best price $5.492025-09-29 — best price $6.592025-10-21 — best price $6.592025-12-18 — best price $6.592026-02-09 — best price $6.592026-03-19 — best price $6.592026-04-18 — best price $6.592026-06-25 — best price $6.592026-07-27 — best price $5.492026-08-10 — best price $10.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

9
achievements tracked
93.5%
earned "桃色秘事"
71.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-07-28 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,00269%9

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.

Player tags

2DRPGDramaRetroPuzzleFantasyMysteryColorfulAdventureDetective

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.