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Sani Yang's Laboratory

TALESSHOP Co., Ltd. · Smilegate · 2025-09-29

Steam

AdventureSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Bird view / Isometric, Text

Releases: Sep 29, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You wake up in the world of anthropomorphic creatures. After finding you've been the subject of a certain lab's experiments, you must find the ulterior goals hidden from sight. Is this lab secretly a threat to the human world? Or is there more to it that you simply cannot understand?

99%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$18.74
steam price (US)

In the game, you run Professor Saniyang's lab. A university lab is made up of the blood and sweat of graduate students. Therefore, you need to bring in graduate students to work.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 148 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~19/week).
  • · Review velocity down 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 13,555 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 23k–52k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,157 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$18.74-25%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $18.74 at Steam (2026-06-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 7 of 19 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
808020252026Week of 2025-09-30: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-07: 80 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-14: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-25: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 9 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$18.742025-09-302026-09-062025-09-30 — best price $22.492025-10-13 — best price $24.992025-12-03 — best price $22.492025-12-17 — best price $24.992025-12-18 — best price $22.492026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-01-20 — best price $19.992026-02-03 — best price $24.992026-03-05 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-04-23 — best price $19.992026-05-07 — best price $24.992026-06-12 — best price $18.742026-06-22 — best price $24.992026-06-25 — best price $18.742026-07-09 — best price $24.992026-07-24 — best price $18.742026-08-07 — best price $24.992026-09-06 — best price $18.74
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
90.9%
earned "Is this heaven?"
22.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeSubtitle OptionsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2025-09-30, latest 2025-12-03 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10616%16

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

Census log

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

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