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Shades of Sakura cover art

Shades of Sakura

BanzaiProject · 2021-07-22

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 22, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Shades of Sakura is a casual physics-based puzzle game. Challenge yourself to get 10 animated scenes with Live2D. Go on a fascinating journey through ancient Japan and our Samurai girls. Connect the balls by drawing lines to win!

Shades of Sakura is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG game released in 2021, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (70% of 593 reviews).

0
playing now
70%
positive of 593 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 30 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (145 reviews).
  • · Top 18% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 12k–27k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 593 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2023-06-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 8 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10510520212026Week of 2021-07-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

9202026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 92 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 4 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 4 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
731Jul 2021Jul 2026Jul 2021 — avg 73 · peak 281Aug 2021 — avg 5 · peak 19Sep 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Jul 2022 — avg 3 · peak 22Sep 2022 — avg 4 · peak 57Nov 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Dec 2022 — avg 3 · peak 12Jan 2023 — avg 2 · peak 12Mar 2023 — avg 3 · peak 18Apr 2023 — avg 8 · peak 409May 2023 — avg 2 · peak 14Jun 2023 — avg 17 · peak 154Jul 2023 — avg 19 · peak 121Aug 2023 — avg 10 · peak 104Dec 2023 — avg 3 · peak 20Jul 2024 — avg 4 · peak 181Sep 2024 — avg 13 · peak 158Nov 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2026 — avg 22 · peak 74
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$1.99$0.592021-07-222026-08-212021-07-22 — best price $1.692021-08-09 — best price $1.992021-11-24 — best price $1.392021-12-21 — best price $1.992022-01-27 — best price $1.192022-04-22 — best price $1.992022-06-23 — best price $1.092022-08-05 — best price $1.992022-11-22 — best price $0.892022-12-15 — best price $1.992023-01-20 — best price $0.792023-03-15 — best price $1.992023-04-21 — best price $0.692023-06-19 — best price $1.992023-12-11 — best price $0.772024-02-16 — best price $1.992024-03-22 — best price $0.892024-05-19 — best price $1.992024-08-09 — best price $0.772024-10-06 — best price $1.992024-11-27 — best price $0.772025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-02-18 — best price $0.772025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-05-18 — best price $0.772025-07-24 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $0.772025-10-21 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $0.772026-02-03 — best price $1.992026-04-25 — best price $0.772026-06-23 — best price $1.992026-08-07 — best price $0.772026-08-21 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

40
achievements tracked
46.5%
earned "level_1"
27.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing3 DLC

28 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch…

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2021-07-22 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)65874%40

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

Player tags

RPGNSFWAnimeIndieCasualHentaiMaturePuzzleAdventureDating Sim

Census log

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

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