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Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

EXPERIENCE · Aksys Games · 2019-04-04

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Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Jan 18, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Oct 31, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 04, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 25, 2018 (Xbox One), Oct 31, 2018 (PlayStation Vita)

A strange rumor is spreading through the shadows of Tokyo's H City: a mysterious disfigurement has been appearing on the bodies of certain individuals. Anyone who receives the Mark will rapidly die of unknown, horrifying causes. The countdown to death has already begun...

83%
positive of 529 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
70/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
4.47★
PlayStation Store rating (592 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$49.99
steam price (US)
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark is a horror visual novel adventure game developed and published by Experience, and is the first entry in the Spirit Hunter series. It was originally released in June 2017 for PlayStation Vita in Japan, and was later ported to PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. The game was published worldwide by Aksys Games in October 2018 for the same platforms except Xbox One, and was additionally released for Microsoft Windows in both English and Japanese in April 2019. It is followed by two sequels: 2018's Spirit Hunter: NG, and 2022's Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 33 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 28% of 18,119 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 529 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$16.00-68%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.99 at Fanatical (2022-02-11) · bundled 12×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $49.99 · on sale 58 of 79 observed days · $11.01 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$49.99$5.992019-03-152026-09-182019-03-15 — best price $49.992019-11-01 — best price $49.992020-03-17 — best price $18.992020-06-11 — best price $49.992020-07-21 — best price $44.892020-09-13 — best price $44.892020-10-16 — best price $44.892020-11-28 — best price $19.992021-01-20 — best price $42.392021-03-18 — best price $18.492021-04-25 — best price $49.992021-08-20 — best price $19.992021-11-16 — best price $49.992022-01-14 — best price $19.992022-03-28 — best price $49.992022-06-10 — best price $16.002022-09-06 — best price $49.992022-11-21 — best price $15.492023-02-04 — best price $39.892023-05-22 — best price $14.992023-09-22 — best price $36.742023-12-02 — best price $39.892024-02-27 — best price $36.742024-06-20 — best price $19.992024-09-16 — best price $15.492024-12-03 — best price $36.742025-02-22 — best price $39.892025-06-20 — best price $15.492025-10-07 — best price $49.992026-02-09 — best price $16.992026-05-12 — best price $49.992026-07-24 — best price $19.992026-09-18 — best price $16.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

56182026-06-21 — 37 pageviews2026-06-24 — 33 pageviews2026-06-27 — 38 pageviews2026-06-30 — 25 pageviews2026-07-03 — 56 pageviews2026-07-06 — 42 pageviews2026-07-09 — 25 pageviews2026-07-12 — 36 pageviews2026-07-15 — 49 pageviews2026-07-18 — 34 pageviews2026-07-21 — 26 pageviews2026-07-24 — 45 pageviews2026-07-27 — 44 pageviews2026-07-30 — 29 pageviews2026-08-02 — 30 pageviews2026-08-05 — 30 pageviews2026-08-08 — 26 pageviews2026-08-11 — 44 pageviews2026-08-14 — 34 pageviews2026-08-17 — 23 pageviews2026-08-20 — 33 pageviews2026-08-23 — 34 pageviews2026-08-26 — 38 pageviews2026-08-29 — 38 pageviews2026-09-01 — 35 pageviews2026-09-04 — 32 pageviews2026-09-07 — 25 pageviews2026-09-10 — 46 pageviews2026-09-13 — 48 pageviews2026-09-16 — 33 pageviews2026-09-18 — 25 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
83.6%
earned "Kujou Mansion"
33.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,09219%31
Switch (Nintendo)310%0

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

Player tags

JRPGAnimeHorrorMysteryViolentAdventureDetectiveStory RichSupernaturalVisual Novel

Census log

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

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