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Stray Children

Onion Games · 2025-10-30

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 26, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 30, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

“The Olders, they come to eat the Children…” All of the adults have become monsters, the rumors say. Nowhere is safe outside these walls. Welcome to Stray Children — a bittersweet, fairy tale RPG.

Stray Children is an Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2025, priced at $29.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 197 reviews).

80%
positive of 200 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)
Stray Children is a role-playing video game developed by Onion Games, a games company formed by members of Love-de-Lic. It was released in Japan on December 26, 2024, and October 30, 2025, worldwide. The game begins with a child being sucked into a television set into a world inhabited with children that have put up a wall to protect themselves from "Olders", adults that have become monstrous because of their inadequacies and personal issues.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 71% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (64 reviews).
  • · Top 29% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.0k–9.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 200 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $23.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 4 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
484820252026Week of 2025-10-30: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-11-06: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-11-06: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-13: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-04: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-25: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-08: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$23.992025-10-302026-08-132025-10-30 — best price $26.992025-11-09 — best price $29.992025-12-18 — best price $23.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-02-05 — best price $26.992026-02-14 — best price $29.992026-03-19 — best price $26.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-05-01 — best price $23.992026-05-09 — best price $29.992026-06-25 — best price $23.992026-07-09 — best price $29.992026-07-30 — best price $23.992026-08-13 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

7672026-05-30 — 25 pageviews2026-06-03 — 29 pageviews2026-06-07 — 17 pageviews2026-06-11 — 21 pageviews2026-06-15 — 24 pageviews2026-06-19 — 31 pageviews2026-06-23 — 16 pageviews2026-06-27 — 36 pageviews2026-07-01 — 27 pageviews2026-07-05 — 31 pageviews2026-07-09 — 17 pageviews2026-07-13 — 27 pageviews2026-07-17 — 21 pageviews2026-07-21 — 12 pageviews2026-07-25 — 40 pageviews2026-07-29 — 39 pageviews2026-08-02 — 35 pageviews2026-08-06 — 22 pageviews2026-08-10 — 25 pageviews2026-08-14 — 20 pageviews2026-08-18 — 15 pageviews2026-08-22 — 15 pageviews2026-08-26 — 29 pageviews2026-08-30 — 16 pageviews2026-09-03 — 25 pageviews2026-09-07 — 17 pageviews2026-09-11 — 13 pageviews2026-09-15 — 11 pageviews2026-09-19 — 12 pageviews2026-09-23 — 19 pageviews2026-09-27 — 26 pageviews2026-10-01 — 18 pageviews2026-10-05 — 32 pageviews2026-10-08 — 76 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
93.5%
earned "First Campfire"
19.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportKeyboard Only OptionDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportStereo SoundSteam Cloud

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1503%24

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.

Recent updates

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