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Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE cover art

Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE

VISUAL ARTS/Key · VISUAL ARTS · 2025-06-27

Steam

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jul 01, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 27, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 21, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Apr 27, 2021 (Android), Apr 27, 2021 (iOS)

No matter how much times passes... I remember that blue, blue summer. Summer Pockets, the midsummer story brought to you by Key, has been powered-up with even more to play, including new heroines and routes, in Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE, now available on Steam!

92%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
35h
to beat · rushed 30h · completionist 40h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$49.99
steam price (US)
Summer Pockets is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key, a brand of Visual Arts. It was released on June 29, 2018, for Windows and is rated for all ages. Summer Pockets is Key's 13th game, following its previous games such as Kanon, Air, and Clannad. An expanded version of the game titled Summer Pockets Reflection Blue was released on June 26, 2020, in Japan. Both the original game and Reflection Blue have been ported to iOS and Android devices, and Nintendo Switch. Reflection Blue has also additionally been ported to the PlayStation 4. An English version of the original game for Windows was released by Visual Arts in 2020. The story is set on a fictional island on the Seto Inland Sea and follows the life of Hairi Takahara, a young man who uses the recent death of his grandmother as an excuse to escape to the island after an unpleasant incident. Once there, he gets to know the townsfolk of Torishirojima and multiple girls who are the focus of the story.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 151 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~19/week).
  • · Review velocity up 110% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 14,405 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 27k–61k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,358 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$49.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $29.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $49.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days · $20.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
19819820252026Week of 2025-06-27: 198 positiveWeek of 2025-06-27: 171 negativeWeek of 2025-07-04: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-07-04: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-07-11: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-07-11: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-07-18: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-18: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-07-25: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-25: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-08: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-08-15: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-22: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-29: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-05: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-12: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-19: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-26: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-10-03: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-10-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-10: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-10-17: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-24: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-10-31: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-07: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-14: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-21: 81 positiveWeek of 2025-11-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-28: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-12-05: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-12: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-19: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-12-26: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-02: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-09: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-16: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-23: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-13: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-20: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-27: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-06: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-13: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-03-27: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-03: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-10: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-17: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-24: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-08: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-15: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-05: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-12: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-19: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-07-03: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-17: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-24: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-07: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-14: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-08-21: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-28: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-09-04: 13 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$49.99$29.992025-06-272026-09-072025-06-27 — best price $44.992025-07-11 — best price $49.992025-09-29 — best price $42.492025-10-06 — best price $49.992025-11-21 — best price $39.992025-11-28 — best price $49.992025-12-18 — best price $37.492026-01-05 — best price $49.992026-03-19 — best price $34.992026-03-26 — best price $49.992026-06-25 — best price $29.992026-07-09 — best price $49.992026-07-20 — best price $32.492026-07-27 — best price $49.992026-08-31 — best price $29.992026-09-07 — best price $49.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3031042026-06-11 — 108 pageviews2026-06-14 — 129 pageviews2026-06-17 — 112 pageviews2026-06-20 — 120 pageviews2026-06-23 — 117 pageviews2026-06-26 — 197 pageviews2026-06-29 — 117 pageviews2026-07-02 — 124 pageviews2026-07-05 — 218 pageviews2026-07-08 — 191 pageviews2026-07-11 — 163 pageviews2026-07-14 — 148 pageviews2026-07-17 — 197 pageviews2026-07-20 — 144 pageviews2026-07-23 — 150 pageviews2026-07-26 — 141 pageviews2026-07-29 — 137 pageviews2026-08-01 — 134 pageviews2026-08-04 — 123 pageviews2026-08-07 — 124 pageviews2026-08-10 — 133 pageviews2026-08-13 — 167 pageviews2026-08-16 — 139 pageviews2026-08-19 — 108 pageviews2026-08-22 — 150 pageviews2026-08-25 — 139 pageviews2026-08-28 — 104 pageviews2026-08-31 — 293 pageviews2026-09-03 — 152 pageviews2026-09-06 — 159 pageviews2026-09-08 — 137 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
31.6%
earned "Good Morning"
19.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsKeyboard Only OptionMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller Support

2 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)12269%23
Steam (Steam)10616%23
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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