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the 9th day:第九日

Lingtan Studio · 2017-02-16

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 16, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The story of The 9th Day, that started with the autumn fire incident, begins here…

92%
positive of 316 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$8.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (87 reviews).
  • · Top 27% of 24,614 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.9k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 316 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $6.29 at Steam (2017-02-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
868620172026Week of 2017-02-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$8.99$6.292017-02-172026-03-262017-02-17 — best price $6.292017-06-22 — best price $6.742017-10-26 — best price $6.472017-12-21 — best price $6.742018-02-15 — best price $6.292018-06-21 — best price $6.292018-10-29 — best price $7.642018-11-22 — best price $7.192018-12-20 — best price $6.292019-02-04 — best price $6.292019-06-25 — best price $6.292019-10-28 — best price $7.192019-11-26 — best price $7.192019-12-19 — best price $6.292020-01-23 — best price $6.292020-03-03 — best price $7.192020-06-25 — best price $7.192020-12-22 — best price $6.292021-06-24 — best price $6.292021-11-24 — best price $6.292021-12-22 — best price $6.292022-06-24 — best price $7.192023-03-16 — best price $6.292023-06-30 — best price $6.292023-08-07 — best price $6.292025-03-13 — best price $6.292025-06-26 — best price $6.292026-03-19 — best price $6.292026-03-26 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
66.8%
earned "First Save"
23.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing4 DLC

1 supported languages: Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 4 DLC released, first 2017-02-14, latest 2018-12-04 (Steam store data)

Player tags

AnimeIndieAdventureVisual Novel

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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