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The Amazing Shinsengumi: Heroes in Love cover art

The Amazing Shinsengumi: Heroes in Love

Dogenzaka Lab · 2016-07-26

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 09, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 26, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 18, 2014 (iOS), Nov 20, 2014 (Android)

The Shinsengumi: defenders of the capital. In this game, you can fall in love with a rugged, passionate Shinsengumi captain.

56%
positive of 112 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
40/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
15h
time to beat (IGDB)
$15.99
steam price (US)

The year is 1864, at the end of the Edo period. A group of men bravely took action to extinguish a burning house. Those men were part of a group called the Shinsengumi. In order to protect the city of Kyoto, they would rush to any place that needed them. The curtain rises on the crusade of the members of the Shinsengumi, whose hearts burn as passionately as a the flames they fight...(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 65% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.8k–6.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 112 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$15.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2016-11-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $15.99 · on sale 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720162026Week of 2016-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$15.99$3.992016-07-272026-08-172016-07-27 — best price $9.592016-12-22 — best price $3.992017-06-22 — best price $5.592017-11-22 — best price $5.592018-02-15 — best price $5.592018-09-17 — best price $5.592018-12-21 — best price $5.592019-03-18 — best price $5.592019-06-25 — best price $5.592019-11-26 — best price $5.592020-01-23 — best price $5.592020-03-16 — best price $5.592020-06-25 — best price $5.592020-10-29 — best price $5.592020-12-22 — best price $5.592021-03-11 — best price $5.592021-06-24 — best price $4.792021-12-22 — best price $4.792022-03-24 — best price $3.992022-09-14 — best price $4.792022-12-22 — best price $4.792023-06-29 — best price $4.792023-09-18 — best price $4.792023-12-21 — best price $4.792024-06-27 — best price $4.792024-11-27 — best price $4.792025-02-18 — best price $3.992025-04-28 — best price $4.792025-08-25 — best price $4.792025-11-03 — best price $4.792026-02-16 — best price $4.792026-04-27 — best price $4.792026-06-25 — best price $4.792026-08-17 — best price $15.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
79.2%
earned "Completed the Prologue"
17.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese

Player tags

AnimeOtomeAdventureVisual NovelFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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