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The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty cover art

The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty

零创游戏(ZerocreationGame) · 2024-04-22

SteamGOG

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 22, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 13, 2025 (Nintendo Switch)

He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.

The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty is an Adventure, Indie and RPG game released in 2024, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners and a Very Positive (94% of 59780 reviews) sentiment.

117
playing now
94%
positive of 60k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

117 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 16:00 UTC (census sample)

The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty is a 2024 visual novel video game developed by ZerocreationGame and published by both ZerocreationGame and 2P Games.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 117 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3,157 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~395/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (8,901 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.2M–2.7M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 59,780 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$6.99-30%
GOG$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.29 at Fanatical (2025-11-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 65 of 103 observed days · $4.70 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8.7k8.7k20242026Week of 2024-04-01: 3,691 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 244 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 8,696 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 205 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7,779 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 160 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 6,402 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 182 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3,065 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 109 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,754 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,829 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2,214 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3,164 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 132 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,723 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 740 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1,161 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 578 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 565 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 761 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 408 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 742 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 601 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 346 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 523 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 309 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 269 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 332 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 880 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 318 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 226 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 334 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

204232026-08-06 21:00 — 23 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 122 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 167 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 24 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 124 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 148 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 35 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 106 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 204 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 27 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 106 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 177 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 30 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 100 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 188 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 41 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 102 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 141 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 38 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 77 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 111 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 47 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 72 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 123 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 67 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 54 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 134 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 90 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 36 players2026-08-30 16:00 — 117 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$5.292024-04-232026-08-302024-04-23 — best price $7.992024-06-10 — best price $7.992024-07-20 — best price $7.892024-09-09 — best price $9.992024-10-25 — best price $6.392024-11-24 — best price $7.342024-12-06 — best price $7.382024-12-30 — best price $7.492025-01-22 — best price $9.992025-03-03 — best price $6.392025-03-28 — best price $7.892025-04-27 — best price $9.992025-05-19 — best price $7.992025-06-14 — best price $7.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-07-25 — best price $5.802025-08-11 — best price $9.992025-08-27 — best price $7.892025-09-14 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-11-03 — best price $5.792025-11-25 — best price $9.992025-12-12 — best price $6.992026-01-11 — best price $9.992026-02-04 — best price $6.992026-02-20 — best price $6.992026-03-09 — best price $5.292026-03-27 — best price $7.342026-04-13 — best price $5.442026-05-16 — best price $9.992026-05-24 — best price $9.992026-06-19 — best price $5.442026-07-14 — best price $9.992026-08-03 — best price $5.542026-08-28 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

9502026-05-29 — 8 pageviews2026-06-01 — 10 pageviews2026-06-04 — 11 pageviews2026-06-07 — 6 pageviews2026-06-10 — 4 pageviews2026-06-13 — 4 pageviews2026-06-16 — 3 pageviews2026-06-19 — 6 pageviews2026-06-22 — 10 pageviews2026-06-25 — 12 pageviews2026-06-28 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 9 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 6 pageviews2026-07-10 — 24 pageviews2026-07-13 — 8 pageviews2026-07-16 — 4 pageviews2026-07-19 — 5 pageviews2026-07-22 — 3 pageviews2026-07-25 — 5 pageviews2026-07-28 — 2 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-06 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 5 pageviews2026-08-12 — 0 pageviews2026-08-15 — 2 pageviews2026-08-18 — 8 pageviews2026-08-21 — 0 pageviews2026-08-24 — 4 pageviews2026-08-26 — 7 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-26 19:15 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
65.3%
earned "Ending: Killed by the Cat"
44.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

7 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, French, Italian, Ukrainian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,39944%16
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGCuteDarkAnimeDramaCookingRomanceAdventureWord GameDating Sim

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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