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The Initial

Restory Studio · 2017-07-17

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 17, 2017 (Mac), Jul 17, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

THE INITIAL is a hyper action game about pretty schoolgirls battling against evil. It's developed by a small team of five developers. We hope you will love this game as much as we do.

The Initial is an Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG game released in 2017, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (76% of 1875 reviews).

0
playing now
77%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 75% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (850 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 47k–112k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,873 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2020-04-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
70970920172026Week of 2017-07-01: 709 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 141 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-14 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$3.992017-07-182020-07-092017-07-18 — best price $8.992017-09-18 — best price $7.992017-10-27 — best price $7.492017-11-22 — best price $7.492017-12-21 — best price $7.492018-02-12 — best price $4.992018-05-14 — best price $4.992018-06-21 — best price $4.992018-07-30 — best price $4.992018-10-08 — best price $4.992018-10-29 — best price $4.992018-12-10 — best price $4.992018-12-20 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $4.992019-03-11 — best price $4.992019-05-13 — best price $4.992019-06-25 — best price $4.992019-08-19 — best price $4.992019-10-28 — best price $4.492019-11-18 — best price $4.492019-11-26 — best price $5.492019-12-19 — best price $4.492020-04-27 — best price $3.992020-06-25 — best price $3.992020-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
98%
earned "The Initial"
19.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudStatsFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-07-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,2867%20

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

Player tags

RPGAnimeIndieActionNudityAdventureBeat 'em upSingleplayerHack and SlashSexual Content

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.