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The Initial

Restory Studio · 2017-07-17

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

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.

0
playing now
76%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
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 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 47k–113k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,875 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

Players online

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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

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.