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The Manga Works

Kairosoft Co.,Ltd · 2022-07-24

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 13, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Aug 06, 2016 (iOS), Nov 07, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 04, 2016 (Android), May 02, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), May 02, 2024 (Xbox One)

Make history with manga! Turn your work into anime, drama, and even movies!

71%
positive of 285 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.99
steam price (US)

It's the manga artist experience you've been waiting for! Create a manga masterpiece and draw your way into the nation's heart. Start out as a fledgling manga artist in a small and empty room... Armed with only a single pen, draw the best manga you can and march proudly to the publishers to show off your work. Ideas are the lifeblood of a manga artist. Go out in search of inspiration and gather plot points, then stuff your manga full of creativity. Accumulate experience points and use them to train up your drawing, storytelling, and other skills. When you think you've created a great one-sh(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 81 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity up 350% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 16,818 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.7k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 285 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$11.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.23 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $8.76 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
484820222026Week of 2022-07-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

6
achievements tracked
91.4%
earned "Let's start by drawing."
47.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)37115%6
PS4 (PlayStation)11847%6
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)4035%10
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteCasualEconomyLife SimStrategyEducationColony SimComic BookManagement

Census log

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

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