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The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart

TOKYOTOON · 2019-06-17

SteamAmazon

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 18, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 28, 2017 (PlayStation Vita)

Once upon a time, after his mother passed away, a boy called Nora felt all alone in the world. He spent every day with his unique and kind hearted friends until one fateful day, he had a chance encounter with a princess from the Netherworld.

1
playing now
90%
positive of 373 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Nora, Princess, and Stray Cat, released in English as The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart, is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Harukaze and was released for Windows on February 26, 2016. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation aired from July to September 2017. PlayStation Vita (PSV) version of the game was released on September 28, 2017. The original title is Nora to Ōjo to Noraneko Heart , and it is officially abbreviated as Noratoto (ノラとと) in Japan.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 45% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.3k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 373 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-12 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$5.992019-06-182026-07-202019-06-18 — best price $15.992019-10-28 — best price $16.992019-12-19 — best price $16.992020-03-03 — best price $16.992020-06-25 — best price $13.992020-11-25 — best price $13.992021-04-29 — best price $11.992021-10-28 — best price $11.992021-12-22 — best price $11.992022-04-29 — best price $9.992022-10-27 — best price $9.992022-12-23 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $9.992023-06-05 — best price $11.992023-08-07 — best price $7.992023-10-30 — best price $13.992023-12-21 — best price $6.992024-03-14 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $6.992024-09-17 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $6.992025-01-20 — best price $5.992025-03-13 — best price $7.992025-06-09 — best price $9.992025-07-21 — best price $13.992025-09-29 — best price $5.992025-11-24 — best price $9.992026-01-19 — best price $5.992026-03-19 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $5.992026-07-20 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3062026-06-01 — 10 pageviews2026-06-04 — 7 pageviews2026-06-07 — 19 pageviews2026-06-10 — 25 pageviews2026-06-13 — 19 pageviews2026-06-16 — 13 pageviews2026-06-19 — 11 pageviews2026-06-22 — 19 pageviews2026-06-25 — 11 pageviews2026-06-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-01 — 24 pageviews2026-07-04 — 19 pageviews2026-07-07 — 11 pageviews2026-07-10 — 16 pageviews2026-07-13 — 11 pageviews2026-07-16 — 24 pageviews2026-07-19 — 8 pageviews2026-07-22 — 9 pageviews2026-07-25 — 15 pageviews2026-07-28 — 13 pageviews2026-07-31 — 15 pageviews2026-08-03 — 12 pageviews2026-08-06 — 29 pageviews2026-08-09 — 18 pageviews2026-08-12 — 9 pageviews2026-08-15 — 14 pageviews2026-08-18 — 7 pageviews2026-08-21 — 10 pageviews2026-08-24 — 18 pageviews2026-08-27 — 17 pageviews2026-08-29 — 19 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing6 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeMagicComedyHentaiNudityFantasyRomanceColorful

Census log

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

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