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

TOKYOTOON · 2019-06-17

SteamAmazon

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

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.

The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart is a $19.99 Adventure and Casual game released in 2019, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Very Positive reviews (90% of 374 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
90%
positive of 374 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 21 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 28,914 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 9.3k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 374 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 8 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720192026Week of 2019-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 0 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

4962026-06-01 — 10 pageviews2026-06-05 — 20 pageviews2026-06-09 — 25 pageviews2026-06-13 — 19 pageviews2026-06-17 — 13 pageviews2026-06-21 — 15 pageviews2026-06-25 — 11 pageviews2026-06-29 — 8 pageviews2026-07-03 — 15 pageviews2026-07-07 — 11 pageviews2026-07-11 — 6 pageviews2026-07-15 — 11 pageviews2026-07-19 — 8 pageviews2026-07-23 — 30 pageviews2026-07-27 — 14 pageviews2026-07-31 — 15 pageviews2026-08-04 — 11 pageviews2026-08-08 — 25 pageviews2026-08-12 — 9 pageviews2026-08-16 — 9 pageviews2026-08-20 — 15 pageviews2026-08-24 — 18 pageviews2026-08-28 — 16 pageviews2026-09-01 — 14 pageviews2026-09-05 — 21 pageviews2026-09-09 — 22 pageviews2026-09-13 — 19 pageviews2026-09-17 — 11 pageviews2026-09-21 — 11 pageviews2026-09-25 — 10 pageviews2026-09-29 — 19 pageviews2026-10-03 — 12 pageviews2026-10-07 — 14 pageviews2026-10-10 — 43 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
65.3%
earned "My House is Burning!"
31.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing6 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 6 DLC released, first 2019-06-18, latest 2019-07-25 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)31343%15

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

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeMagicComedyHentaiNudityFantasyRomanceColorful

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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