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The Silver Case

GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC. · 2016-10-06

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 07, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 07, 2016 (Mac), Apr 18, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Jul 06, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 07, 2016 (Linux)

The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!

10
playing now
89%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
critic score (10 outlets, IGDB)
65/100
IGDB user rating (24 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

10 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

The Silver Case is an adventure visual novel video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by ASCII Entertainment for the PlayStation in 1999. It was directed, designed and co-written by Goichi Suda. A remastered version was released digitally by Grasshopper Manufacture worldwide for Windows and macOS in 2016. A port for the PlayStation 4 was released by NIS America in 2017; this was a physical release. A Japanese release of the PlayStation 4 version was released in March 2018 by Nippon Ichi Software. A Linux port was released in August 2017. A port for the Nintendo DS was also in development; it was never released due to Suda's dissatisfaction with the final product. A port for the Nintendo Switch was released in 2021.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 28% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 30k–71k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,191 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2024-09-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 10 of 21 observed days · $15.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1802026-08-11 18:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 9 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 18 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 13 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 17 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 12 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 10 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 15 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 10 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 11 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 11 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 8 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 10 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 9 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 10 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$4.992016-10-062026-08-302016-10-06 — best price $17.992017-01-16 — best price $13.992017-05-01 — best price $11.992017-06-21 — best price $19.992017-09-26 — best price $19.992017-12-12 — best price $9.792018-03-12 — best price $7.992018-05-28 — best price $9.792018-08-30 — best price $9.792018-11-22 — best price $7.992019-02-25 — best price $19.992019-05-23 — best price $19.992019-06-20 — best price $7.992019-08-29 — best price $7.992019-11-01 — best price $19.992020-01-02 — best price $19.992020-03-02 — best price $19.992020-05-04 — best price $19.992020-09-17 — best price $7.992020-12-22 — best price $7.992021-06-07 — best price $19.992021-10-04 — best price $19.992022-01-15 — best price $19.992022-08-01 — best price $19.992022-12-01 — best price $19.992023-02-21 — best price $19.992023-05-27 — best price $19.992023-10-26 — best price $5.992024-02-06 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-03-19 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $4.992025-12-04 — best price $4.992026-04-03 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
53.8%
earned "Lunatic"
18.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,69011%25

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

Player tags

AnimeCrimeFunnyHorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveStory RichText-Based

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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