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This Starry Midnight We Make

CAVYHOUSE · PLAYISM · 2015-06-01

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 12, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

This Starry Midnight We Make is a celestial growth simulation game where you create celestial objects using the mysterious Star-seeing Basin.

86%
positive of 56 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

"Hamomoru Tachibana, our protagonist, is an overly serious, easily-flustered clergywoman. While on vacation in Kyoto, Japan in the early 20th century, she went to visit a night festival at a local shrine. While enjoying one of the local specialties, she found herself lost in a deep forest road near the shrine. In the depths of the forest, flanked by a trio of archways, Hamomoru meets Chuuya Shingoh, a curious, self-professed student of sciences. Chuuya shows Hamomoru the "Star-seeing Basin", wherein one can seem to "grow" stars and a model of the night sky using pebbles, and invites Hamomoru (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 72% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 56 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2016-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620152025Week of 2015-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$1.992015-06-012026-08-062015-06-01 — best price $8.992015-06-11 — best price $8.992015-11-26 — best price $3.392015-12-22 — best price $3.392016-04-28 — best price $2.492016-06-23 — best price $2.492016-12-22 — best price $1.992017-03-30 — best price $2.492017-06-22 — best price $2.492017-11-22 — best price $2.492017-12-21 — best price $2.492018-06-21 — best price $2.492018-11-27 — best price $1.992018-12-21 — best price $1.992019-02-04 — best price $2.492019-04-29 — best price $2.492019-06-25 — best price $2.492020-01-23 — best price $2.492020-06-25 — best price $1.992020-10-29 — best price $2.492020-11-25 — best price $1.992020-12-22 — best price $1.992021-06-24 — best price $1.992021-11-24 — best price $1.992021-12-22 — best price $1.992022-06-23 — best price $1.992022-12-22 — best price $1.992023-03-16 — best price $1.992023-06-29 — best price $1.992023-11-21 — best price $3.192023-12-21 — best price $3.192024-03-14 — best price $2.492024-06-27 — best price $1.992024-11-27 — best price $1.992024-12-19 — best price $1.992025-03-13 — best price $1.992025-06-26 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $2.992026-07-23 — best price $2.992026-08-06 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Player tags

AnimeIndiePuzzleSimulationVisual Novel

Census log

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

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