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To Be or Not to Be

Team K · DSGame · 2022-12-09

Steam

AdventureRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 09, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

This is a text adventure game that combines the gameplay of desktop pets and mini-games. You can advance the plot by clicking on the dialogue, or play mini-games to accumulate values to trigger new plots, and you can also cultivate your favorite characters by hanging up.

39
playing now
89%
positive of 8.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$12.99
steam price (US)

39 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Exploring the wonderful world of immortality on the computer desktop, your life has entered the countdown, and the only way to reset the hourglass of your life is... cultivating immortals!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 39 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 416 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~52/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,790 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 165k–372k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 8,267 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$12.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.84 at Steam (2026-06-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.5k1.5k20222026Week of 2022-12-01: 1,493 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 297 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 540 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 328 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 298 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 429 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 291 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 282 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 226 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 276 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

305122026-08-07 00:00 — 15 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 54 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 69 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 46 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 72 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 75 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 67 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 18 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 53 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 62 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 18 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 60 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 61 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 35 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 76 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 15 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 52 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 303 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 61 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 209 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 183 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 34 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 65 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 69 players2026-08-29 10:00 — 66 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 39 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.99$5.842022-12-092026-08-232022-12-09 — best price $11.692023-01-19 — best price $11.562023-03-03 — best price $11.562023-03-16 — best price $11.432023-08-07 — best price $11.042023-09-28 — best price $10.652023-11-13 — best price $10.392023-11-21 — best price $9.742023-12-21 — best price $9.352024-02-10 — best price $9.092024-03-14 — best price $8.962024-04-30 — best price $8.702024-06-12 — best price $8.702024-06-27 — best price $8.442024-08-03 — best price $8.182024-09-29 — best price $7.792024-11-08 — best price $7.792024-11-27 — best price $7.402024-12-19 — best price $7.142025-01-09 — best price $10.392025-03-04 — best price $7.142025-03-13 — best price $6.752025-04-20 — best price $6.752025-06-07 — best price $6.752025-06-27 — best price $6.752025-08-23 — best price $6.752025-09-29 — best price $6.492025-11-27 — best price $6.232025-12-18 — best price $6.232026-02-12 — best price $6.102026-03-19 — best price $6.102026-04-30 — best price $6.102026-06-12 — best price $6.102026-06-29 — best price $5.842026-08-18 — best price $5.842026-08-23 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

46
achievements tracked
93.8%
earned "可笑孝景不丈夫"
38%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,32619%46
Steam (Steam)1,00417%33
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

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

Player tags

FPSRPGNSFWHentaiMatureNudityAdventureComic BookStory RichSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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