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UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~ cover art

UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~

LYCORIS · Sekai Project · 2023-11-03

SteamGOG

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Aug 13, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 18, 2026 (Nintendo Switch)

This is a story about finding love to overwrite the feelings for the one they held dearest. A girls love visual novel about summer, love and adolescence.

92%
positive of 447 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)
UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~ is a yuri visual novel developed by LYCORIS, that was released worldwide on November 3, 2023.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 27 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 59% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (128 reviews).
  • · Top 31% of 17,648 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.9k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 447 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$17.49-30%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$17.49-30%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $14.99 at GOG (2025-06-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 26 of 45 observed days · $2.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12112120232026Week of 2023-11-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$14.992023-11-032026-09-182023-11-03 — best price $22.492023-12-14 — best price $22.492024-01-15 — best price $21.242024-02-06 — best price $24.992024-03-14 — best price $19.992024-04-18 — best price $19.992024-05-13 — best price $24.992024-06-17 — best price $17.492024-07-11 — best price $24.992024-08-14 — best price $24.992024-09-25 — best price $19.992024-11-04 — best price $17.492024-11-20 — best price $24.992024-12-12 — best price $17.492025-01-16 — best price $17.492025-02-13 — best price $17.492025-03-06 — best price $17.492025-03-19 — best price $17.492025-04-18 — best price $24.992025-05-07 — best price $17.492025-05-30 — best price $24.992025-06-26 — best price $14.992025-07-26 — best price $24.992025-08-13 — best price $14.992025-09-25 — best price $14.992025-10-20 — best price $14.992025-11-17 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-02-26 — best price $24.992026-03-19 — best price $14.992026-04-22 — best price $24.992026-05-14 — best price $24.992026-06-17 — best price $17.492026-08-09 — best price $17.492026-09-10 — best price $24.992026-09-18 — best price $17.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4342026-06-19 — 43 pageviews2026-06-22 — 22 pageviews2026-06-25 — 26 pageviews2026-06-28 — 11 pageviews2026-07-01 — 17 pageviews2026-07-04 — 15 pageviews2026-07-07 — 6 pageviews2026-07-10 — 11 pageviews2026-07-13 — 25 pageviews2026-07-16 — 8 pageviews2026-07-19 — 15 pageviews2026-07-22 — 14 pageviews2026-07-25 — 14 pageviews2026-07-28 — 13 pageviews2026-07-31 — 9 pageviews2026-08-03 — 13 pageviews2026-08-06 — 9 pageviews2026-08-09 — 16 pageviews2026-08-12 — 13 pageviews2026-08-15 — 15 pageviews2026-08-18 — 12 pageviews2026-08-21 — 12 pageviews2026-08-24 — 5 pageviews2026-08-27 — 12 pageviews2026-08-30 — 10 pageviews2026-09-02 — 12 pageviews2026-09-05 — 12 pageviews2026-09-08 — 11 pageviews2026-09-11 — 18 pageviews2026-09-14 — 15 pageviews2026-09-16 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
95.2%
earned "The Start of a Certain Summer"
43.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

2 supported languages: Japanese, English

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-11-03, latest 2024-06-20 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)13341%21

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

Player tags

CuteAnimeDramaCasualLGBTQ+RomanceAdventureText-BasedSingleplayerVisual Novel

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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