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Volcano Princess

养蛋人 Egg Hatcher · 2023-04-20

SteamPlayStation Store

CasualIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 24, 2025 (Xbox One), Jun 24, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), Jul 30, 2026 (PlayStation 5), Jul 30, 2026 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 30, 2026 (iOS), Jul 30, 2026 (Android)

Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!

141
playing now
98%
positive of 49k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
5h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$10.99
steam price (US)

141 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Volcano Princess is a social simulation game, developed by the Chinese studio Egg Catcher and published by the Chinese publisher Gamera Games, where players play the role of the single father to a young girl. It was released for Microsoft Windows on April 21, 2023. By July 2023, it had sold over 600,000 copies.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 141 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,746 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~343/week).
  • · Review velocity down 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 9,503 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 980k–2.2M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 48,987 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.14 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $10.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7.4k7.4k20232026Week of 2023-04-01: 7,355 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 271 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4,811 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 134 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3,068 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3,369 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1,048 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1,091 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,068 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3,633 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 845 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 844 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1,250 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,322 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 800 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 519 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 985 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,015 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 755 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 452 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 586 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 896 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 794 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 556 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 930 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 454 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 413 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 590 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 853 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 694 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 387 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 493 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 775 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 489 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 367 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 304 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 326 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 262 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 295 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 385 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 271 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

9171272026-08-06 21:00 — 166 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 555 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 917 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 166 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 584 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 856 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 170 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 612 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 859 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 161 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 476 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 835 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 128 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 490 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 757 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 127 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 389 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 723 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 170 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 341 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 466 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 165 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 245 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 538 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 293 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 208 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 456 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 350 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 141 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$7.142023-02-072026-08-052023-02-07 — best price $99.992023-04-27 — best price $10.992023-11-16 — best price $9.342024-01-04 — best price $10.992024-03-14 — best price $8.792024-04-19 — best price $8.792024-04-25 — best price $10.992024-05-25 — best price $10.992024-06-08 — best price $10.992024-07-11 — best price $10.992024-07-26 — best price $8.792024-08-01 — best price $8.652024-08-07 — best price $10.992024-08-26 — best price $8.792024-09-14 — best price $10.992024-09-29 — best price $8.792024-10-08 — best price $10.992024-10-17 — best price $10.992024-11-20 — best price $10.992024-12-20 — best price $8.242025-02-01 — best price $10.992025-03-04 — best price $8.652025-03-20 — best price $10.992025-05-16 — best price $8.242025-06-24 — best price $10.992025-08-23 — best price $10.992025-10-06 — best price $10.992025-12-18 — best price $7.472026-02-24 — best price $10.992026-04-20 — best price $7.142026-06-11 — best price $10.992026-07-22 — best price $7.142026-08-05 — best price $10.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

572172026-05-30 — 26 pageviews2026-06-02 — 20 pageviews2026-06-05 — 30 pageviews2026-06-08 — 24 pageviews2026-06-11 — 29 pageviews2026-06-14 — 32 pageviews2026-06-17 — 40 pageviews2026-06-20 — 33 pageviews2026-06-23 — 58 pageviews2026-06-26 — 51 pageviews2026-06-29 — 31 pageviews2026-07-02 — 21 pageviews2026-07-05 — 30 pageviews2026-07-08 — 27 pageviews2026-07-11 — 23 pageviews2026-07-14 — 18 pageviews2026-07-17 — 126 pageviews2026-07-20 — 56 pageviews2026-07-23 — 57 pageviews2026-07-26 — 47 pageviews2026-07-29 — 64 pageviews2026-08-01 — 91 pageviews2026-08-04 — 52 pageviews2026-08-07 — 38 pageviews2026-08-10 — 50 pageviews2026-08-13 — 27 pageviews2026-08-16 — 38 pageviews2026-08-19 — 26 pageviews2026-08-22 — 20 pageviews2026-08-25 — 18 pageviews2026-08-27 — 23 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

602026-08-28 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 6 viewers2026-08-28 15:34 — 4 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-29 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-29 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 22:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-30 00:34 — 5 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
96.6%
earned "Happy Spring! "
61.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,0643%234
Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)2,9841%100
PS5 (PlayStation)3714%236
Switch (Nintendo)330%0

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGCuteAnimeIndieLife SimStrategyDating SimSimulationStory RichSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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