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VTube Studio cover art

VTube Studio

DenchiSoft · 2021-03-12

Steam

IndieAnimation & ModelingVideo Production

VTube Studio is all you'll ever need to become a Live2D VTuber, with innovative features such as pinning props to your model and many more still to come.

4,349
playing now
93%
positive of 7.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

4,349 players in-game as of 2026-09-16 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Thriving
  • · 4,349 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 944 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~118/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 27,261 Indie games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
24724720212026Week of 2021-03-01: 247 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

8.1k4.3k2026-09-15 22:00 — 7,533 players2026-09-15 23:00 — 7,633 players2026-09-16 00:00 — 8,055 players2026-09-16 01:00 — 4,349 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
11k353Mar 2021Aug 2026Mar 2021 — avg 353 · peak 491May 2021 — avg 627 · peak 1,053Jul 2021 — avg 1,039 · peak 1,765Sep 2021 — avg 1,400 · peak 2,404Nov 2021 — avg 1,755 · peak 3,244Jan 2022 — avg 2,160 · peak 4,109Mar 2022 — avg 2,673 · peak 4,988May 2022 — avg 2,992 · peak 5,639Jul 2022 — avg 3,508 · peak 6,518Sep 2022 — avg 4,036 · peak 7,772Nov 2022 — avg 4,427 · peak 9,412Jan 2023 — avg 4,739 · peak 8,815Mar 2023 — avg 5,007 · peak 9,563May 2023 — avg 5,391 · peak 10,586Jul 2023 — avg 5,976 · peak 11,568Sep 2023 — avg 6,178 · peak 12,091Nov 2023 — avg 6,347 · peak 12,427Jan 2024 — avg 6,831 · peak 13,148Mar 2024 — avg 7,354 · peak 13,874May 2024 — avg 7,694 · peak 14,862Jul 2024 — avg 8,405 · peak 16,653Sep 2024 — avg 8,377 · peak 16,443Nov 2024 — avg 8,556 · peak 16,650Jan 2025 — avg 9,322 · peak 18,605Mar 2025 — avg 9,621 · peak 20,014May 2025 — avg 10,545 · peak 20,928Jul 2025 — avg 10,477 · peak 19,996Sep 2025 — avg 10,060 · peak 19,766Nov 2025 — avg 10,526 · peak 19,325Jan 2026 — avg 10,936 · peak 20,212Mar 2026 — avg 10,633 · peak 19,800May 2026 — avg 10,608 · peak 20,079Jul 2026 — avg 10,761 · peak 20,058Aug 2026 — avg 11,129 · peak 20,910
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam Workshop3 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2021-03-12, latest 2023-04-24 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

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

Player tags

2D3DCuteNSFWAnimeFunnyIndieMatureSoftwareUtilities

Census log

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