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WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT

TYPE-MOON · Aniplex Inc. · 2023-12-14

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Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 08, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Dec 07, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 13, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A tale told with vivid colors and rich sound in a classic TYPE-MOON visual novel.

224
playing now
98%
positive of 8.5k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
98/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$39.99
steam price (US)

224 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Witch on the Holy Night is a Japanese visual novel developed and published by Type-Moon. It was first released for Windows on April 12, 2012, in Japan. An enhanced remastered version with voice acting and updated graphics was released by Aniplex worldwide for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on December 8, 2022, and was released for Windows via Steam on December 14, 2023. The game is often regarded as a kinetic novel: the user experiences a linear plotline with little variation and few player choices. The game is a prequel to Tsukihime and explores the backstory of Shiki Tohno's master Aoko Aozaki.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 224 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,290 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~161/week).
  • · Review velocity up 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 169k–380k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 8,451 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $19.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.2k1.2k20232026Week of 2023-12-01: 1,181 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 455 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 261 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 260 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 252 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 391 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 272 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 221 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

381612026-08-11 23:00 — 78 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 316 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 263 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 86 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 381 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 233 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 107 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 380 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 186 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 78 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 353 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 166 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 88 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 224 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 132 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 93 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 226 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 148 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 92 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 156 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 119 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 92 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 173 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 117 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 82 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 143 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 61 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 271 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 224 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$19.992023-12-142026-08-142023-12-14 — best price $35.992024-02-09 — best price $31.992024-03-14 — best price $31.992024-04-25 — best price $31.992024-06-27 — best price $29.992024-08-31 — best price $29.992024-11-27 — best price $27.992024-12-19 — best price $27.992025-01-18 — best price $27.992025-03-03 — best price $25.992025-03-13 — best price $25.992025-04-10 — best price $25.992025-06-12 — best price $25.992025-08-06 — best price $25.992025-09-29 — best price $23.992025-10-27 — best price $23.992025-12-18 — best price $23.992026-02-14 — best price $23.992026-03-25 — best price $23.992026-03-30 — best price $23.992026-05-17 — best price $23.992026-06-25 — best price $19.992026-07-31 — best price $19.992026-08-14 — best price $39.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2.7k1682026-05-30 — 293 pageviews2026-06-02 — 244 pageviews2026-06-05 — 272 pageviews2026-06-08 — 284 pageviews2026-06-11 — 210 pageviews2026-06-14 — 187 pageviews2026-06-17 — 203 pageviews2026-06-20 — 168 pageviews2026-06-23 — 184 pageviews2026-06-26 — 340 pageviews2026-06-29 — 262 pageviews2026-07-02 — 242 pageviews2026-07-05 — 284 pageviews2026-07-08 — 2,592 pageviews2026-07-11 — 661 pageviews2026-07-14 — 470 pageviews2026-07-17 — 414 pageviews2026-07-20 — 515 pageviews2026-07-23 — 350 pageviews2026-07-26 — 320 pageviews2026-07-29 — 345 pageviews2026-08-01 — 796 pageviews2026-08-04 — 362 pageviews2026-08-07 — 357 pageviews2026-08-10 — 313 pageviews2026-08-13 — 291 pageviews2026-08-16 — 276 pageviews2026-08-19 — 271 pageviews2026-08-22 — 342 pageviews2026-08-25 — 284 pageviews2026-08-27 — 287 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-28 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 06:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
68.6%
earned "It Doesn't Have to Be Normal"
32.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)1,16777%27
Steam (Steam)1,10835%27
Switch (Nintendo)1090%0
Switch (Nintendo)800%0

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

Player tags

2DAnimeDramaMagicNudityFantasyAdventureEmotionalStory RichSingleplayer

Census log

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

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