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Yi and the Thousand Moons cover art

Yi and the Thousand Moons

David Su · 2017-11-24

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 24, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 24, 2017 (Mac)

Yi and the Thousand Moons is a short video game musical written and developed by David Su. Through the course of several original interactive songs, featuring a full cast and live band, the game weaves a story of the archer Yi's journey to save her village.

82%
positive of 205 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 24,344 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.1k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 205 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2019-11-26) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820172026Week of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$0.742017-11-252022-11-292017-11-25 — best price $4.992018-01-22 — best price $3.342018-01-29 — best price $4.992018-02-15 — best price $3.742018-02-19 — best price $4.992018-04-30 — best price $3.342018-05-07 — best price $4.992018-06-22 — best price $2.492018-07-05 — best price $4.992018-10-29 — best price $1.242018-11-01 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $2.492018-11-27 — best price $4.992018-12-05 — best price $2.492018-12-19 — best price $4.992018-12-21 — best price $0.992019-01-04 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $1.242019-02-11 — best price $4.992019-02-13 — best price $3.992019-02-27 — best price $4.992019-04-24 — best price $3.292019-05-08 — best price $4.992019-05-10 — best price $2.992019-06-26 — best price $0.982019-07-09 — best price $2.992019-07-10 — best price $1.492019-07-24 — best price $2.992019-10-04 — best price $1.972019-10-18 — best price $2.992019-10-28 — best price $0.982019-11-01 — best price $2.992019-11-26 — best price $0.742019-12-03 — best price $2.992019-12-19 — best price $0.742020-01-02 — best price $2.992021-02-14 — best price $2.332021-02-15 — best price $2.992022-11-23 — best price $1.492022-11-29 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
92.3%
earned "Moons and Junes and Ferris Wheels"
84.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-12-01 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)27294%7

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

Player tags

3DIndieMusicCasualRelaxingAdventureEmotionalStory RichAtmosphericExperimental

Census log

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

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