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YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world

MAGES. Inc. · Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. · 2019-10-01

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Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Oct 01, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 01, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 16, 2017 (PlayStation Vita), Oct 04, 2019 (PlayStation 4)

Takuya Arima receives a package from his supposedly deceased father. It contains the mysterious Reflector Device which allows the user to travel between parallel worlds. Takuya must unearth the mystery of his father's legacy to prevent a calamity threatening to envelop reality itself.

79%
positive of 390 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
4.57★
PlayStation Store rating (394 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$7.49
steam price (US)
Yu-no: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World is a 1996 visual novel adventure game developed and published by ELF Corporation. It was originally released as an eroge for the NEC PC-98 Japanese home computer and later ported to the Sega Saturn and Microsoft Windows platforms without the sexual content. The story follows the protagonist travelling between parallel worlds to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance. The game uses concepts from science fiction, physics, mathematics, philosophy, history and religion to construct its fictional universe. The "Auto Diverge Mapping System" (A.D.M.S.) that displays the branching parallel worlds and storylines as a tree helps the player navigate the game world.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 40 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 26,262 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.8k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 390 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$49.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $49.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days · $42.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$49.99$7.492019-12-112026-10-082019-12-11 — best price $49.992020-03-03 — best price $19.992020-05-06 — best price $49.992020-10-01 — best price $24.992020-11-16 — best price $49.992021-04-29 — best price $19.992021-07-08 — best price $49.992021-11-24 — best price $14.992022-01-05 — best price $49.992022-04-28 — best price $14.992022-07-07 — best price $49.992022-11-22 — best price $14.992023-01-05 — best price $49.992023-03-16 — best price $14.992023-05-08 — best price $49.992023-08-07 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $49.992024-03-07 — best price $14.992024-05-06 — best price $49.992024-10-15 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $49.992025-01-16 — best price $9.992025-03-10 — best price $49.992025-04-25 — best price $9.992025-06-15 — best price $49.992025-08-25 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $49.992025-12-18 — best price $9.992026-02-06 — best price $49.992026-04-21 — best price $7.492026-06-11 — best price $49.992026-09-04 — best price $7.492026-10-08 — best price $49.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

41
achievements tracked
42.5%
earned "Obtainer of the Reflector Device"
23.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)50460%41
Steam (Steam)22548%41
Switch (Nintendo)190%0
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

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

Player tags

AnimeDramaMatureNuditySci-fiMysteryRomanceAdventureStory RichTime Travel

Census log

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

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