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Yukie: A Japanese Winter Fairy Tale

ImCyan · Vaka Game Magazine · 2017-07-14

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jul 14, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

This is a theatrical story game. Lead the hero Yukiji on a journey of vengeance, to the snowy mountain where Yukie resides. The story will proceed in a movie-like fashion.

Yukie: A Japanese Winter Fairy Tale is a 2017 Adventure and Indie game priced at $1.49, with a Mixed review sentiment (67% of 43 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
67%
positive of 43 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.49
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

A story of revenge. The demon Yukie has subjected the world to an Eternal Winter, feeding off the lives of humans for countless years. The First Man was drawn from the world of story by Yukie. They fell in love, but one day the man disappeared, and Yukie fell into madness, thriving in an eternal winter. Yukie's children all have blue eyes, proof of their lineage. It is a fragment of their mother's power of the snow. Those men who possessed power unknown to mankind were burdened with the fate of killing Yukie. ...But every one of them fell defeated before her. Our hero, Yukiji, is the you(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2019-03-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 5 of 9 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520172026Week of 2017-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$1.492017-07-152026-08-162017-07-15 — best price $2.692017-10-16 — best price $2.392017-10-26 — best price $2.392017-11-22 — best price $2.092017-12-21 — best price $2.392018-01-15 — best price $2.092018-02-15 — best price $2.092018-03-26 — best price $1.792018-05-14 — best price $2.092018-06-21 — best price $2.092018-07-16 — best price $2.092018-09-19 — best price $2.092018-10-22 — best price $2.092018-11-21 — best price $1.792018-12-21 — best price $1.792019-01-21 — best price $1.792019-02-04 — best price $1.792019-03-25 — best price $1.492019-04-30 — best price $1.492019-05-27 — best price $1.492019-06-25 — best price $1.492019-07-29 — best price $1.492023-12-21 — best price $1.492024-02-13 — best price $1.492024-03-14 — best price $1.492024-06-27 — best price $1.492024-09-08 — best price $1.492024-11-27 — best price $1.492024-12-20 — best price $1.492025-02-03 — best price $1.492025-03-13 — best price $1.492025-04-18 — best price $1.492025-06-26 — best price $1.492025-09-29 — best price $1.492025-12-18 — best price $1.492026-02-09 — best price $1.492026-03-19 — best price $1.492026-06-25 — best price $1.492026-08-16 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DJRPGSnowAnimeCasualSurrealCinematicLore-RichHand-drawnStory Rich

Census log

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

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