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Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem

Seize the day

Released Nov 30, 2015 Developer Moonlit Works Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux Free to PlayAnimeVisual NovelShortSingleplayer
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-08-12)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.

89.1%positive8,561 reviews
Recommended · 200 found this helpful

“Six minutes. That's how long it took me to finish the game...six whole minutes. During that time, I noted the lack of backgrounds, the annoyingly repetitive music, and the simplistic (if slightly cute) character design. And then....that ending. That ending that came from out of…”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Recommended · 130 found this helpful

“** Suggestion: don't read reviews for this game ** Why not? Because this game is very, very short and it is almost impossible to explain why you should play it without spoiling it. It's good, it's free, it's only about 10-15min long. Just go play it and you'll understand. Also,…”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Recommended · 90 found this helpful

“Started game. She shows up. We went to mall. I went to computer store and bougt hard drive. 10/10 developer knows who plays this game.”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.

90all-time peak
0 25 50 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 No data collected for this period 24 avg · Dec 2015

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-26.

2achievements
23.5%median completion
23.5%rarest: We still don't know
68.2% of players 23.5% of players 68.2% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
68.2%What are you doing with your life? — Hidden achievement
23.5%We still don't know — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
23.5%We still don't know — Hidden achievement
68.2%What are you doing with your life? — Hidden achievement

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

Freecurrent · sampled 2026-08-12 07:53 UTC
Freelowest since tracking began2026-07-11

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Oct 17, 2023
Layover Lovers released!

Greetings, moonlings! Our past couple of years have been filled with slumps and silence but we're getting back into working on projects again. It's taken a while but Layover Lovers is finally released

Sep 16, 2020
Without Romance released!

Hello! I hope you're doing well. If you didn't know, Moonlit Works participated in the Summer Novel Festival 2020 and our entry, Without Romance, is now out on Steam. I hope you like it! https://store

Dec 29, 2019
Asset Update

What in the moon is this?! We just wanted to let everyone know that we have updated this little project with new better assets! We are very proud with how it turned out, despite the rather unambitious

May 28, 2016
Sequel Is Greenlit!

Carpe Diem: Reboot just got greenlit earlier! Huge thanks to everyone who voted it up. The kickstarter campaign is really close to its goal with 4 days to go! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eyzi

May 28, 2016
Sequel Is Greenlit!

Carpe Diem: Reboot just got greenlit earlier! Huge thanks to everyone who voted it up. The kickstarter campaign is really close to its goal with 4 days to go! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eyzi

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.

GenresCasual, Indie, Free To Play
Player tagsFree to Play · Anime · Visual Novel · Short · Singleplayer · Indie · Cute · Dating Sim · Casual · Sexual Content · Nudity · 2D (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Swedish, Russian, Korean, Thai
Achievements2
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP SP1 Processor: Pentium 4 1.7 GHz Memory: 128 MB RAM Graphics: Intel integrated chipset Storage: 150 MB available space