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Eliza
Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“The unsettling part isn't that AI can imitate humans. It's that humans can become its mouthpiece.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Eliza really surprised me. I didn’t expect a game from 2019 to feel this relevant, but it actually hits very close to what we’re dealing with now, with AI, with mental health, with ethical choices. This game found me at the right time, because it talks about things I’m…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“[h1]Generative[/h1] TL;DR: A poignant visual novel that explores what drives us individually and as a species, and what it is to find meaning in a world of suffering and chaos.[hr][/hr]As the above blurb should have made explicit, this visual novel deals with some heavy…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
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Latest official news
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Eliza is now available in Portuguese and Japanese!
Eliza agora está disponível em Português! 『Eliza』は日本語に対応しています。 Eliza is now available in Portuguese and Japanese! Special thanks to the translators who created these translations: Japanese: Shin Imamu
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Eliza is now available in Italian and Chinese!
Eliza is now available in Italian and Chinese! Special thanks to the YakYak translators who created these translations: Italian: Daniela Delbarba, Jonathan Antonioli, Emanuele Siena, Marco Ramazzotti,
UPDATE: Fixing the crash handler
Today's update fixes our crash handler to point to a new URL. Nothing else should have changed.
Eliza is now available in French and Spanish!
Eliza est désormais disponible en français! ¡Eliza ya está disponible en español! Eliza is now available in French and Spanish! Special thanks to the YakYak translators who created these translations:
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Female Protagonist · Visual Novel · Emotional · Psychological · Indie · Atmospheric · Story Rich · Dystopian · Singleplayer · Beautiful · Great Soundtrack · Choices Matter (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Hungarian, Russian, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 1 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.zachtronics.com/eliza |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 Processor: 2.0 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 1366 x 768 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 1 GB available space