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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. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“9/10 I'm not typically interested in the visual novel genre, finding that there's just not enough interactivity to hold my attention. However, when I saw that Eliza was concerned with counseling (my profession) and was developed by Zachtronics (the high-quality developer that…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“This game proves that the "Zach-like" part of Zachtronics' games are not "just" the puzzles and quickly ramping complexity / difficulty. I feel like this game is the result of refining every part of the "meta" game found within recent Zachtronics releases. Take away the puzzles…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Mental wellbeing for the masses. Eliza is a visual novel about mental health issues and AI, developed by Zachtronics. You play as Evelyn, a former programmer who went off the grid for several years after a traumatic experience. She worked on a project called Eliza, which has now…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
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Achievement stats
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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
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| 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 |
| 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