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Goodbye Volcano High
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “emotionally rich dinosaur coming-of-age” (42 of 75 reviews) and “powerful indie-rock soundtrack” (27); the most common complaint is “rushed, shallow emotional writing” (12). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
42 of the 75 reviews raise this.
27 of the 75 reviews raise this.
20 of the 75 reviews raise this.
14 of the 75 reviews raise this.
4 of the 75 reviews raise this.
“I would say if you look past the tons of LGBT+ themes, the story is actually pretty interesting. I thought the music matching was a little too easy but other than that it was pretty good. Will I play it again is the…”
“When I first saw this game, I thought it would be a nice little teen drama with some rhythm games. What I got was a story that had me tears by the end. While Goodbye Volcano High feels less like a game and more like a…”
“I held off a while on this game and finally picked it up on a sale, and I'm glad I gave this game a shot. I knew immediately it was right up my alley as I enjoy narrative games with lots of dialogue choices. Rhythm…”
12 of the 75 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Coming in from Cavemanon, I actually had an open mind. I wanted this to be good, for what they did with the characters in a certain game that I cannot say because this review would probably be taken down. 4chan is what…”
10 of the 75 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“I would say if you look past the tons of LGBT+ themes, the story is actually pretty interesting. I thought the music matching was a little too easy but other than that it was pretty good. Will I play it again is the…”
8 of the 75 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
3 of the 75 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“the story is amazing. characters are so well thought out they might as well be real people. I connected with it a lot. the gameing aspect is light but its enough to keep it interactive. my only qualm was I did run into…”
Counted across 75 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 89.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“If you watched the video and thought this super colorful LGBT visual novel with some guitar hero minigames was for you, then you don't need any convincing, it's for you. If you took one look at the designs and thought it was incredibly cringe, it is NOT for you. The characters…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“I'm such a sap for coming of age stories with cringe teens. I like that it frequently locks you out of choices or gives you only undesirable reactions to choose from, makes the main character feel like more of a real person than an in-game avatar for the player. I think if one…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Seeing people grow is always wholesome. Even if neither people nor the story is real.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-24.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Story Rich · LGBTQ+ · Visual Novel · Singleplayer · Hand-drawn · Cinematic · Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter · Music · Choose Your Own Adventure · Dinosaurs · 2D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 37 |
| Official site | https://www.goodbyevolcanohigh.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 SP1 Processor: Intel Core i5 3.0GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB VRAM DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 5 GB available space