Home / Games / Katawa Shoujo
Katawa Shoujo
Katawa Shoujo is a romantic visual novel set in the fictional Japanese Yamaku High School for disabled children. Hisao's congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Never thought a game made by 4chan about meeting and romancing disabled girls would genuinely change my viewpoint on life so much. You would expect it to be full on fetish content, knowing the game's origins, yet it's far from it. Every single girl is written to be a real,…”
— a player, Steam review · 40 hrs played“Peak. Complete and utter absolute peak. When a mountain climber reaches the top of the mountain, they yell "Katawa Shoujo" so that everybody knows they're at the peak. The game was made by a whole bunch of 4channers, purely just for the love of the game. They distributed this…”
— a player, Steam review · 89 hrs played“Extra side note -> This game geniually made me shed a tear. And I will definitely remember this game, because it was one amazing emotional ride. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay…”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:26 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
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.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Additional Language Support Added + Happy 14 Year Anniversary KS !
Hello Everybody!! Popping in to announce that Katawa Shoujo has added support for the following languages -Russian (Novellae Subs)German (Hikari 光)Korean (Team KS)Brazilian Portuguese (VNX+)Polish (Po
Katawa Shoujo Original Soundtrack now available on Steam!
Hi Everybody!! We're pleased to announce that the Katawa Shoujo original soundtrack is now available for free via Steam below!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3171120/Katawa_Shoujo_Enigmatic_Box_o
Steamdeck Verified + Bugs
We're pleased to announce that Katawa Shoujo is now officially Steam Deck Verified! Thank you very much to Valve for their review and approval. This verifies that Katawa Shoujo gives a good experience
♡ Thank you everybody for 1000 reviews ♡!
Thank you everybody for helping Katawa Shoujo reach 1000 reviews on Steam! It means so much that so many people care about KS after all these years.
Katawa Shoujo 1.3.1c - Achievements and Unofficial Language Support
We have pushed an update to resolve an issue with achievements not unlocking properly in some circumstances, as well as a full screen cursor bug. There is also now support for unofficial languages pat
Games like Katawa Shoujo
From our knowledge graph — ranked by shared traits, not a black box. Each card says why it's here.
Crystalline
94.2% · 1,194 reviews
shares Dating Sim, Narration, Romance, Choose Your Own Adventure
ACE Academy
95.1% · 1,289 reviews
shares Dating Sim, Narration, Romance, Choose Your Own Adventure
Emily is Away <3
91.4% · 5,247 reviews
shares Dating Sim, Romance, Emotional, Choose Your Own Adventure
Growing Up
87.3% · 2,403 reviews
shares Dating Sim, Emotional, Choose Your Own Adventure, Hand Drawn
Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate
99.1% · 1,066 reviews
shares Dating Sim, Romance, Text Based, Emotional
I Wani Hug that Gator!
98.0% · 3,709 reviews
shares Dating Sim, Romance, Text Based, Choose Your Own Adventure
Wednesdays
96.8% · 819 reviews
shares Psychological, Narration, Text Based, Emotional
Angel Wings
90.5% · 518 reviews
shares Dating Sim, Romance, Emotional, Choose Your Own Adventure
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Visual Novel · Romance · Dating Sim · Multiple Endings · Anime · Choices Matter · Emotional · Text-Based · 2D · Cute · Story Rich · Psychological (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, Japanese, Spanish - Latin America, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 21 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.katawa-shoujo.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP SP3 Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.8Ghz Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: Intel GMA or HD Storage: 600 MB available space