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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.

Released Aug 15, 2024 Developer Four Leaf Studios Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux Visual NovelRomanceDating SimMultiple EndingsAnime
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 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.

97.6%positive6,144 reviews

What reviewers agree on

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Counted across 102 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 97.6% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13

Recommended · 42 found this helpful

“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
Recommended · 27 found this helpful

“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
Recommended · 29 found this helpful

“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 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.

428all-time peak
0 250 500 2025 2026 235 avg · Aug 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.

21achievements
9.5%median completion
3.3%rarest: Bundle of Choices
70.0% of players 20.0% of players 14.8% of players 14.2% of players 13.7% of players 13.2% of players 12.6% of players 12.0% of players 10.8% of players 10.7% of players 9.5% of players 8.6% of players 8.0% of players 8.0% of players 7.2% of players 7.1% of players 7.0% of players 6.6% of players 6.4% of players 4.0% of players 3.3% of players 70.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
70.0%Bundle of Hisao — Finish the prologue
20.0%Is Carnival! — Finish Emi's Act 1
14.8%Movement — Finish Hanako's Act 1
Rarest badges of honor
3.3%Bundle of Choices — Hidden achievement
4.0%Congratulations! — Hidden achievement
6.4%The World Only You Can See — Reach Rin's neutral ending

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.

Jan 17, 2026
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

Apr 15, 2025
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

Aug 31, 2024
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

Aug 24, 2024
♡ 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.

Aug 21, 2024
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

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.

GenresCasual, Indie, Free To Play
Player tagsVisual Novel · Romance · Dating Sim · Multiple Endings · Anime · Choices Matter · Emotional · Text-Based · 2D · Cute · Story Rich · Psychological (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud
LanguagesEnglish, French, Japanese, Spanish - Latin America, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
ControllerFull support
Achievements21
Official sitehttps://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