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Kyoto Anomaly
You find yourself trapped in the endless maze of Kyoto's backstreets, trying to reach the temple of Hōkan-ji before the main tourist rush. Inspect the street for anomalies, choose the right path, and reach your destination... or be trapped forever.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“One of the best anomalies' games we played. Got everything in 2h30, really enjoyed it!”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Small game, but very interesting.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2025-06 via SteamCharts; 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 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Hotfix - 2025.10.11
Resolved a bug that made it so the Fog Entity anomaly and Chasing Oni anomaly weren't triggered correctly. Also addressed the recent Unity vulnerability .
Hotfix - 2025.08.11
A small hotfix to address the inability to unlock Steam Achievements. These should now correctly get unlocked when performed. You might have to redo some of them to trigger the achievement.
Compendium update - 2025.07.23
Changelog The compendium now has the option to reset all your compendium progress, increasing replayability.
Hotfix - 2025.06.05
Hey everyone! It's been great to see the reception of Kyoto Anomaly, and whilst the experience has been mainly bugfree, there were a few QoL issues that popped up that we wanted to address. Should you
Hotfix - 2025.05.29
A small hotfix so that the "Anomaly Tourist" now includes a specific anomaly in it's checks that all anomalies have been seen. You should no longer receive the achievement with one anomaly still locke
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Psychological Horror · Simulation · Walking Simulator · Horror · Hidden Object · Exploration · Realistic · Mystery · Atmospheric · Thriller · Immersive Sim · Choices Matter (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Playable without Timed Input · DualSense Controller Support |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Dutch, Japanese * , Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish, Thai * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 13 |
| Official site | https://www.bitemegames.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 950 Storage: 4 GB available space