Katawa Shoujo
BANGER · Short indie · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 6,376
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Short indie
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8h
- To 100%
- 37h 4.6x the story
- Finish
- 14% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 21
Players and genre
- Online
- 77 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
70% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Press Any Button ($1.99, scores 77) and Heads Will Roll: Reforged ($24.99, scores 48) both come in lower.
It is still busy. 77 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 7, 02:53 UTC, across 42 days of weekly checks.
More about Katawa Shoujo
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8-hour game, that is a lot of evenings the rest never spend.
The main story runs 8 hours. Doing everything runs 37, 4.6 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Intel GMA or HD, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Katawa Shoujo scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3068300/katawa-shoujoReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.