Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms
Worth it · Short indie · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 17.7h 44.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 314 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
A girl who cannot fall in love. A boy who has no interest in love. If they were to fall in love with each other, how would the world change? From Palette, developers of "Mashiro Iro Symphony", comes the romantic school comedy, "Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms."
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1280 x 720 Full Color capable Graphics Card, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 65 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Good Time Garden (free, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Plug & Play ($3.99, scores 35).
More about Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms
The main story runs 17.7 hours. Doing everything runs 44, 2.5 times as long.
Players
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 07:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game changed my life, absolute peak, life changing, everyone should play this at least once in his life. 10/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms, developed by PALETTE and published internationally by Sekai Project, is a romantic slice-of-life visual novel that captures the fleeting warmth, awkwardness, and emotional uncertainty of young love. Set against a soft springtime backdrop filled with cherry blossoms and schoolyard routines, the game embraces familiar genre tropes while grounding them in...
I thought this game gonna be good after I saw the art style, but after I spent 35 hours finishing all routes I cannot say that I want to recommend this Visual Novel despite its peak illustration Why? -The story is flat, no depth to explore for the MC, and some characters, common route is boring and not have anything with main routes so I felt like "Why the fk I need to read common route" -Plain MC, it seems like the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/691150/saku-saku-love-blooms-with-the-cherry-blossomsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.