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Players navigate branching narrative scenarios in LoveChoice, a title that focuses on interactive relationship choices. Since its 2021 launch, the game has accumulated 2,268 reviews on Steam. The community response remains strong, with a 90% positive rating indicating a very positive reception for this self-published project.
Overview
LoveChoice is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Akaba Studio and published by Akaba Studio. On Steam it has gathered 36,463 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $2. The pairing of developer Akaba Studio with publisher Akaba Studio is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.4 million to 3.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, LoveChoice can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
36,463
Positive
92%
Steam appid
939400
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
16
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.01.4M to 3.3M
units (median: 2.4M)
≈ $1.6M to $3.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$2 | -20 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 65 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for LoveChoice at roughly 1.4 million to 3.3 million copies, with a median around 2.4 million, derived from its 36,463 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.7M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
55 observed days · window low $1.59Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.59 to $1.99. The tracked-window low was $1.59 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
RomanceDating SimChoices MatterStory RichVisual NovelMultiple EndingsGreat SoundtrackCuteBeautifulSimulationCasualIndieRPGAdventureInteractive FictionPuzzle2DEarly AccessAnimeStylized
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has LoveChoice sold?
- indielist estimates LoveChoice has sold between 1,422,057 and 3,318,133 units (median 2,370,095), derived from its 36,463 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed LoveChoice?
- LoveChoice was developed by Akaba Studio and published by Akaba Studio.
- Who published LoveChoice?
- LoveChoice was published by Akaba Studio, developed by Akaba Studio. See Akaba Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was LoveChoice released?
- LoveChoice was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does LoveChoice have on Steam?
- LoveChoice has 36,463 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is LoveChoice worth playing?
- Steam players rate LoveChoice 92% positive across 36,463 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like LoveChoice can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as OneShot, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, OneShot: World Machine Edition, To the Moon, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Akaba Studio's other releases and Akaba Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where LoveChoice sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same LoveChoice page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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Shared tags: Puzzle, Indie, Story Rich
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- G
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Shared tags: Puzzle, Indie, Beautiful
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