Shades of Sakura on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Shades of Sakura is a casual physics-based puzzle game. Challenge yourself to get 10 animated scenes with Live2D. Go on a fascinating journey through ancient Japan and our Samurai girls. Connect the balls by drawing lines to win!

Shades of Sakura is a dating sim game developed and published by BanzaiProject.
Released on July 22nd 2021 is available only on Windows in 29 languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

It has received 549 reviews of which 387 were positive and 162 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 0.62€ on Steam with a 61% discount.


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Windows
  • OS: WIN8/WIN10
  • Processor: 1.2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible graphics card
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

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Dec. 2024
Even though Shades of Sakura is marketed as some cheap sexy game, there's actually much more to it. I really enjoyed the dialogues. All the characters are very polite and thoughtful. There's a lot of food for thought and sometimes witty humor. Here are some of my favorite lines from just the first part of the game: "I'm always prepared to attack. What I'm not prepared for is the life of a peasant or someone's wife." "After you think about it, decide. And after you do so, don't think about it." "It's easy to let go of all the negativity of previous days and reconnect with being. The world as its creator intended it to be. Quiet and peaceful." "You quote the classics, and yet you don't understand human feelings." "The sea is big. because it doesn't neglect small rivers." The gameplay was pleasant with its easy physics puzzles where you can draw whatever you feel like. The puzzles seem to be related to the story, but this is not very obvious. The music is very chill as well. definitely buying the soundtrack during the next sale.
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Dec. 2024
Shades of Sakura is a puzzle game all about using the power of physics and drawing to make two yin yang balls meet. The game has 40 levels, most of them having some story/visual novel elements in between them. To beat a level, you have to move one or both of the yin yang balls by creating distinct shapes with your mouse, as if you were drawing. The game isn't all too hard but if you do struggle with a level or just want to see the animated scenes, there is a skip button. Otherwise, the game isn't bad at all. Though simple, it was rather relaxing and satisfying to figure out all the puzzles!
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Nov. 2024
+++ easy, fast & cheap 100 % Steam Achievements +++ 5 Trading Cards Set = Perfect Good for Achievements Hunters, Card & Games Collectors + Indie Genre Fans https://store.steampowered.com/app/1678140/Shades_of_Sakura/
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June 2024
The only reason to play this is because it’s easy to 100 %, in less than 30 min. If you want the card drops its simply not interesting enough to play it – let it run in the background.
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June 2024
Shades of Sakura is a puzzle game all about using the power of physics and drawing to make two yin yang balls meet. The game has 40 levels, most of them having some story/visual novel elements in between them. To beat a level, you have to move one or both of the yin yang balls by creating distinct shapes with your mouse, as if you were drawing. The game isn't all too hard but if you do struggle with a level or just want to see the animated scenes, there is a skip button. Otherwise, the game isn't bad at all. Though simple, it was rather relaxing and satisfying to figure out all the puzzles!
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Shades of Sakura
6.7
387
162
Online players
0
Developer
BanzaiProject
Publisher
BanzaiProject
Release 22 Jul 2021
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