The Song of Saya on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Bear witness to a love that will change the world, in this classic horror romance visual novel from acclaimed writer Urobuchi Gen.

The Song of Saya is a visual novel, psychological horror and gore game developed by Nitroplus and published by Kagura Games (Chinese Localization) and JAST.
Released on August 12th 2019 is available only on Windows in 3 languages: English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 6,952 reviews of which 6,328 were positive and 624 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Song of Saya into these genres:

Visual Novel Psychological Horror Gore Lovecraftian Horror Romance Anime Story Rich Dark Great Soundtrack Multiple Endings Atmospheric Adventure Cult Classic Cute Simulation Singleplayer Classic

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: 1 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 128MB VRAM
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 600 MB available space

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March 2025

A wholesome story about a guy planning ski-trips with his classmates. Jokes aside, as everyone else already mentioned, this game can be quite disturbing and gory at times, but under all that depravity there's something beautiful to be found. Also if you like good music get this. Recommended for fans of Fate/Zero or Urobuchis works in general.

Feb. 2025

--100% recommend the STEAM VERSION only + Great story, was really interesting + Great horror, but it's a VS so the horror is very much in imagining the way it all must feel for the characters + A bit over the top gory(flesh walls and stuff kinda make me laugh), and a bit bizarre at first + This version has no child rape or pedophilia, unlike the patched/original version, which is why it was changed for Steam probably. + Loved the music and ambiance of the game, huge plus for sound effects too - The pictures/frames I wish were polished more as on the characters, while the characters are great I personally would prefer images with a lot less sketching left in the end result, this was better and worse in didferent images so I think they prob decided to put more effort into certain sprites. Please do not read more from here on out as this is gross.¨ - Patch includes: Rape of a minor(graphically explicit), rape of a lobotomised woman, with minor engaging in the rape with the MC. MC on minor graphically explicit sex scenes) - As I said the patched is rancid, like I installed it as I figured I should have a good comparison since some people whined so much about it being separated, but I'm gonna be completely honest, the game is narrative wise 150% better without the scenes because it's honestly the story that matters, you already understand that he has abandoned all his morals and he is clearly OK with that despite that it worries him that Saya is clearly a minor. Now this is the part in most Japanese loli where it gets a bit creative right, so technically she is not HUMAN so there will be some arguments that she is not a minor or an adult, but I think we should not pretend or downright ignore the constant reinforcing the narrative drives of Saya, regardless of her other form, is presented as a pre-pubescent girl, and just fyi the MC is in his 20s which makes it even more cringe pedophilia fanservice. You also get to spare yourself of this completely useless rape scene of his previous friend where his loli gf lobotomises the woman to make her into the MCs sex slave. There was no narrative or character development here, except for making you hate the MC and Saya more. The game confirms her physical age in graphic sexual narrative where other characters comments on her body and her look.

Jan. 2025

A masterpiece First visual novel I ever played and it was masterpiece 10/10 Story 10/10 Atmosphere 10/10 Characters 10/10 Soundtrack 11/10 really awesome MUST BUY

Oct. 2024

disgustingly and revoltingly beautiful game. personally struck a chord with me as a schizophrenic adult, and i'm not one to write reviews. left me feeling pensive and unhinged. 4/5

Oct. 2024

i think most of the successful horror in this vn comes from the story told which was extremely captivating! every aspect of saya and fuminori's relationship is highly questionable and very irking. i think the game falls short in the fetishy h scenes. it makes me take the story less seriously. despite that, a really fascinating and twisted love story is told in this. i would recommend to anyone who knows what they're getting into with this one.

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12.49€

8.8

6,328

624

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Developer

Nitroplus

Publisher

Kagura Games (Chinese Localization), JAST

Release 12 Aug 2019

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