Imagine you're a 12 year old, suddenly in charge of the guard shed at the castle gate, where you decide if elves, goblins and 100+ other characters should be admitted. It's a wonderful combination of deduction, narrative and puzzle games.
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Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.43/day in the week to Aug 11 → 1/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, GOG, Epic, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 1.3Kreviews | 94% | — | $460.8K |
| $19.99 | 250ratings | 88% | — | not modelled | |
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 97 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Saw this in youtube and I actually like the gameplay and artstyle. Its has good jokes and Lil is a vibe. Hahah I love her sass. Story is good, characters are good. I love them. It has good humor and story aftermaths based on your decision. Story saves are auto so, you really can't control where to stop. There are many branching outcomes to your decisions, which actually has an effect on the ending. Good. Its 9/10.
Fantasy version of Papers Please but with more story. I really liked it.
好玩，下班后接着上班
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| $460.8K | 661 | 72% | $24.99 | |
| $460.8K | 875 | 99% | $12.99 | |
| $460.6K | 2.3K | 74% | $9.99 | |
| $460.4K | 652 | 69% | $19.99 | |
| $460.3K | 3.4K | 90% | $7.99 | |
| $460.2K | 1.7K | 98% | $14.99 |
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| Game | Estimated lifetime revenue | Reviews | Review score | Price |
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| $673 | 12 | 75% | $4.99 | |
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| $12.3K | 73 | 92% | $9.99 | |
| $5.2K | 61 | 95% | $4.99 | |
| — | 0 | — | — | |
| $4.4M | 9.1K | 91% | $24.99 |
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, German, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America*languages with full audio support
| $19.99 |
| 62ratings |
| 96% |
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| not modelled |
| $7.99−60% | 33ratings | 80% | — | not modelled |
| $19.99 | — | 84%* | — | not modelled |
| $4.99−75% | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 98 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
El juego es divertidisimo, todo lo que elijas queda reflejado en la historia por lo que tiene miles de interacciones distintas. La múisica y los sonidos acompañan de manera increíble. Hay conversaciones divertidisimas y delirantes, y personajes entrañables que te encantará atender en tu garita de guardia. Si te gusta el humor, a veces absurdo, y disfrutas de juegos al estilo "paper please" no dejes pasar este juego.
真的很好玩，也是我第一次玩完游戏之后想写点什么，各花入各眼，也许在老游戏人看来这款策略类的游戏会偏幼稚了些，但是对我这种喜欢玩选择类但又不想太费脑子（其实是想不明白）的玩家来说真是刚刚好，虽然玩到了完美结局，但是玩完之后还想再过一遍呢，暑假里能玩到一款如此适合自己的游戏真是不要太过瘾，唯一的遗憾就是流程有点点短，要是能更长就好了，期待Hilltop游戏公司能赶紧再出续作或者其他的游戏，看好你们哟~
Great art, great storyline
很喜歡，尤其喜歡世界觀，畫風跟裡面各種黑色幽默以及各個人物的性格 點讚全配音這點，大家講話都很陰陽怪氣 翻譯也都很到位 可惜的就是中文常常會壞掉www 破碎或是重影 另外就是道具資源太少，而且要每輪開始就安裝水晶，水晶也沒辦法在當天內購買 資源的限制很多變的很依賴倒回 另外就是選擇都是為了服務劇情，並沒有真的有自由度這點 你要拿滿四星就是得照著劇情的走 有點可惜了
I really enjoyed Lil' Guardsman from start to finish. The atmosphere is charming, the writing is witty, and the characters are memorable and full of personality. Every interaction feels carefully crafted, making it fun to discover the stories behind each visitor. One of my favorite aspects is how your decisions genuinely shape the story. There are multiple ways to handle each situation, which makes experimenting and replaying the game rewarding. If you enjoy narrative-driven adventure games with clever humor, meaningful choices, and a unique world, I definitely recommend giving this one a try.
Almost Fully Voice Acted - only some commentry isn't This is based on style of Paper Please deduction game but more of a visual novel You need to choose if to let people in or not, you do that by talking, getting advice, tools - tools are your best tools and they need crystals So more than all it's a story game in a fantasy world and it's "cute" has some adult jokes, overall I enjoy but if you want Paper Please this is not it, it's more a point and click visual novel disgusied as a deduction game P.S ignore my gameplay time I left it running in background would say I played around 6 hours +- not 21
Debo admitir que no esperaba tanto del juego el cual resulto ser muy buen juego, las decisiones que tomas y las cosas que haces enserio dan a situaciones muy graciosas sumando que el juego termino teniendo una historia mas interesante de lo que parece. Si eres amante de los juegos de decisiones y las situaciones sumamente aleatorias pero graciosas este es tu juego, Muy recomendado.
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