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Mobile game · 2016

The Arcana

Enter the interactive world of Vesuvia, the most captivating visual novel full of mystery, love, and romance. Choose your preferred pronouns, make your own choices and romance to your heart’s desire! The Arcana is LGBTQ+ friendly.

Estimated daily players

~48,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 4.8K290K

Estimated total players

~970,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 480K1.9M

See what's trending

Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Oct 16, 2016AndroidiOS

What the estimate rests on

  • Google Play 58%
  • App Store 31%
  • Reddit 11%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play The Arcana, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Google Play, App Store, Reddit, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~48,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 4.8K290K

No source reports a live count for this game, so this is a share of the total player base — a genre assumption rather than an observation, which is why the range is wide.

Estimated total players

~970,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 480K1.9M

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for The Arcana per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~1,500,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed The Arcana where it is sold.

Google Play ratings

87,987

Average rating
4.5
Installs
1M+

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Ratings left on the Android listing. It is the broadest signal in the catalogue — about half of all games here have a Play page.

App Store ratings

16,103

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
4.6

Ratings left on the iOS listing, read from Apple’s public lookup endpoint.

Community signals

How many people gather around The Arcana outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Reddit members

36,424

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Subscribers to the game’s subreddit.

Twitch viewers

0

Live channels
0

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

People watching this game on Twitch right now, summed across every live channel in its category.

Not tracked for The Arcana: Steam, Discord, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

Storyline

You’re a young prodigy tarot card reader. You wake up in a magic shop confused with no memory. A mysterious figure appears that wishes to speak to your mentor but you offer them a tarot card reading instead. They’re intrigued by your reading. They offer you an invitation to the Palace, but for a price: You must uncover the mystery of their murdered partner. You’ll immediately be thrown into the thick mystic interactive story and dating sim, where you’ll rendezvous with many sultry people on your path to uncover the mystery. Each character has many hidden secrets that you discover through your choices. Be careful, your choices and who you decide to romance impact more than just yourself!

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play The Arcana?

We estimate that about 970,000 people have played The Arcana — plausibly between 480K and 1.9M. Around 48,000 of them play on a given day, in a range of 4.8K and 290K. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Google Play, App Store, Reddit and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is The Arcana still active?

Yes. The Arcana is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the The Arcana player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.

How big is the The Arcana Reddit community?

The Arcana has 36,424 members on Reddit, as of August 9, 2026.

When was The Arcana released?

The Arcana was released on October 16, 2016 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is The Arcana available on?

The Arcana is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from Google Play and App Store (iPhone).

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