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Mobile game · 2020

The Kids We Were

The Kids We Were is an award-winning adventure game originally released worldwide for smartphones in February, 2020. Selected as one of the top 3 titles at the Google Play Indie Games Festival 2020, it has also won the avex Award, and been chosen for the Best Indies category of Google Play's Best Games of 2020. To celebrate the release of The Kids We Were on Nintendo Switch, we've added a bunch of brand-new content. If you want the full experience, look no further than this, the Complete Edition! The Complete Edition includes the full story available in the app, in addition to a new bonus episode set after the events of the main game. There are also brand-new collection items to find!

Estimated daily players

~1,4000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 1408.5K

Estimated total players

~28,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 14K56K

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

May 31, 2020AndroidiOSPEGI EESRB 12GRAC All

What the estimate rests on

  • Steam 57%
  • App Store 43%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play The Kids We Were, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on App Store, Steam, 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

~1,400

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 1408.5K

Built from the live counts: Steam concurrents, Discord and Reddit members online, Twitch viewers.

Estimated total players

~28,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 14K56K

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

Estimated daily players over time

from live counts

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for The Kids We Were per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~22,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed The Kids We Were where it is sold.

App Store ratings

470

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
4.8

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

Steam players in game

1

Reviews
130

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

Only the games with a PC port appear here, but where Steam does report it is a real concurrent-player count rather than a proxy for one.

Community signals

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

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 Kids We Were: Google Play, Discord, Reddit, 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

The Kids We Were is a cinematic adventure game with a heavy focus on narrative. Set in the late Japanese Showa era (the 1980s), it's a nostalgic journey through a unique time in Japan's recent history. Take on the role of Minato, a young boy who sets out on an unexpected and incredible summer adventure. Our story begins with Minato arriving in the small town of Kagami, an exceptionally ordinary sort of place in a sleepy suburb of Tokyo. But there's more to this simple trip than meets the eye. Minato has a secret objective: he intends to find his missing father, who is supposedly living somewhere in the area. Our young sleuth Minato wastes no time getting started, and soon finds a puzzling clue to his father's whereabouts. A mysterious notebook left for him with the portentous title "The Seven Mysteries." With this notebook as his guide, Minato sets out on a long and difficult journey, not through space, but through time. For his destination is none other than 33 years in the past—the day his father and mother first met!

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play The Kids We Were?

We estimate that about 28,000 people have played The Kids We Were — plausibly between 14K and 56K. Around 1,400 of them play on a given day, in a range of 140 and 8.5K. Both figures are modelled from public counts on App Store, Steam and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is The Kids We Were still active?

Yes. The Kids We Were 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 Kids We Were 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.

When was The Kids We Were released?

The Kids We Were was released on May 31, 2020 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is The Kids We Were available on?

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

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