# Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos

Summer DB entity ID: 6c494641\-3550\-4187\-abd6\-76968dcc7500

Steam App ID: 248800

From Dischan Media, creators of the highly acclaimed  Juniper's Knot , comes  Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos \.    Dysfunctional Systems  is a visual novel series featuring Winter Harrison, a student mediator from a utopian world\.  Learning to Manage Chaos  is the first entry in the series\.  What is a mediator? A mediator is someone who travels to chaotic worlds, attempting to resolve the issues plaguing them\. The first entry in the series follows Winter's second mediation, where she shadows the experienced and aloof mediator: Cyrus Addington\.   Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos  features two distinct endings, unlockable bonus art, an animated opening video, and a jukebox of in\-game music\. What is a visual novel?  A visual novel is a mix of choose your own adventure books, comics and manga, music, and animation\. Play through the story and make choices for the main character to change the outcome of the episode and the events of future episodes\! Soundtrack Included  All Steam purchases of  Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos  include the official soundtrack absolutely free\! Enjoy a total of 18 tracks, including a full rendition of the Dysfunctional Systems opening theme, in both MP3 and FLAC\. The album is included with the game files\. To access, right click the "Dysfunctional Systems" entry in your library, click "properties", then go to the "local files" tab, and click the "browse local files" button\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Dischan Media

- Publisher: Dischan Media

- Release date: Sep 26, 2013

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/248800/ss\_d92bf8f22ef8b311886ea4f802e220e77d3f6224\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1669298710, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/248800/ss\_7328bd98ad756d750a22deb3781cb4742c640ddb\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1669298710, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/248800/ss\_3524e9e631524882c3beec77ab20a7583534b312\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1669298710, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/248800/ss\_39ac02d86c69ed856d7d9820bca8f2e5005a53ea\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1669298710, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/248800/ss\_d53d778e870738dc0e0ca73e78072521d754f552\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1669298710

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 786

- Steam positive reviews: 592

- Steam negative reviews: 194

- Steam positive percentage: 75.31806615776081%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-28T22:30:57\.601285\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-28T22:30:58\.877568\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-28T22:30:58\.732654\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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