# Asphyxia

Summer DB entity ID: 8d268d6f\-21b9\-466b\-9416\-8f3d97748ef7

Steam App ID: 386990

Asphyxia  is a gloomy yuri visual novel that takes well\-known Romantic poets like Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Byron, and turns them into cute anime girls\. It's every literature student's dream\! ♥  Follow Samantha Coleridge, who is \(as one might expect coming from Coleridge\) languishing in the doldrums of depression\. Samantha has been miserable for a long time, but her bleak mood has continued to worsen after an intense falling\-out with her best friend, Lillian Wordsworth\.  Why did her friendship with Lillian collapse, and was Samantha truly to blame for it?  Samantha turns these thoughts over in her head fitfully for several months, until a school field trip gives her a chance to once again spend time with Lillian\. In the enchanting environs of the Lake District, will Samantha finally be able to fix her fractured relationship with Lillian\.\.\.  Or is it destined to crumble once again?          70k worth of text \(approx 3\-6 hours of reading\)   A story with four different endings and several choices   Gorgeous character and background artwork   A cast of characters all based on Romantic poets \(and Alexander Pope\)   Samuel Taylor Coleridge, re\-envisioned as a sad lesbian\!\!\!   She has a crush on Wordsworth now\!\!\!   Wordsworth doesn’t reciprocate\!\!\!   Also, chic vampire Byron is pretty cute ♥

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: ebi\-hime

- Publisher: ebi\-hime

- Release date: Aug 4, 2015

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie, Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/386990/ss\_d799b8d296bb190300f0de29d929dc1c4db0ec70\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1780695721, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/386990/ss\_da1c0aaef7d831c7a3c053eb016c8ac689205224\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1780695721, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/386990/ss\_a54b9cce57b3f931cc64d1447052a5fedd492503\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1780695721, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/386990/ss\_ac4439457b13374c1db6f1f1949dffaedf6d9036\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1780695721, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/386990/ss\_403f8636c8dab76116237d607f26247095845d56\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1780695721, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/386990/ss\_e5e4bbfabc87c8278446a8c75c8a66fdc92a1e71\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1780695721, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/386990/ss\_6876e9af48d77dca63e163c47d0227deeb508fe8\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1780695721

- Price: 599 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 283

- Steam positive reviews: 220

- Steam negative reviews: 63

- Steam positive percentage: 77.73851590106007%

- 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\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T05:46:00\.096824\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T05:46:01\.344008\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T05:46:01\.096605\+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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