
You’ve crash landed on a dangerous alien planet with no food, medicine, or prospects, but you do know one thing—you are absolutely desperate for friendship.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
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.
About

Welcome to Hiveswap Friendsim, a darkly comedic episodic visual novel set in the Homestuck/Hiveswap universe, created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie.
You’ve crash landed on a dangerous alien planet with no food, medicine, or prospects, but you do know one thing—you are absolutely desperate for friendship.
Travel from grimy underground clubs to stately mansions, meeting trolls up and down the hemospectrum along the way.
Hiveswap Friendsim is a quick, loosely-canonical visual novel adventure following the efforts of the unnamed protagonist (that’s you!) to survive and maybe even thrive on the harsh surface of ALTERNIA.
Set in the time of Hiveswap: Act 1 and featuring characters from Hiveswap: Act 2, this episodic visual novel, is sure to satisfy Homestuck and Hiveswap fans who are eager for a darker stroll across the Alternian landscape.

You heard us! Purchasing Hiveswap Friendsim unlocks all 18 volumes of the visual novel adventure.
Genres
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, GOG, Epic, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $12.99 | 1.4Kreviews | 92% | — | $569.9K |
| $2.24−85% | 44ratings | 90% | — | not modelled | |
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 49 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
VERY GOOD
Don't play it
pretty fun experience, worth the $2, although i wouldnt buy it for more than $10. not enough self makeable choices
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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 2,400 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.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English
| $12.99 |
| 20ratings |
| 62% |
| — |
| not modelled |
| $12.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
| $2.24−85% | — | — | — | 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 49 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
F R I E N D S H I P
Friendsim is a can of worms of verriable quality. If you dont like vns then just skip it and do hiveswap act 2, if you like vns then ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this is the game for you. It has more content in it than the game that follows it and is so peak tbh
its pretty good
The writing is good, the art is pretty, and the soundtrack is great. But the game does feel very cheap in some places, like text going outside of the box, the game crashing when you open the history in some volumes, the game breaking the forth wall a bit too much near the end, and Elwurd's sprite being in a different art style to the rest. I still had a lot of fun playing it and learning more about Hiveswap Act 2's trolls!
Friendship 10/10. Carnage, aliens, worldbuilding, and shenanigans, also 10/10.
The writing of this game is excellent. The backgrounds and art are beautiful. The makers of this game cared about it and wanted to give their players something fun. If you're into Hiveswap, please play this game. Though the recommendation is to play it after Hiveswap Act 2.
Divertido, se gosta de ler, ta ai. um otimo jogo com personagens e histórias muito bem feitas, mas os cenarios são raros, primeiro visual novel que joguei, não sei se ter pouco cenários é comum, tive que usar mais a imaginação com as descrições que davam. uníca critíca ruim é os lusus serem mal feitos.
Selling now
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Players by region
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