Lily's World XD Hits Steam With 98 Percent Positive Reviews
The review count is still small, but a 98 percent positive split out of 282 reviews puts the early-2000s desktop conceit and the developer's own photographs in front of a receptive audience at launch, which is the kind of signal that shapes how a small horror title gets discovered in the first week.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Kwalee released the PC psychological horror game lily's world XD on Steam on September 17, 2026. Indie developer Sondering Emily built the game around a UI styled after early-2000s PCs, and the player searches a girl's laptop to piece together Lily's life. As of September 19, the game holds a Very Positive rating with 98 percent positive from 282 user reviews. It is on sale at 1,280 yen, 20 percent off, until September 25.
Sondering Emily's approach to the desktop setting drew on her own material. She said she used photographs of herself from her teenage years and copied text inspired by her own old blog for the awkward blog sequences in the game, and built the excessive ad clutter with restraint in mind. The announcement trailer leaned on chat logs, text diaries and cryptic messages, while the store page hints at a mysterious force working against the player.
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