Red Chat Ritual Price: Nothing Listed Before Launch

There is no published price for Red Chat Ritual – TSUMIMI TIME as of 2026-10-17. The game's Steam store page lists it as not available to purchase, gives a planned release date of October 22, 2026, and displays no price, no pre-purchase button and no free-to-play label. The price-tracking page on IsThereAnyDeal likewise marks the title as Unreleased, with an empty Steam price row.

Why there is no number to quote

The game is days away from launch rather than out. Tohakusha Inc. is listed as both developer and publisher on the Steam page, with CIRCLE LINE GAMES named as publisher for Chinese regions. Until the store page switches from "planned release" to a purchasable listing, there is simply no official figure to report, and nothing on the page suggests the game will be free — a missing price on an unreleased Steam listing is a timing issue, not a price of zero.

The practical move: wishlist and wait for the notification

The Steam page's own guidance is to add the game to your wishlist and be notified when it becomes available. That is the cleanest way to catch the price the moment it appears, since the page is the thing that will change. The Steam Community hub is also active with official "incident report" posts building up to launch, so following the game there gives you a second place the announcement is likely to surface. IsThereAnyDeal's page offers a separate waitlist/alert mechanism if you prefer email-style price watching.

If a third-party key reseller advertises a price before the Steam listing goes live, treat that figure as unverified rather than as the launch price — there is nothing on the store page to check it against.

What the price will be buying

The Steam page is more forthcoming about content than cost, which helps you judge value once a number does appear:

• A 15-day psychological horror adventure built around stream intervention, daytime investigation and nighttime deduction.
• Roughly 4 hours for a first playthrough, and an estimated 8–9 hours to see multiple endings, per the page's own "Before You Play" notes.
• A demo exists, and the page states plainly that demo save data cannot be carried over to the full game.
• Windows PC requirements only, with Steam Deck compatibility listed as Unknown.

Comparisons, not forecasts

On October 17, 2026, the Steam store page's "More like this" row listed genre neighbours at $15.99 (NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD), $17.99 (Strange Antiquities), $14.99 (Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!) and $29.99 (Scarlet Hollow). These are titles Steam chose to place beside it on that date, not a prediction of where Red Chat Ritual will land — treat them as the general band this kind of visual-novel-adjacent horror tends to occupy.

Regional pricing

Because the store page shows no price at all as of 2026-10-17, it also shows no regional breakdown. The separate CIRCLE LINE GAMES publishing arrangement for Chinese regions is the detail most likely to matter if you are buying outside the US or Europe, but the Steam page does not spell out what that means for local pricing.

Caveats worth keeping in mind

Price trackers can lag behind storefront changes, and the IsThereAnyDeal entry carries no player-version detail, so its "Unreleased" status reflects the listing it scraped rather than a hands-on check. Community discussion on the hub has so far centred on demo feedback — localisation quality, quality-of-life requests, chat behaviour — and not on cost, so there is no player-reported price to compare against either.

For the surrounding details, see the wiki's pages on the Red Chat Ritual release date, whether the game is free and how long it takes to finish.