Since its release on December 22, 2022, Aniplex sold over 150,000 copies of the PS4 and Nintendo Switch versions of Witch on the Holy Night. This number includes platforms, as well as both physical and digital copies. Because it is worldwide sales, it includes data from all countries, including Japan. [Thanks, KaroshiMyriad!]
Though 150,000 sales seems fairly low, it is a modest success for a visual novel with almost no choices (so it’s not a sim of any kind). Visual novels are still quite the niche genre, even if Type Moon works may have become more mainstream due to the Fate/stay Night anime adaptations.
Sales slowed significantly though. At the end of December 2022, shortly after the game came out, it sold 110,000 units. Nonetheless, the interest in The Witch on the Holy Night might have been one of the factors for why Type Moon decided to greenlight the English localization of Tsukihime Remake, which will come out in 2024.
Witch on the Holy Night is a visual novel that first came out for the PC in 2012. It follows Sojuro Shizuki, a young mn who moves to Misaki town and finds himself drawn to Aoko Aozaki. Unbeknownst to him, Aoko is a mage who lives with Alice Kuonji in a mansion that people say is inhabited by a witch. Sojuro finds himself pulled into a magical dispute happening within the town.
Witch on the Holy Night is readily available on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
