{"rewrite":{"id":"r_46c80c516477678e99819983","clusterId":"c_34af9989ef775a096cc7b9a5","slug":"lily-s-world-xd-hits-steam-with-98-percent-positive-reviews","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Lily's World XD Hits Steam With 98 Percent Positive Reviews","summary":"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.","whyItMatters":"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.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eSondering Emily\u0026#39;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.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"lily's world XD is out on Steam, built around an early-2000s desktop you search to piece together Lily's life. 98% positive from 282 reviews so far. On sale at 1,280 yen, 20% off, through September 25.","twitterPost":"lily's world XD is out on Steam: an early-2000s desktop UI where you search a girl's laptop to piece together Lily's life. 98% positive from 282 reviews. On sale at 1,280 yen, 20% off, through September 25.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Kwalee has released lily's world XD, a PC psychological horror game from indie developer Sondering Emily, on Steam. It runs on a UI styled after early-2000s PCs, and the player searches a girl's laptop to uncover her life. As of September 19 it holds a Very Positive rating at 98 percent positive from 282 reviews, and it is discounted to 1,280 yen until September 25.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/19/172506.html\",\"title\":\"Psychological Horror 'lily's world XD,' in Which You Search for Secrets on a Girl's Laptop, Starts Off 'Very Positive'\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4709,"outputTokens":620,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789748064,"createdAt":"2026-09-18T16:09:53.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-18T16:13:22.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-18T16:13:22.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_34af9989ef775a096cc7b9a5","canonicalTitle":"少女のノートパソコンから秘密を探るサイコロジカルホラー『lily's world XD』“非常に好評”スタート","representativeArticleId":"a_d570f39f874d8a3be4f19aa9","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"lily's world XD\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-18T15:30:03.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-18T15:30:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-18T16:13:22.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/19/172506.html","title":"少女のノートパソコンから秘密を探るサイコロジカルホラー『lily's world XD』“非常に好評”スタート"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["lily's world XD"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}