Carpe Diem

A short visual novel about dating an almost ideal girl

Moonlit Works · Released Nov 30, 2015

Reviews: Very Positive; 89% of 9,631
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 85% of 14 in 30 days
Players: 1; daily peak, Oct 30, 2026
Steam Deck: Untested
Last update on Steam: 4 years ago; Oct 6, 2022
Minimum PC: integrated chipset; 0.1 GB RAM · 0.2 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Carpe Diem?

You play as Jung in this free, single-player visual novel, spending a day with a girl named Ai. You read the story from his perspective and make choices that take their date along different routes.

For you if...

+you enjoy anime-style romance told mainly through reading

Not for you if...

−you want branching stories with multiple endings

What players say

89% of 9,631 reviews are positive · 85% of 14 in the last 30 days

Players praise the unexpected ending. A critical reviewer finds the story too brief and the routes repetitive.

Screenshots and trailer

Carpe Diem system requirements

Minimum: integrated chipset, 0.1 GB RAM, 0.2 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS: Windows XP SP1
Processor: Pentium 4 1.7 GHz
Graphics: Intel integrated chipset
Memory: 128 MB RAM
Storage: 150 MB available space

Does Carpe Diem have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Carpe Diem run on Steam Deck?

Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements: 2
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Languages: Text only: English, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Swedish, Russian, Korean, Thai.

Does Carpe Diem use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam