A compact registry of the public material used for game facts, card records, achievements, screenshots, and video embeds.
October 1 release: auto-repair, 20+ cards including seven limited cards, Brawler set, figurine bonuses, compactor throw condition and post-update trash gallery counters.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam News
Accessed: 2026-10-03
September 6 public release after beta; excludes conflicts with third-party apps such as RivaTuner.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam News
Accessed: 2026-10-03
September 5 official announcement of an optional betatest build for startup hangs, crashes, and broken saves. Gives the public KotaMotaBetaTest code, Steam branch-selection steps, and full-folder backup advice. The developer requests testing and does not guarantee repair or announce a default-branch release.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam News
Accessed: 2026-09-06
Original topic and reply are dated September 3 in UTC; the reply requests one-click toggled trash collection and a rotatable trash viewer. These are player requests, not announced settings or confirmed features in the planned free update.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-06
Primary source for the game premise, card condition, cereal boxes, foil cards, developer, publisher, platform, and Windows system requirements. It lists available storage but does not require an SSD.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam
Accessed: 2026-09-03
Primary source for the 40 public achievement names and descriptions.
Publisher: Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-05
Official release and update history; the newest item reviewed on September 3 is the September 1 Steam Trading Cards approval announcement.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam News
Accessed: 2026-09-03
Primary source for the five-fragment repair puzzle, repeatable trash piles, additional cards, and the secret-location surprise.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam News
Accessed: 2026-08-26
Primary visual source for the card binder, color sets, rarity labels, card stats, collection interface, and gameplay.
Publisher: KotaMota
Accessed: 2026-08-21
Secondary gameplay overview used only where clearly identified as third-party footage.
Publisher: RelaxGaming
Accessed: 2026-08-21
Official August 21 update covering save/load stability, new autosave triggers, the demo-progress reset, and launch achievement fixes.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam News
Accessed: 2026-09-03
Official August 22 update for the mouse-smoothing toggle, FOV control, cereal-box price and frequency, and collectible spawn changes.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam News
Accessed: 2026-09-03
Official August 27 update covering three-copy same-Quality Level Up exchanges, possible foil results, binder indicators, the Kotalion resale fix, cross-save achievement-counter fixes, cosplay fixes, cereal-box shop fixes, and pending Steam Community Items.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam News
Accessed: 2026-08-31
Official September 1 announcement that Steam approved KOTAMON cards and badges; it also says a free quality-of-life, card, and cosplay update is in development without an exact release date, while the launch failure remains under investigation.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam News
Accessed: 2026-09-03
Valve documentation for playtime-based card drops, badge crafting, booster eligibility, trading, the Community Market, and the separation between Trading Cards and in-game achievements.
Publisher: Valve / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-03
Valve documentation for regular and foil Trading Cards, five regular badge levels, the foil badge, and random Booster Pack eligibility after a player has received their allotted drops.
Publisher: Valve / Steamworks Documentation
Accessed: 2026-09-03
The live official market filter returns regular and foil KOTAMON Trading Cards plus a Booster Pack, independently confirming that these approved Community Items are available. The result count is dynamic and is not used as a fixed set total.
Publisher: Valve / Steam Community Market
Accessed: 2026-09-03
Post-update player reports about Continue or autosave loading older state and then overwriting the newer autosave.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-24
A post-patch report of upgrade loss. No official recovery method is stated in the thread.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-24
Launch-build reports in which cards and other collectibles remained saved while upgrades reset, including the exact 3/2/2/2/2 state.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-25
Launch-day discussion that preceded the official white-set achievement fix and highlighted confusion around the complete in-game set.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-24
Player reports about missing resolution controls and a reversible Steam launch-option workaround for fullscreen resolution.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-24
Current player reports that loose collectible objects can disappear when a new trash heap is opened.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-25
A current thread asking whether garbage piles can run out and reporting that loose cards and a cassette disappeared when the next pile was generated. It supports a pickup warning, not a guaranteed list of every affected object.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-02
A player asks whether printed card abilities improve speed, income, energy, or bag capacity; the single reply treats the text as rules for the fictional card game, so the thread is evidence of demand rather than official confirmation.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-02
Screenshot-backed list used to complete the 10-card color sets, correct two card names, and document the separate Kotalion card.
Publisher: ninewiki
Accessed: 2026-08-25
Current player questions about the manual fragment puzzle and requests for an automatic repair option.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-25
Corroborating requests for repair automation; it does not establish that an auto-assemble feature currently exists.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-25
Screenshot route through the garage doorframe using the beer-can collision, plus the in-menu Stuck recovery option.
Publisher: | P-1396 | / Steam Community Guides
Accessed: 2026-08-25
A short gameplay video independently demonstrating entry into Jenny's house through collision behavior.
Publisher: Kriya / Steam Community Guides
Accessed: 2026-08-25
Current reports of seven visible tapes but a 6/7 achievement counter, including one player whose next physical tape triggered Melomaniac.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-25
A separate player report that the Melomaniac counter remained at 6/7.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-25
Screenshot-backed route for six map pickups and the remaining trash-pile figurines.
Publisher: Raider King
Accessed: 2026-08-24
Independent screenshot guide corroborating the six map spots and random figurine identity at those pickups.
Publisher: Guidexon
Accessed: 2026-08-24
Pre-update discussion that explains why older community answers may still quote the former $50,000 shop price.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-24
Steam client instructions for checking installed game files; this cannot reconstruct already-lost save progress.
Publisher: Steam Support
Accessed: 2026-08-24
Current reports of long and highly variable waits for the third cosplay case. Player estimates conflict, so the thread does not establish a fixed heap number, rate, or pity mechanic.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-26
A current case-disappearance report plus community observations about reloading a pre-find save and seeing the outfit return in a later heap.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-26
Current late-game cash discussion covering bag capacity, the full-bag bonus, duplicate combining, cleanup speed, and a Kotalion resale loop explicitly described as a bug.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-26
Current player observations that three copies of the same card and quality can be combined into the next quality, with a reported value advantage over selling the three lower-quality copies separately.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-26
The source of a community 44-card inference based on four visible special slots; it does not confirm that three additional special cards are obtainable.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-26
A current discussion with conflicting player interpretations of foil, five-star quality, and one-color set completion; it is used to document ambiguity, not to choose an unpublished rule.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-26
Current-build reports that the Kotalion ending presents credits over gameplay rather than a separate cinematic and that the save remains playable afterward.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-26
Current controller and Steam Deck reports, including Steam keyboard-layout use and manually assigning the missing Q action to a controller button.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-26
Current accessibility request from a left-handed player who could not remap movement to the arrow keys in the reviewed build.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-26
Official instructions for per-game controller configuration and legacy bindings that map controller inputs to keyboard and mouse actions.
Publisher: Valve / Steamworks Documentation
Accessed: 2026-08-26
A newer request for passive or automatic fragment assembly; it does not establish that either option currently exists.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-26
An active end-game request for an automatic card-assembly device, including a suggestion that it could be an expensive late-game upgrade.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-27
A separate current request describing manual assembly of 20 or more cards as tedious and asking for an auto-complete option.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-27
An active 14-post thread describing late-game card mending as repetitive and asking for a bulk Build All control; it does not establish that such a control currently exists.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-29
A current report that the in-game sensitivity remains too slow even at its highest visible setting.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-27
The current Steam discussion listing shows a recent player report about color-related motion sickness. The listing does not establish a specific visual trigger or a confirmed fix.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-01
A current report in which a black case, cereal box, and cassette left loose after cleanup disappeared when the next trash heap was opened.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-27
A player request for unlocked outfits to appear beyond their current dedicated presentation rather than persist throughout the Upgrade Menu.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-27
An active completion thread centered on foil cards, figurines, costumes, card assembly, the 1,000-beer counter, and other late-game bottlenecks.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-27
A current completion post whose discussion independently identifies foil RNG as a late-game grind and asks whether the documented 41 cards were all collected.
Publisher: r/steamachievements / Reddit
Accessed: 2026-08-29
A retail screenshot and discussion identifying Kuroneko Omori as a Mori Calliope parody and pointing viewers to the tentacle-themed Ina reference in the official trailer.
Publisher: r/Hololive / Reddit
Accessed: 2026-08-27
Official profile describing Mori Calliope as the Grim Reaper's first apprentice.
Publisher: hololive production
Accessed: 2026-08-27
Official profile describing Ina'nis as a priestess of the Ancient Ones with the power to control tentacles.
Publisher: hololive production
Accessed: 2026-08-27
A large current startup thread with reports from existing and first-time players. Verification, reinstalling, restarting Steam, and -dx11 did not fix every case; save-file workarounds remain community advice rather than an official recovery procedure.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-30
A separate first-launch thread in which verification and reinstalling were ineffective for the original poster; replies discuss Player.log and several possible local-save files without establishing one universal cause.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-30
Independent report that KOTAMON began hanging at startup after working the previous day.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-30
A player report that Windows security controls blocked launch. It is a symptom lead only, not proof that every loading case is an antivirus false positive.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-30
Official Steam troubleshooting sequence for games that do not launch, including restarting, updating the system and drivers, verifying files, checking conflicts, and comparing system requirements.
Publisher: Steam Support
Accessed: 2026-08-30
Official explanation of Defender Protection History, quarantine, restore, and the security risk of allowing a file without being confident it is safe.
Publisher: Microsoft Support
Accessed: 2026-08-30
A current report and corroborating reply about boxes dropped on the floor disappearing after another purchase or yard refresh. This is distinct from the shop-transition bug listed as fixed on August 27.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-30
A player report that placed figurines became invisible after restart while the game still appeared to count their shelf positions; file verification, reinstalling, and the Stuck control did not resolve that case.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-30
Current route discussion corroborating the trash-pile and angled-beam approaches to the roof figurine.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-30
Official DLC description listing full-size card illustrations, full-HD wallpapers, sketches, and access through the base game installation folder.
Publisher: KotaMota Games / Steam
Accessed: 2026-08-30
A pre-purchase question and buyer confirmation that the pack contains artwork files, wallpapers, and sketches rather than playable card unlocks.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-30
A player thread posted on August 27 about a 459.3 MB client download. Its date aligns with the official August 27 card-upgrade and bug-fix announcement; it is not evidence of a separate August 30 patch.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-30
August 29 report of four two-star copies becoming one three-star copy with no unused copy remaining. A second reply suspects additional loss. No developer response, confirmed trigger, or recovery method was present in the reviewed replies.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-31
August 30 feature request with four replies about repetitive manual assembly during foil collection. Names, prices and foil milestones are proposals, not shipped upgrade requirements.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-31
August 30 report of seven visible tapes but a garage clipboard at 6/7, followed by the same player reporting an eighth visible tape and 7/7. Other players attribute the difference to a starter tape; that explanation is community evidence, not an official total or guaranteed remedy.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-08-31
Current 11/12 report after three complete heap clears. Replies show that at least two players who suspected bad RNG had instead missed a fixed yard pickup, including the figurine under the truck hood. This is a troubleshooting signal, not a published drop rate.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-03
Current first-launch report asking whether the endless loading screen requires an SSD. The question is a player hypothesis, while the official Steam requirements list available storage but do not require an SSD.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-03
A current player asks for an efficient 1,000-beer route after roughly 20 hours and about half the target. Multiple replies report buying and drinking repeatedly even at full energy; the thread does not establish an official cans-per-minute rate or fastest completion time.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-04
A current first-purchase report where the Unity splash completes but the in-game loading screen stalls. Several first-time players corroborate the symptom, while reported community workarounds still do not work for everyone.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-04
A current report of finding only one cosplay after a long card-and-foil run. Replies describe widely different waits, supporting continued demand but not a fixed heap count, drop rate, or confirmed regression.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-04
A current request to load personal music files in KOTAMON. Replies treat custom-file playback as an unimplemented feature and suggest using an external player; no official import folder or supported format is documented.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-04
Valve documentation explaining that achievements are application-specific and configured by the developer in Steamworks App Admin.
Publisher: Valve / Steamworks Documentation
Accessed: 2026-09-05
Current player guide documenting direct in-world key sequences for items, cards, money, and the active trash pile. It is the primary community source for the listed commands, not official KOTAMON documentation.
Publisher: Steam Community Guide
Accessed: 2026-09-05
A translated current guide that repeats and credits the In-game Cheats command list. Its author reports achievement progress after relaunch, which remains one player experience rather than an official policy.
Publisher: Steam Community Guide
Accessed: 2026-09-05
Player-authored JSON save-edit guide that identifies the Windows LocalLow folder and repeatedly warns readers to make a backup before changing values or indices.
Publisher: Steam Community Guide
Accessed: 2026-09-05
A player-authored AutoHotkey automation guide. Its mouse coordinates and timing are setup-dependent, so it supports the existence of automation demand rather than a universal script recommendation.
Publisher: Steam Community Guide
Accessed: 2026-09-05
Third-party BepInEx mod guide. A current comment reports card cleaning stopped working, supporting an update-compatibility warning rather than an installation recommendation.
Publisher: Steam Community Guide
Accessed: 2026-09-05
Current player guide describing a manual-save and reload reroll around a cereal box bought from Jenny. Comments report that loose trash-pile boxes can disappear after reloading; this is not an official guaranteed mechanic or published drop rate.
Publisher: Steam Community Guide
Accessed: 2026-09-05
Current report of a crash immediately after a cereal-box purchase and lost money. Reviewed replies point to an earlier manual save or normal re-earning; no official refund or recovery command is supplied.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-05
Current thread with multiple reports of a brief freeze before a background-music change, including on an M.2 NVMe installation. No developer diagnosis or universal fix is present.
Publisher: KOTAMON players / Steam Community
Accessed: 2026-09-05
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