Drunken Goddess Reflux has three official names and no renames. That distinction matters, because the most common question about the title is whether the game changed its name at some point — and the answer is that it never did. What changed is which store you are looking at.
The three names
| Region | Title | Script |
|---|---|---|
| Global (Steam, worldwide) | Drunken Goddess Reflux | Latin |
| Japan | PUKEY GODDESS SHOT TRICK | Latin |
| China | 酒鬼女神的酒诡 | Chinese |
Same app, same release date, same build. The store swaps the title based on the region your account is set to, which is why two people can search for the same game and get results that look unrelated.
What each name is doing
Drunken Goddess Reflux is the international title, and it is doing three jobs at once. Drunken names the mechanic. Goddess names the antagonist's status, which the game treats as a joke she takes seriously. Reflux is the vomiting, dressed in medical vocabulary so it reads as a condition rather than a gag.
Pukey Goddess Shot Trick is a more literal, more comic rendering of the same three ideas. Pukey is reflux without the euphemism. Shot is the glass and the gun at once. Trick is the card system — a deception you play. It is a better name for the game's actual tone and a worse one for its dignity, which is probably why it was kept for the region the game was written for.
酒鬼女神的酒诡 does something the English cannot. It reads as the drunk goddess's liquor trick, and the fourth character is a deliberate swap: the ordinary word for a drunkard is 酒鬼, and the title replaces the second character with 诡 — trickery, deceit — which sounds identical. The pun is on the mechanic. The game's card system is called Deception, and the Chinese title puts a deception inside the word for drunkard.
Why the Japanese title matters more than it looks
Japan is this game's home market in every sense that matters: the studio is in Tokyo, the voice track is Japanese only, and the Japanese store lists the game under a name that has nothing in common with the global one but the first letter.
If you search for Drunken Goddess Reflux in Japanese, you will find coverage. If you search for the name Japanese players actually type — ピューキーゴッデスショットトリック — you will find a different and much more specific set of questions: when it releases, what the title means, who drew it, what it costs, and what platforms it is on.
That split is why a Japanese-language page for this game has to be written around the katakana title rather than translated from the English one. A faithful translation of Drunken Goddess Reflux into Japanese produces a name nobody searches for.
The English title still appears on the Japanese store page as a subtitle, and the game's own announcements use it. Both names are correct. Only one is useful for finding things.
The misspellings
Because the title has three uncommon words in a row, it gets typed wrong constantly, and the wrong versions have picked up enough volume to show up in search suggestions.
| What people type | What it is |
|---|---|
| drunkenness goddess reflux | A synonym swap for drunken |
| drunkengoddessreflux | The same, as one word |
| pukey goddes shot trick | Dropped letter in goddess |
| femme sol | Femme Soule without the accent or the last letter |
| fam sour | Femme Soule, heard rather than read |
The last two are worth knowing about because they are how the character is spelled by people who have only heard her name spoken. If you are looking for discussion of Femme Soule and getting nothing, try femme sol.
None of these are alternate titles. They are all the same game, and every one of them resolves to it eventually.
The name people ask about: Pukey Goddess Shot Trick
This is the one that generates the most confusion, so to be explicit: there is no separate game called Pukey Goddess Shot Trick. It is not a sequel, a prequel, an earlier build or a Chinese knock-off.
It is the title the same Steam app displays when the store is served in Japanese. If you open the store page from a Japanese account, the header reads PUKEY GODDESS SHOT TRICK and the rest of the page is in Japanese. Switch the store language and the title changes back.
The only thing that could make this confusing is that the global store sometimes surfaces the Japanese title in search results, because Steam indexes regional titles together. That is why the two names appear side by side on the same page.
Questions people ask about the name
Did Drunken Goddess Reflux change its name?
No. The global title has been Drunken Goddess Reflux since the game was announced. The Japanese store uses a different title for the same build, which is a regional naming decision rather than a rename.
Is Pukey Goddess Shot Trick a different game?
No. It is the same Steam app shown under its Japanese regional title. Same release date, same store page, same build.
What does 酒鬼女神的酒诡 mean?
Roughly the drunk goddess's liquor trick. It is a pun: the ordinary Chinese word for a drunkard is 酒鬼, and the title swaps the second character for 诡, meaning trickery, which sounds the same. The swap points at the game's Deception card system.
Which name should I search?
The English title for English results, the katakana title for Japanese ones, and the Chinese title for the Chinese store. Searching the English name in Japanese returns coverage rather than the questions players actually ask.
What to call it in conversation
Most of the internet uses the English title, including Japanese outlets writing in English. Japanese players use the katakana one. If you are recommending the game to someone who is going to look it up on the store, give them the name their store will show — otherwise they will search, find nothing, and assume you were talking about something else.