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Arkham Nightmares

Tim Rachor · 2016-08-13

Steam

AdventureFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 13, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Arkham Nightmares is an adventure game with rogue-like elements. You play Prof. Liebwerk the head physician of the Lovecraftian Arkham Sanatorium. Your task is to complete your journal with all the stories from the crazy inmates. But before they will tell you anything you have to win their trust.

Arkham Nightmares is an Adventure and Free To Play game released in 2016, free-to-play, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (54% of 28 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-14

54%
positive of 28 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 69% of 28,920 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320162026Week of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Census log

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