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Bad Dream: Purgatory

Desert Fox · 2023-06-23

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 23, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Explore a surreal landscape filled with unused characters from a cancelled project. Will you give them purpose, or will they be doomed to suffer?

Bad Dream: Purgatory is an Adventure and Indie game released in 2023, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Mostly Positive (76% of 45 reviews) sentiment.

0
playing now
76%
positive of 45 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Welcome to the world of Bad Dream, where nothing is as it seems. In the latest addition to the series, Bad Dream: Purgatory, you'll explore a hauntingly surreal landscape filled with unused characters from a cancelled project. These characters are trapped in a state of limbo, suspended in nothingness without any purpose or direction. It's up to you, the player, to decide their fate and give them the meaning they so desperately crave.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 57% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $1.74 at Steam (2024-06-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 14 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020232026Week of 2023-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.742023-06-232026-07-312023-06-23 — best price $6.292023-08-02 — best price $6.292023-09-15 — best price $5.242023-10-29 — best price $4.892023-11-21 — best price $4.542023-12-12 — best price $4.192024-01-04 — best price $6.992024-02-16 — best price $6.992024-03-21 — best price $6.992024-04-10 — best price $6.992024-05-24 — best price $6.992024-07-11 — best price $6.992024-08-02 — best price $6.992024-09-20 — best price $6.992024-11-03 — best price $6.992024-12-04 — best price $1.742024-12-20 — best price $1.742025-01-19 — best price $1.742025-03-13 — best price $2.092025-03-27 — best price $1.742025-05-16 — best price $1.742025-06-27 — best price $1.742025-07-18 — best price $1.742025-09-15 — best price $2.092025-10-06 — best price $6.992025-11-14 — best price $6.992026-01-05 — best price $6.992026-01-23 — best price $6.992026-03-10 — best price $6.992026-03-26 — best price $6.992026-05-01 — best price $6.992026-06-25 — best price $4.992026-07-17 — best price $4.992026-07-31 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
9.4%
earned "First Aid"
7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Polish

Player tags

2.5DDarkHorrorSurrealAbstractStylizedAdventureLore-RichHand-drawnAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.