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DON'T SCREAM cover art

DON'T SCREAM

Digital Cybercherries · 2024-10-28

Steam

CasualSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 27, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

If you scream, you restart. A jumpscare horror simulator where you walk through a pitch black forest and escape by reaching 8:00 AM.

11
playing now
65%
positive of 4.9k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Don't Scream is an indie survival horror game, designed by Joe Henson. The game became popular when it released for early access on 27 October 2023. Version 1.0 was released on 28 October 2024.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 11 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 289 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~36/week).
  • · Review velocity up 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,724 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 9,617 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 97k–219k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,869 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2026-05-06)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 14 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.1k1.1k20232026Week of 2023-10-01: 1,139 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 585 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 875 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 473 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1422026-08-11 19:00 — 12 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 13 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 11 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 8 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 11 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 13 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 10 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 8 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 12 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 9 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 13 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 14 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 6 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 11 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.992023-10-272026-07-092023-10-27 — best price $8.992023-11-03 — best price $9.992023-12-22 — best price $8.492024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $8.492024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-04-29 — best price $7.992024-05-06 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $8.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-09-18 — best price $14.992024-10-28 — best price $13.492024-11-04 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $11.242024-12-04 — best price $14.992024-12-09 — best price $11.992024-12-16 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $10.492025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $11.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-06-27 — best price $12.742025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-09-19 — best price $11.242025-09-26 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $12.742025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-10-27 — best price $6.742025-11-03 — best price $14.992025-11-21 — best price $7.992025-12-03 — best price $5.352025-12-10 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $5.192026-01-05 — best price $7.992026-03-19 — best price $5.592026-03-26 — best price $7.992026-05-06 — best price $3.992026-05-13 — best price $7.992026-06-25 — best price $5.192026-07-09 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

99132026-05-29 — 26 pageviews2026-06-01 — 16 pageviews2026-06-04 — 62 pageviews2026-06-07 — 46 pageviews2026-06-10 — 29 pageviews2026-06-13 — 21 pageviews2026-06-16 — 21 pageviews2026-06-19 — 20 pageviews2026-06-22 — 24 pageviews2026-06-25 — 16 pageviews2026-06-28 — 34 pageviews2026-07-01 — 21 pageviews2026-07-04 — 21 pageviews2026-07-07 — 25 pageviews2026-07-10 — 15 pageviews2026-07-13 — 29 pageviews2026-07-16 — 13 pageviews2026-07-19 — 23 pageviews2026-07-22 — 33 pageviews2026-07-25 — 24 pageviews2026-07-28 — 32 pageviews2026-07-31 — 14 pageviews2026-08-03 — 23 pageviews2026-08-06 — 16 pageviews2026-08-09 — 16 pageviews2026-08-12 — 24 pageviews2026-08-15 — 23 pageviews2026-08-18 — 37 pageviews2026-08-21 — 22 pageviews2026-08-24 — 17 pageviews2026-08-26 — 23 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
31.8%
earned "The Spectator"
7.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller Support

16 supported languages: English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)44111%18

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

Short1990'sCasualHorrorMysterySurrealRealisticJump ScareSimulationExploration

Census log

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

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