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Dream Cycle

Cathuria Games · Raw Fury · 2022-08-09

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Sep 07, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Venture into Lovecraft’s legendary Dreamlands and join an epic struggle to save humanity. Master occult powers, unique weapons, and special combat abilities to vanquish powerful enemies. Explore, adventure, survive, and find a way to break the curse that threatens the waking world.

Dream Cycle is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2022, priced at $19.99, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (57% of 277 reviews).

0
playing now
57%
positive of 278 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
Nexus mods (17 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Discover the next evolution of action adventures with Dream Cycle, an ever-expanding portal into the unknown brought to you by the creator of Lara Croft, Toby Gard. Trapped in a shattered dimension, you take the role of Morgan Carter, a modern-day arcane apprentice. Defeat the corrupted inhabitants of the Dreamlands to break the curse. Use stealth, traps, spells, and illusions to quietly clear the way or challenge enemies head-on, exploiting their weaknesses with conventional weapons. Only by destroying these soulless opponents can you venture deeper into the Dreamlands, discover the truth of (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (73 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 27,751 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 5.6k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 278 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.39 at IndieGala Store (2024-02-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 2 of 5 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
616120212026Week of 2021-09-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$20.02$2.932021-09-072026-06-142021-09-07 — best price $16.992021-09-21 — best price $17.992021-11-30 — best price $11.902021-12-07 — best price $16.792021-12-27 — best price $8.992022-02-03 — best price $19.992022-03-02 — best price $20.022022-03-21 — best price $16.792022-05-01 — best price $8.502022-05-23 — best price $7.982022-06-17 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $19.992022-07-19 — best price $16.792022-08-05 — best price $9.712022-08-16 — best price $19.992022-09-12 — best price $8.122022-09-28 — best price $17.972022-10-31 — best price $19.992022-12-12 — best price $8.342023-01-03 — best price $16.792023-01-13 — best price $16.782023-02-07 — best price $7.992023-03-16 — best price $11.992023-04-11 — best price $16.782023-05-09 — best price $16.782023-06-11 — best price $19.992023-06-30 — best price $3.992023-07-22 — best price $8.752023-08-28 — best price $5.092023-12-11 — best price $19.992024-02-14 — best price $19.992024-05-20 — best price $3.992026-06-11 — best price $3.992026-06-14 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
26.6%
earned "Dream Warrior"
2.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1162%22

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

Player tags

DarkMagicActionCombatStealthSurrealAdventureControllerRogue-liteExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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