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Dreams in the Witch House

Atom Brain Games · Bonus Stage Publishing · 2023-02-16

SteamGOG

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 16, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Navigate the eerie world of Dreams in the Witch House, a unique blend of point-and-click and RPG-adventure. Unravel occult mysteries in Arkham, maintain your sanity, and survive the May-Eve in this Lovecraftian horror game.

Dreams in the Witch House is an Adventure, Indie, RPG game released in 2023, priced at $3.29, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 466 reviews).

2
playing now
91%
positive of 468 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
Nexus mods (10 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.29
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know. - H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House Arkham, Massachusetts 1929. Walter Gilman, a promising math student, has just moved to the city and is starting his studies at Miskatonic University. The Dombrowski’s boarding house where he resides has a bad reputation, but Walter doesn’t mind the old rumors... Until the dreams start. A hideous scheme is underway, and if Walter is not careful, it could cost him more than his life. It could cost him his soul. Dreams in the Witch House is a uni(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 52 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.4k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 468 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$10.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.19 at IndieGala Store (2026-05-18) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $10.99 · on sale 79 of 155 observed days · $8.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
535320232026Week of 2023-02-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 6 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 6 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 5 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.99$2.742023-02-162026-10-142023-02-16 — best price $10.992023-05-10 — best price $9.342023-07-24 — best price $9.342023-11-02 — best price $10.992024-01-04 — best price $10.992024-03-21 — best price $10.992024-06-17 — best price $10.992024-08-05 — best price $10.992024-10-16 — best price $8.242024-11-27 — best price $5.492025-01-16 — best price $10.992025-02-17 — best price $10.992025-03-13 — best price $3.962025-04-14 — best price $3.962025-05-05 — best price $3.672025-05-30 — best price $10.992025-07-11 — best price $8.362025-08-25 — best price $10.992025-09-23 — best price $10.992025-10-08 — best price $10.992025-10-28 — best price $5.492025-11-26 — best price $10.992025-12-22 — best price $8.362026-01-15 — best price $3.292026-02-04 — best price $4.392026-03-02 — best price $10.992026-03-18 — best price $3.852026-04-09 — best price $3.852026-05-01 — best price $10.992026-05-21 — best price $10.992026-06-14 — best price $10.992026-07-13 — best price $2.812026-07-31 — best price $2.812026-08-30 — best price $10.992026-09-07 — best price $10.992026-09-15 — best price $4.392026-09-23 — best price $10.992026-10-01 — best price $10.992026-10-09 — best price $10.992026-10-14 — best price $10.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
25.7%
earned "Alchemist"
11.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, French, Spanish - Latin America

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-02-21 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)14012%30

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

Player tags

RPGHorrorMysterySurvivalAdventureLore-RichNonlinearOpen WorldLovecraftianPoint & Click

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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