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Fausts Alptraum

LaboRatStudio · 2017-04-08

Steam

AdventureIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 08, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Fausts Alptraum is an single player, puzzle game created by LabORat Studio, an indie game team from Taiwan. The story based on Goethe's Faust. Players will play as a troubled girl wandering around in a crayon-drawn world. Players will have to find the relevance between dreams and reality by collecting clues.

Fausts Alptraum is a 2017 Adventure, Indie, and Free To Play game priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 1264 reviews).

6
playing now
94%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2
Nexus mods (63 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Elisabeth Faust was attending her father's funeral. Father had left her sorrow, depression, and an antiquated house. She walked into the building and followed a black cat down to the basement. Darkness suddenly claimed her sight. A purple demon materialized out of nowhere, smiling like they were old friends. The person she’d come to find was nowhere to be found. There was a sweet fragrance in the house. "I’ll show you the way out if you really want to leave." Thus the crayon illustrated story began, but she couldn’t tell if this was memory or imaginary. “But if at any moment, you wax nosta(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 62 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

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232320182026Week of 2018-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
242Apr 2017Aug 2026Apr 2017 — avg 18 · peak 57Jul 2017 — avg 15 · peak 57Oct 2017 — avg 5 · peak 15Jan 2018 — avg 6 · peak 15Apr 2018 — avg 4 · peak 15Jul 2018 — avg 4 · peak 12Oct 2018 — avg 3 · peak 14Jan 2019 — avg 4 · peak 14Apr 2019 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2019 — avg 5 · peak 13Oct 2019 — avg 3 · peak 9Jan 2020 — avg 4 · peak 11Apr 2020 — avg 5 · peak 15Jul 2020 — avg 4 · peak 14Oct 2020 — avg 3 · peak 10Jan 2021 — avg 4 · peak 13Apr 2021 — avg 3 · peak 10Jul 2021 — avg 4 · peak 13Oct 2021 — avg 3 · peak 13Jan 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Apr 2022 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Oct 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Jul 2023 — avg 3 · peak 8Oct 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Mar 2024 — avg 2 · peak 10Jun 2024 — avg 3 · peak 10Sep 2024 — avg 2 · peak 10Dec 2025 — avg 2 · peak 9Aug 2026 — avg 2 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-02-13 (Steam store data)

Player tags

RPGAnimeIndieHorrorPuzzleRPGMakerAdventureStory RichAtmosphericFree to Play

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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