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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams cover art

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

Black Forest Games · HandyGames · 2012-10-22

SteamGOGEpic Games StoreXboxAmazon

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 21, 2013 (Xbox 360), Sep 05, 2013 (Wii U), Oct 23, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 18, 2013 (PlayStation 3)

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds.

0
playing now
77%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (28 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (7 downloads)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a 2012 platform game developed and published by Black Forest Games for Windows. It is the sequel to the 2009 Nintendo DS game Giana Sisters DS, itself a remake of the 1987 Commodore 64 game The Great Giana Sisters. The game was funded through crowdfunding website Kickstarter, reaching its goal of $150,000.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 77k–154k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,925 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$2.61-83%
Gamesplanet$2.63-82%
GOG$2.99-80%
IndieGala$2.99-80%
GamersGate$3.00-80%
GOG$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2024-11-25) · bundled 18×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 94 of 155 observed days · $1.72 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-14 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
832Oct 2012Aug 2025Oct 2012 — avg 67 · peak 157Feb 2013 — avg 24 · peak 158Jun 2013 — avg 17 · peak 76Oct 2013 — avg 18 · peak 73Feb 2014 — avg 83 · peak 437Jun 2014 — avg 61 · peak 196Oct 2014 — avg 15 · peak 42Feb 2015 — avg 18 · peak 67Jun 2015 — avg 16 · peak 39Oct 2015 — avg 13 · peak 32Feb 2016 — avg 12 · peak 34Jun 2016 — avg 10 · peak 35Oct 2016 — avg 8 · peak 26Feb 2017 — avg 8 · peak 29Jun 2017 — avg 7 · peak 23Oct 2017 — avg 6 · peak 22Feb 2018 — avg 5 · peak 22Jun 2018 — avg 4 · peak 17Oct 2018 — avg 3 · peak 13Feb 2019 — avg 4 · peak 16Jun 2019 — avg 4 · peak 23Oct 2019 — avg 4 · peak 13Feb 2020 — avg 3 · peak 12Jun 2020 — avg 4 · peak 15Oct 2020 — avg 4 · peak 13Feb 2021 — avg 4 · peak 16Jun 2021 — avg 3 · peak 9Oct 2021 — avg 3 · peak 9Feb 2022 — avg 3 · peak 14Jun 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Oct 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Feb 2023 — avg 3 · peak 11Jun 2023 — avg 2 · peak 9Oct 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Dec 2024 — avg 3 · peak 13Aug 2025 — avg 2 · peak 6
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.51$1.002015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $7.492015-05-06 — best price $11.492015-09-11 — best price $14.992016-01-31 — best price $14.242016-08-05 — best price $13.572017-06-23 — best price $2.242018-04-20 — best price $14.992018-11-01 — best price $3.752019-03-25 — best price $14.992019-07-26 — best price $3.742019-12-04 — best price $14.992020-02-16 — best price $14.612020-06-10 — best price $14.992020-08-20 — best price $13.392020-10-27 — best price $13.392021-01-12 — best price $12.632021-03-27 — best price $12.382021-06-08 — best price $11.012021-08-23 — best price $2.392021-11-20 — best price $12.382022-02-07 — best price $13.382022-05-28 — best price $14.992022-09-20 — best price $14.992022-12-13 — best price $11.892023-03-20 — best price $2.992023-06-28 — best price $3.202023-11-20 — best price $2.992024-04-24 — best price $9.892024-09-26 — best price $2.802024-12-29 — best price $2.582025-04-07 — best price $14.992025-09-07 — best price $14.992025-12-08 — best price $11.692026-05-17 — best price $14.992026-08-29 — best price $2.612026-10-08 — best price $14.992026-10-14 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

58202026-06-02 — 38 pageviews2026-06-06 — 58 pageviews2026-06-10 — 50 pageviews2026-06-14 — 35 pageviews2026-06-18 — 33 pageviews2026-06-22 — 38 pageviews2026-06-26 — 25 pageviews2026-06-30 — 37 pageviews2026-07-04 — 49 pageviews2026-07-08 — 21 pageviews2026-07-12 — 31 pageviews2026-07-16 — 20 pageviews2026-07-20 — 36 pageviews2026-07-24 — 21 pageviews2026-07-28 — 36 pageviews2026-08-01 — 28 pageviews2026-08-05 — 36 pageviews2026-08-09 — 24 pageviews2026-08-13 — 35 pageviews2026-08-17 — 24 pageviews2026-08-21 — 26 pageviews2026-08-25 — 25 pageviews2026-08-29 — 38 pageviews2026-09-02 — 27 pageviews2026-09-06 — 43 pageviews2026-09-10 — 28 pageviews2026-09-14 — 35 pageviews2026-09-18 — 29 pageviews2026-09-22 — 32 pageviews2026-09-26 — 25 pageviews2026-09-30 — 33 pageviews2026-10-04 — 31 pageviews2026-10-08 — 30 pageviews2026-10-12 — 33 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
74.9%
earned "Dream Twist"
2.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam Leaderboards1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2014-10-09 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)21,0510%25
PS3 (PlayStation)15,2611%12
Xbox Live Arcade, Xbox 360 (Xbox)1,3114%12

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

Player tags

2D2.5DAnimeRetroActionArcadeFantasyAdventureDifficultController

Census log

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

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