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Goodnight Universe

Nice Dream · Skybound Games · 2025-11-11

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 18, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 11, 2025 (Nintendo Switch 2), Nov 11, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 11, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Nov 11, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)

From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.

97%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
85/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Goodnight Universe is an adventure video game developed by Nice Dream and published by Skybound Games. Players control a 6-month-old baby named Isaac, voiced by Lewis Pullman, who is discovering he has psychic powers. The game was released for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on November 11, 2025, and for Nintendo Switch on December 18, 2025.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 72 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity up 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (355 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 28k–62k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,376 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $15.05 at GameBillet (2025-11-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 13 of 41 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
34534520252026Week of 2025-11-11: 345 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 117 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-11-25: 105 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 64 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-28: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-04: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$14.242025-11-112026-08-132025-11-11 — best price $17.092025-11-13 — best price $17.992025-11-17 — best price $15.812025-11-19 — best price $19.992025-11-21 — best price $18.582025-11-24 — best price $18.582025-11-27 — best price $18.582025-12-05 — best price $16.682025-12-09 — best price $18.482025-12-17 — best price $18.482025-12-23 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-01-09 — best price $19.992026-01-22 — best price $19.092026-02-05 — best price $15.992026-03-05 — best price $15.992026-03-19 — best price $15.992026-04-17 — best price $15.992026-05-22 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-13 — best price $15.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

202262026-05-23 — 57 pageviews2026-05-26 — 50 pageviews2026-05-29 — 59 pageviews2026-06-01 — 63 pageviews2026-06-04 — 50 pageviews2026-06-07 — 51 pageviews2026-06-10 — 112 pageviews2026-06-13 — 56 pageviews2026-06-16 — 58 pageviews2026-06-19 — 55 pageviews2026-06-22 — 51 pageviews2026-06-25 — 54 pageviews2026-06-28 — 53 pageviews2026-07-01 — 54 pageviews2026-07-04 — 55 pageviews2026-07-07 — 42 pageviews2026-07-10 — 52 pageviews2026-07-13 — 34 pageviews2026-07-16 — 39 pageviews2026-07-19 — 43 pageviews2026-07-22 — 51 pageviews2026-07-25 — 52 pageviews2026-07-28 — 35 pageviews2026-07-31 — 45 pageviews2026-08-03 — 69 pageviews2026-08-06 — 46 pageviews2026-08-09 — 42 pageviews2026-08-12 — 37 pageviews2026-08-15 — 39 pageviews2026-08-18 — 37 pageviews2026-08-20 — 51 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
84.7%
earned "Remains of the Playmobil"
31.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)21416%12
PS5 (PlayStation)11558%12
Switch 2 (Nintendo)440%0
Xbox Series (Xbox)560%12
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

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

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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