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Insomnia: Theater in the Head

Perfect Day Studio · 2022-12-15

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 16, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 16, 2022 (Mac)

Hickory dickory dock. The city's deep in sleep. The clock's ticking. The sheep's bouncing. Hickory dickory dock. The girl tosses again, only with more things swarming into her head... In this Point & Click puzzle game "Insomnia", the show in the head is rolling on again. Alas, any sleep tonight...

Insomnia: Theater in the Head is a 2022 Adventure, Casual, Indie and RPG game priced at $2.49, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (97% of 2983 reviews) and an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000.

2
playing now
97%
positive of 3.0k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
0.9h
to beat · completionist 1.1h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.49
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Hickory dickory dock. The city's deep in sleep. The clock's ticking. The sheep's bouncing. Hickory dickory dock. The girl tosses again, only with more things swarming into her head... In this Point & Click puzzle game "Insomnia", the show in the head is rolling on again. Alas, any sleep tonight... It's deep in the night. Have you ever been turning and tossing in bed? It's late in the night. Have you been turning and tossing in bed? Are you sad, worried, stressed, anxious, or confused? Did any negative emotions from the day affect your sleep? Or are you simply sleepless? Anyway, we hope you c(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 302 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~38/week).
  • · Review velocity up 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 60k–134k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,983 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.24 at GreenManGaming (2023-03-31)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.49 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
56956920222026Week of 2022-12-01: 569 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1202026-08-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 12 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 12 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.49$1.242022-12-162026-07-142022-12-16 — best price $1.992023-03-08 — best price $2.492023-03-29 — best price $2.492023-04-24 — best price $1.992023-07-13 — best price $2.492023-08-18 — best price $1.992023-09-28 — best price $2.492023-10-28 — best price $1.992023-11-21 — best price $1.992023-12-02 — best price $2.492023-12-21 — best price $1.992024-02-06 — best price $1.992024-03-14 — best price $1.992024-05-09 — best price $1.992024-05-25 — best price $2.492024-07-12 — best price $2.492024-08-10 — best price $2.492024-09-27 — best price $1.992024-10-25 — best price $1.992024-11-22 — best price $1.992024-12-13 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $2.492025-02-09 — best price $2.492025-03-20 — best price $2.492025-04-28 — best price $2.492025-05-28 — best price $1.692025-07-10 — best price $2.492025-09-29 — best price $1.612025-11-17 — best price $1.612026-01-05 — best price $2.492026-03-19 — best price $1.612026-05-18 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $2.492026-07-14 — best price $2.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
89.8%
earned "A Bunch of New Ideas"
71.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

8 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Ukrainian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)78468%16

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DIndieModernPuzzleCartoonCartoonyColorfulStylizedHand-drawnText-Based

Census log

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

Recent updates

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