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NightCry

Nude Maker · PLAYISM · 2016-03-28

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 28, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 31, 2019 (PlayStation Vita)

NightCry is set on a cruise ship, and you have been invited along for the cruise of a (possibly short) lifetime. While your surroundings are luxurious and the guests are friendly, not everything is as it should be. The guests and the crew start to turn up dead, the victims of some foul murderer.

0
playing now
59%
positive of 300 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
20/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
28/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

NightCry is a graphic adventure survival horror video game developed by Nude Maker and published by Playism Games. NightCry is directed and written by Clock Tower series creator Hifumi Kono, and is considered a spiritual successor to the series. It was first released for Windows in March 2016, and later for the PlayStation Vita in January 2019. Ports for Android and iOS were also planned, but never released.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 49% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.5k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 300 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2024-02-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$7.492016-03-292024-09-302016-03-29 — best price $24.992016-05-18 — best price $24.992016-07-04 — best price $24.992016-08-30 — best price $24.992016-11-01 — best price $24.992016-11-14 — best price $24.992016-11-29 — best price $24.992017-01-02 — best price $24.992017-01-23 — best price $24.992017-03-27 — best price $24.992017-05-31 — best price $24.992017-07-05 — best price $24.992017-09-04 — best price $24.992017-10-23 — best price $24.992017-11-01 — best price $24.992017-11-28 — best price $24.992018-01-04 — best price $24.992018-01-29 — best price $24.992018-07-05 — best price $24.992018-07-23 — best price $24.992018-09-24 — best price $24.992018-11-01 — best price $24.992018-11-27 — best price $24.992019-01-04 — best price $24.992019-01-28 — best price $24.992019-02-11 — best price $24.992019-04-01 — best price $24.992019-05-06 — best price $24.992019-05-24 — best price $24.992019-06-03 — best price $24.992019-07-09 — best price $24.992024-02-15 — best price $24.992024-09-30 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing3 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DCasualDemonsHorrorPuzzleStealthSurvivalStory RichExplorationDark Fantasy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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