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Nightmare Puppeteer cover art

Nightmare Puppeteer

Imagination Rabbit · 2020-09-21

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 22, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cursed animation generator programmed by a madman. Manual or full ai mode. Things will happen... YES.

89%
positive of 72 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 35,363 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 72 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.28 at Steam (2022-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520202026Week of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$0.282020-09-222024-01-042020-09-22 — best price $39.992020-12-14 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $4.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-01-06 — best price $4.992021-10-26 — best price $0.992021-10-28 — best price $0.492021-11-01 — best price $0.992021-11-24 — best price $0.492021-12-01 — best price $0.992021-12-22 — best price $0.492022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-01-27 — best price $0.492022-02-03 — best price $0.992022-06-23 — best price $0.492022-07-07 — best price $0.992022-12-22 — best price $0.282023-01-05 — best price $0.992023-03-16 — best price $0.282023-03-23 — best price $0.992023-06-29 — best price $0.282023-07-13 — best price $0.992023-11-28 — best price $0.892023-12-21 — best price $0.792024-01-04 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopIncludes level editorRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Arabic, Finnish, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Player tags

3DAnimeFunnyHorrorSandboxSurrealModdableCinematicDark HumorDating Sim

Census log

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

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