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Nightmare: The Lunatic cover art

Nightmare: The Lunatic

Maetdol Games · 2024-03-31

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 31, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 04, 2025 (Nintendo Switch)

Nightmare: The Lunatic is a parrying action rogue-lite platformer game about escaping a nightmare. Constantly swap between 3 weapons, use special attacks, and avoid and parry enemy attacks. Strengthen yourself by collecting powerful and unique totems.

89%
positive of 274 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$16.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (75 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 27,529 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.5k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 274 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.05-17%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.56 at GameBillet (2026-05-13) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $16.99 · on sale 56 of 67 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
626220222026Week of 2022-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$16.99$5.222022-01-072026-10-082022-01-07 — best price $13.492023-07-13 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $16.992024-10-05 — best price $16.992024-12-18 — best price $9.252025-01-06 — best price $16.142025-01-24 — best price $9.792025-01-29 — best price $10.072025-02-04 — best price $10.092025-02-16 — best price $16.142025-03-15 — best price $8.362025-03-20 — best price $16.992025-04-30 — best price $7.742025-05-15 — best price $12.862025-06-28 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $8.382025-07-25 — best price $12.482025-08-01 — best price $7.792025-08-12 — best price $12.942025-09-03 — best price $14.382025-09-29 — best price $6.432025-10-07 — best price $7.092025-10-19 — best price $15.192025-11-01 — best price $14.382025-11-19 — best price $16.992025-11-25 — best price $7.162025-12-09 — best price $13.812025-12-31 — best price $8.502026-02-03 — best price $14.272026-02-25 — best price $12.992026-03-26 — best price $16.992026-04-24 — best price $16.992026-05-09 — best price $6.802026-05-24 — best price $12.482026-07-10 — best price $14.082026-10-08 — best price $14.05
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
90.2%
earned "Nightmare Visitor"
21.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

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

11 supported languages: Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-01-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2000%106

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

Player tags

2DActionColorfulDifficultControllerPlatformerRogue-likeRogue-liteRoguevaniaSouls-like

Census log

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

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