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Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside cover art

Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside

Humongous Entertainment · 2014-04-17

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 04, 1996 (Mac), Dec 12, 2012 (iOS), Aug 19, 2008 (Wii), Oct 04, 1996 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

There's no reason to be afraid of the dark. Fed up with his fear of the dark, Sam transforms himself into Pajama Sam - world's youngest superhero and resolves to confront Darkness! With help from King the mine car, Otto the boat, and a host of fascinating characters.

12
playing now
97%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
IGDB user rating (28 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

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

Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside is a 1996 adventure game developed and published by Humongous Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. The first game of the Pajama Sam franchise, it sold nearly three million units and won 50 awards.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 34k–81k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,349 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.69 at WinGameStore (2015-09-04) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 24 of 47 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

2882026-08-11 17:00 — 15 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 11 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 14 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 18 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 10 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 25 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 28 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 15 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 28 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 16 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 13 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 23 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 17 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 10 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 22 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 16 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 18 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 25 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 20 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 15 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 16 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 13 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 13 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 23 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 22 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$1.742015-01-012026-08-132015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-10-27 — best price $6.992016-03-02 — best price $6.992016-06-23 — best price $2.792016-10-31 — best price $6.992017-01-12 — best price $2.792017-05-11 — best price $2.792017-09-25 — best price $6.992017-12-14 — best price $2.792018-02-27 — best price $6.992018-06-26 — best price $6.992018-10-15 — best price $6.992018-12-18 — best price $2.802019-03-22 — best price $2.792019-06-24 — best price $2.792019-09-19 — best price $2.792019-12-01 — best price $6.992020-01-27 — best price $6.992020-04-28 — best price $6.992020-07-20 — best price $2.792020-10-29 — best price $3.492021-01-05 — best price $6.992021-04-30 — best price $3.492021-07-26 — best price $6.992021-11-26 — best price $3.492022-02-05 — best price $6.992022-05-28 — best price $6.992022-11-16 — best price $6.992023-02-04 — best price $6.992023-06-23 — best price $4.192023-11-17 — best price $4.192024-03-22 — best price $6.992024-08-10 — best price $6.992024-12-11 — best price $4.192025-05-24 — best price $6.992025-10-08 — best price $6.992026-01-10 — best price $6.992026-05-28 — best price $6.992026-08-13 — best price $4.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

103432026-06-01 — 57 pageviews2026-06-04 — 56 pageviews2026-06-07 — 62 pageviews2026-06-10 — 47 pageviews2026-06-13 — 66 pageviews2026-06-16 — 63 pageviews2026-06-19 — 49 pageviews2026-06-22 — 62 pageviews2026-06-25 — 70 pageviews2026-06-28 — 54 pageviews2026-07-01 — 60 pageviews2026-07-04 — 70 pageviews2026-07-07 — 54 pageviews2026-07-10 — 64 pageviews2026-07-13 — 74 pageviews2026-07-16 — 52 pageviews2026-07-19 — 47 pageviews2026-07-22 — 75 pageviews2026-07-25 — 59 pageviews2026-07-28 — 48 pageviews2026-07-31 — 50 pageviews2026-08-03 — 60 pageviews2026-08-06 — 45 pageviews2026-08-09 — 69 pageviews2026-08-12 — 45 pageviews2026-08-15 — 71 pageviews2026-08-18 — 79 pageviews2026-08-21 — 95 pageviews2026-08-24 — 56 pageviews2026-08-27 — 69 pageviews2026-08-29 — 103 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, German, Dutch

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)17474%11
Switch (Nintendo)70%0

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

Player tags

2DFunnyMemes1990'sCasualPuzzleAdventureEducationNostalgiaIlluminati

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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