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Picayune Dreams

Stepford · 2 Left Thumbs · 2023-12-04

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 04, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival, and bullet hell gameplay. Adrift across the endless void, you must fend off thousands of nightmarish and otherwordly creatures. Uncover a mysterious and surreal story. And don't forget. You mu [TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED...]

Picayune Dreams is an Action game released in 2023, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (99% of 4632 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

30
playing now
99%
positive of 4.6k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

30 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Picayune Dreams trailer thumbnail

Picayune Dreams - Launch Trailer

≈35,284 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 30 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 775 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~97/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 7% of 28,202 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-26

Estimated sales: 93k–209k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,647 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-12-04) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
54554520232026Week of 2023-12-01: 545 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5102026-09-16 08:00 — 18 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 26 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 47 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 16 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 18 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 38 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 19 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 19 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 34 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 28 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 12 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 34 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 33 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 30 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 34 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 44 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 31 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 33 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 39 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 35 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 33 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 36 players2026-10-15 06:00 — 30 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
12822Dec 2023Aug 2026Dec 2023 — avg 73 · peak 187Jan 2024 — avg 43 · peak 93Feb 2024 — avg 27 · peak 58Mar 2024 — avg 47 · peak 120Apr 2024 — avg 29 · peak 71May 2024 — avg 34 · peak 85Jun 2024 — avg 27 · peak 97Jul 2024 — avg 51 · peak 110Aug 2024 — avg 23 · peak 55Sep 2024 — avg 32 · peak 86Oct 2024 — avg 28 · peak 60Nov 2024 — avg 22 · peak 44Dec 2024 — avg 45 · peak 149Jan 2025 — avg 30 · peak 73Feb 2025 — avg 121 · peak 683Mar 2025 — avg 128 · peak 316Apr 2025 — avg 51 · peak 118May 2025 — avg 52 · peak 101Jun 2025 — avg 45 · peak 101Jul 2025 — avg 48 · peak 90Aug 2025 — avg 36 · peak 67Sep 2025 — avg 35 · peak 66Oct 2025 — avg 38 · peak 75Nov 2025 — avg 33 · peak 65Dec 2025 — avg 76 · peak 200Jan 2026 — avg 51 · peak 103Feb 2026 — avg 47 · peak 111Mar 2026 — avg 31 · peak 59Apr 2026 — avg 29 · peak 64May 2026 — avg 32 · peak 61Jun 2026 — avg 33 · peak 76Jul 2026 — avg 33 · peak 60Aug 2026 — avg 30 · peak 60
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$99.99$2.992023-08-292026-07-202023-08-29 — best price $99.992023-12-04 — best price $4.992024-01-19 — best price $4.492024-03-04 — best price $4.492024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-04-26 — best price $4.242024-05-13 — best price $3.992024-06-27 — best price $3.992024-07-12 — best price $4.992024-08-10 — best price $4.992024-09-09 — best price $4.992024-10-08 — best price $4.992024-10-24 — best price $4.992024-11-02 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992024-12-16 — best price $3.492025-01-11 — best price $4.992025-02-15 — best price $4.992025-03-03 — best price $3.492025-03-13 — best price $3.492025-03-28 — best price $4.992025-05-24 — best price $4.992025-06-02 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-09-06 — best price $3.492025-09-29 — best price $3.342025-12-04 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-02-07 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-04-25 — best price $2.992026-06-08 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $2.992026-07-13 — best price $2.992026-07-20 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
99.9%
earned "Hello World!"
42.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-01-24 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,2196%140

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

SpaceActionSci-fiSurrealLore-RichFuturisticRogue-likeBullet HellPsychedelicArena Shooter

Census log

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

Recent updates

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