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The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 cover art

The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2

Cockroach Inc. · The Sleeping Machine · 2012-05-11

SteamGOG

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 11, 2012 (Mac), May 11, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.

3
playing now
87%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
IGDB user rating (20 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

The Dream Machine is an episodic point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Cockroach Inc. Its main themes are dreams and voyeurism. The game was built by hand, using materials such as clay and cardboard. The Dream Machine consists of six chapters released between December 2010 and May 2017. It was nominated for an Independent Games Festival Visual Excellence award in 2011. The game is available on Windows and Mac OS X.

Health check

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  • · Top 20% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 90k–180k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,244 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2017-05-08) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 20 of 23 observed days · $4.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-06 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$8.98$0.992015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-08-31 — best price $2.492015-12-22 — best price $2.492016-04-04 — best price $3.992016-08-08 — best price $3.992016-11-29 — best price $3.992017-02-13 — best price $3.992017-08-07 — best price $3.992017-11-28 — best price $3.992018-02-19 — best price $3.992018-07-30 — best price $3.992018-11-27 — best price $3.992019-02-11 — best price $3.992019-06-26 — best price $8.982019-10-28 — best price $0.992020-02-10 — best price $0.992020-03-30 — best price $0.992020-05-12 — best price $3.592020-07-09 — best price $3.992020-11-02 — best price $3.992021-02-01 — best price $3.992021-07-08 — best price $3.992021-11-01 — best price $3.992022-01-05 — best price $3.992022-05-23 — best price $3.992022-09-26 — best price $3.992023-01-05 — best price $3.992023-03-23 — best price $3.992023-07-13 — best price $3.992023-11-02 — best price $3.992024-02-12 — best price $3.992024-07-11 — best price $3.992024-12-04 — best price $3.992025-03-10 — best price $3.992025-06-02 — best price $3.992025-09-08 — best price $3.992025-12-15 — best price $3.992026-03-26 — best price $3.992026-08-03 — best price $3.992026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

7122026-05-31 — 11 pageviews2026-06-03 — 9 pageviews2026-06-06 — 4 pageviews2026-06-09 — 8 pageviews2026-06-12 — 5 pageviews2026-06-15 — 12 pageviews2026-06-18 — 7 pageviews2026-06-21 — 12 pageviews2026-06-24 — 6 pageviews2026-06-27 — 8 pageviews2026-06-30 — 6 pageviews2026-07-03 — 11 pageviews2026-07-06 — 15 pageviews2026-07-09 — 12 pageviews2026-07-12 — 38 pageviews2026-07-15 — 13 pageviews2026-07-18 — 12 pageviews2026-07-21 — 8 pageviews2026-07-24 — 11 pageviews2026-07-27 — 8 pageviews2026-07-30 — 2 pageviews2026-08-02 — 12 pageviews2026-08-05 — 15 pageviews2026-08-08 — 24 pageviews2026-08-11 — 6 pageviews2026-08-14 — 11 pageviews2026-08-17 — 12 pageviews2026-08-20 — 15 pageviews2026-08-23 — 9 pageviews2026-08-26 — 10 pageviews2026-08-27 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

46
achievements tracked
24.4%
earned "Island Life"
7.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsMouse Only OptionNarrated Game MenusPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeStereo Sound5 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DDarkHorrorPuzzleSurrealAdventureNarrativeHand-drawnStory RichExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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