The Game Census
The Nightmare cover art

The Nightmare

Leakage Games · 2020-08-05

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 05, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Nightmare is a first-person horror game. Dive into the nightmare and try to get rid of that nightmare...

48%
positive of 77 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 33,938 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 77 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.28 at Steam (2022-11-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620202026Week of 2020-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.99$0.282020-08-052026-09-082020-08-05 — best price $0.992020-10-31 — best price $0.542020-12-01 — best price $0.992021-01-25 — best price $0.542021-02-15 — best price $0.992021-05-31 — best price $0.542021-07-08 — best price $0.992021-11-24 — best price $0.542022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-02-14 — best price $0.542022-04-11 — best price $0.992022-06-20 — best price $0.502022-07-25 — best price $0.502022-09-05 — best price $0.992022-11-07 — best price $0.292022-11-29 — best price $0.992022-12-22 — best price $0.282023-01-25 — best price $0.992023-03-16 — best price $0.282023-04-10 — best price $0.992023-07-29 — best price $0.282023-09-25 — best price $0.992023-11-21 — best price $0.492024-01-04 — best price $0.992024-03-04 — best price $0.492024-03-21 — best price $0.992024-06-03 — best price $0.492024-07-11 — best price $0.992024-08-21 — best price $0.492024-10-22 — best price $0.992024-12-20 — best price $0.492025-01-28 — best price $0.992025-06-26 — best price $0.492025-09-21 — best price $0.992025-10-27 — best price $0.492026-01-30 — best price $0.992026-08-25 — best price $0.492026-09-08 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DIndieCasualHorrorPuzzleNarrationExplorationFirst-PersonSingleplayerPsychological Horror

Census log

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

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