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YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- cover art

YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-

KADOKAWA CORPORATION · PLAYISM · 2018-02-22

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 21, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 22, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...

1
playing now
70%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
61/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
3.6h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

Yume Nikki: Dream Diary is a 2018 horror-themed adventure game developed by Kadokawa Games and published by Playism. It is a reboot of the 2004 indie game Yume Nikki and was produced with supervision from the original game's creator, Kikiyama. The game borrows basic elements, such as some abandoned design concepts, from its predecessor, but also contains significant changes. As in Yume Nikki, the player controls a girl named Madotsuki from a third-person perspective and explores worlds inside her dreams. Dream Diary adds platforming and puzzle gameplay, and the game is rendered in 3D.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 38k–91k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,516 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2019-10-14) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 8 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-07 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.992018-02-232026-08-232018-02-23 — best price $19.992018-09-19 — best price $11.992018-11-21 — best price $9.992019-01-10 — best price $9.992019-02-12 — best price $19.992019-05-06 — best price $19.992019-06-03 — best price $19.992019-08-15 — best price $7.992019-10-14 — best price $3.992019-11-12 — best price $19.992020-01-02 — best price $19.992020-02-17 — best price $19.992020-03-16 — best price $7.992020-05-06 — best price $19.992020-06-25 — best price $7.992020-11-09 — best price $19.992021-02-11 — best price $5.992021-05-06 — best price $19.992021-06-24 — best price $3.992021-10-04 — best price $19.992021-11-24 — best price $7.992022-02-03 — best price $19.992022-09-12 — best price $3.992022-12-10 — best price $19.992023-01-16 — best price $3.992023-05-27 — best price $19.992023-10-26 — best price $3.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-08-07 — best price $3.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-22 — best price $3.992025-06-04 — best price $19.992026-01-17 — best price $3.992026-05-24 — best price $19.992026-08-23 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

228342026-05-30 — 61 pageviews2026-06-02 — 52 pageviews2026-06-05 — 61 pageviews2026-06-08 — 53 pageviews2026-06-11 — 34 pageviews2026-06-14 — 57 pageviews2026-06-17 — 70 pageviews2026-06-20 — 37 pageviews2026-06-23 — 56 pageviews2026-06-26 — 72 pageviews2026-06-29 — 73 pageviews2026-07-02 — 77 pageviews2026-07-05 — 88 pageviews2026-07-08 — 63 pageviews2026-07-11 — 71 pageviews2026-07-14 — 63 pageviews2026-07-17 — 85 pageviews2026-07-20 — 75 pageviews2026-07-23 — 67 pageviews2026-07-26 — 71 pageviews2026-07-29 — 60 pageviews2026-08-01 — 59 pageviews2026-08-04 — 62 pageviews2026-08-07 — 53 pageviews2026-08-10 — 108 pageviews2026-08-13 — 70 pageviews2026-08-16 — 74 pageviews2026-08-19 — 48 pageviews2026-08-22 — 60 pageviews2026-08-25 — 58 pageviews2026-08-27 — 49 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
86.5%
earned "Was it... just a dream?"
35.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,08818%23
Switch (Nintendo)150%0

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

Player tags

2.5DCuteAnimeActionHorrorPuzzleStealthSurrealPlatformerStory Rich

Census log

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

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