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Dreaming Sarah

Dreaming Sarah

Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!

Released Mar 12, 2015 Developer Asteristic Game Studio, Anthony Septim Publisher Asteristic Game Studio Platforms Windows · Linux MetroidvaniaPuzzle-PlatformerCasualExplorationPlatformer
View on Steam ↗ $1.79 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

90.8%positive2,808 reviews
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“Dreaming Sarah is one of the best indie games I've played with beautiful music, endearing sprite art, and is very upfront about what it's about. The description of the game is basically what you get. I'd highly suggest buying it as it's cheap and I believe you might enjoy it if…”

— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Dreaming Sarah is a short but charming surreal platformer that nails the dreamlike atmosphere with beautiful pixel art and a genuinely great soundtrack that comes free with the game. It wears its Yume Nikki inspiration on its sleeve — looping levels, strange items, and a quiet…”

— a player, Steam review · 32 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Might be the most confusing game i've ever played, i just go left and right and it works”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

22achievements
13.4%median completion
12.0%rarest: Secret 1
22.3% of players 21.4% of players 21.0% of players 19.5% of players 16.9% of players 16.1% of players 15.6% of players 15.4% of players 15.0% of players 14.4% of players 13.8% of players 13.4% of players 13.2% of players 13.2% of players 13.1% of players 13.1% of players 12.9% of players 12.4% of players 12.2% of players 12.2% of players 12.0% of players 12.0% of players 22.3% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
22.3%Umbrella — Find the umbrella.
21.4%Hat — Find the hat.
21.0%Bag of seeds — Find the bag of seeds.
Rarest badges of honor
12.0%Secret 1 — Shrink the eye.
12.0%The end — Finish the game.
12.2%Secret 5 — Help the pianist.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$1.79−70% right nowcurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$5.99base price
$1.79lowest since tracking began2026-07-22
US1.79 USD−70%
EU1.49 EUR−70%
UK1.43 GBP−70%
Australia2.55 AUD−70%
Canada1.94 CAD−70%
Japan179 JPY−70%
Brazil1.79 BRL−70%
China7.50 CNY−70%

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$0.4 Japan China Canada EU Australia US UK≈$1.9

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $5 $10 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 30, 2025
Awakening Sarah OST free DLC now available!

(image says "ONLY THE BEST!", this is usually written on brazilian music compilation cds lol)The Original Soundtrack for Awakening Sarah is now available for free. This OST contains songs by Anthony S

Jun 05, 2025
Awakening Sarah is now available

Awakening Sarah has been fully released! Check it out by clicking here.

Jul 25, 2023
Awakening Sarah Steam page up + Demo Available!

Hi everyone, how have you all been? It's been a long, long time since I posted any news here. These past few years I've had to stop development on Awakening Sarah to focus on other projects, but this

Sep 28, 2020
Update 1.9.1

Hi again! This update fixes some bugs you've reported on the last announcement. ːsarahː Here's a list: Fixed a issue where changing the volume for the music wouldn't affect it Fixed an issue where the

Sep 09, 2020
New version - 1.9

Hi everyone. I've updated the game with a TON of bugfixes and some art asset changes. This will mainly fix softlocking bugs. There's still bound to be a bug here and there due to the age of this game

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAdventure, Casual, Indie
Player tagsMetroidvania · Puzzle-Platformer · Casual · Exploration · Platformer · Female Protagonist · Walking Simulator · 2D · Surreal · Relaxing · Puzzle · Pixel Graphics (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish - Spain, French
ControllerFull support
Achievements22
Estimated owners200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttp://asteristic.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 200 MB available space