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Nightmare: The Lunatic

Nightmare: The Lunatic

Nightmare: The Lunatic is a parrying action rogue-lite platformer game about escaping a nightmare. Constantly swap between 3 weapons, use special attacks, and avoid and parry enemy attacks. Strengthen yourself by collecting powerful and unique totems.

Released Mar 31, 2024 Developer Maetdol Games Platforms Windows Action RoguelikeHack and SlashDifficultReplay ValuePixel Graphics
View on Steam ↗ $16.99 (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.

89.3%positive270 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Nightmare: The Lunatic, developed and published by Maetdol Games, is a kinetic action roguelite that leans heavily into speed, adaptability, and a looping sense of progression that mirrors its dreamlike premise. Set within a distorted nightmare world where each failure resets…”

— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Fun game, lots of variation in combat and combat is really diverse aswell, a lot of different playstyles possible.”

— a player, Steam review · 27 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 2026-09-19.

106achievements
11.4%median completion
0.4%rarest: Knows Everything
90.1% of players 85.7% of players 68.6% of players 64.6% of players 63.6% of players 60.4% of players 55.2% of players 50.2% of players 48.8% of players 48.0% of players 46.7% of players 44.9% of players 35.7% of players 35.7% of players 35.5% of players 35.3% of players 35.1% of players 32.5% of players 32.3% of players 32.0% of players 31.8% of players 30.1% of players 28.0% of players 27.6% of players 27.1% of players 23.3% of players 23.3% of players 23.1% of players 23.1% of players 22.2% of players 21.5% of players 20.9% of players 20.8% of players 20.3% of players 19.6% of players 19.6% of players 19.1% of players 18.7% of players 18.4% of players 17.1% of players 16.8% of players 16.8% of players 16.7% of players 16.5% of players 16.5% of players 16.3% of players 15.9% of players 15.4% of players 15.3% of players 14.1% of players 13.2% of players 12.7% of players 12.2% of players 11.4% of players 11.0% of players 10.9% of players 9.6% of players 9.6% of players 9.4% of players 9.3% of players 90.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
90.1%Nightmare Visitor — Meet Dream Merchant.
85.7%Ready to Go! — Complete the tutorial.
68.6%Blight Slayer — Kill Lupus.
Rarest badges of honor
0.4%Knows Everything — Complete all collections!
0.5%'Much' Faster Than Light — Escape the Nightmare in 22 min 30 sec.
0.5%Conqueror of the Nightmare — Escape the Nightmare unharmed.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$16.99current · sampled 2026-09-25 21:36 UTC
$16.99lowest since tracking began2026-08-12
US16.99 USD
EU16.49 EUR
UK14.29 GBP
Australia24.95 AUD
Canada21.99 CAD
Japan1,900 JPY
Brazil52.49 BRL
China66.00 CNY

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

China≈$9.8 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$19

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 08-12 08-21 08-30 09-08 09-16 09-25

Latest official news

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

Oct 08, 2025
Swamp Keeper is now available!

Our new title, Swamp Keeper , has just been released on Steam! 🚩Become a small lizard swamp keeper and defend the marsh from the invading army of the Ho Kingdom. 🏹Assemble your own arrows and choose y

Jun 10, 2025
Swamp Keeper is now featured in Steam Next Fest!

Hello, this is Maetdol Games. Our upcoming title, Swamp Keeper , is now featured in Steam Next Fest ! Swamp Keeper is a Korean-style bow action shooting game, inspired by one-shot one-kill arena shoot

May 02, 2025
Future Development

Hello, this is Maetdol Games. Thank you to everyone who has played Nightmare: The Lunatic! At the moment, we are focusing on the development of a new title, and as a result, the update schedule for Ni

Mar 12, 2025
Bug Fixes - v1.2.1d

Hello, this is Maetdol Games. Here are the details for v1.2.1d bug fixes. *Bug Fixes Fixed the issue where, if Blessing: Archangel's Blessing and Curse: Mysterious Curse were activated simultaneously,

Jan 16, 2025
Hotfixes - v1.2.1c

Hello, this is Maetdol Games. Here are the details for v1.2.1 ~ v1.2.1c hotfixes. *Fixes v1.2.1c Fixed an issue where The Nightmare would sometimes not struggle, causing the game to become unprogressa

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.

GenresAction, Indie
Player tagsAction Roguelike · Hack and Slash · Difficult · Replay Value · Pixel Graphics · Rogue-lite · Rogue-like · Souls-like · Metroidvania · Platformer · 2D · Controller (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesKorean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil
ControllerFull support
Achievements106
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: windows 7, 8, 10 Processor: 2 GHz Processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Shader version 2.0 capable video card DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space