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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“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“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 playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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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
Bug Fixes - v1.2.1d
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Hotfixes - v1.2.1c
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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.
| Genres | Action, Indie |
| Player tags | Action Roguelike · Hack and Slash · Difficult · Replay Value · Pixel Graphics · Rogue-lite · Rogue-like · Souls-like · Metroidvania · Platformer · 2D · Controller (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 106 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
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