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The Boogie Man
"You are the player, and must chase the Boogie Man. If you catch him, you win! And that's the happy ending, but if you don't..." This is the third title in the Strange Man series. Keith tours a castle with his wife, Helena. Sit back, and enjoy tonight's entertainment: A horrific display of murder.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“there is an oingo boingo reference so it automatically gets a 10/10 score from me.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Probably my second favorite entry in this series. I really like the plot and how the gameplay is structured, even though the puzzles were pretty hard to figure out sometimes (they are not intuitive at all, most of the time). I really liked how it connected all the characters…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Confusing ahh game Other games in the series are better”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 22:16 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
New Patch Update
Dear Fans, Thank you for playing THE BOOGIE MAN. The following changes have been made in this patch. Changed some fonts. Thank you for your continued support!
New Patch Update
Dear Fans, Thank you for playing THE BOOGIE MAN. The following changes have been made in this patch. Fixed minor bugs. Thank you for your continued support!
New Patch Update
Dear Fans, Thank you for playing THE BOOGIE MAN. The following changes have been made in this patch. Fixed minor bugs . Thank you for your continued support!
[THE HANGED MAN] Chinese language support update and the commemorative sale!
To all of our fans, Thank you for playing The BOOGIE Man. We are pleased to announce that we have added Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese to the supported languages for The Hanged Man, the fi
New Patch Update
Dear Fans, Thank you for playing THE BOOGIE MAN. The following changes have been made in this patch. Changed the processing of staff credits. Thank you for your continued support!
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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 | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Indie · Horror · Casual · Pixel Graphics · Dark · RPGMaker · Singleplayer · 2D · Anime · Atmospheric · Story Rich (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean * |
| Achievements | 28 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or Greater Processor: Intel Core 2 1.06Ghz Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated graphics DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 200 MB available space