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Without a Dawn
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Another game by Jesse Makkonen who is behind the two DISTRAINT titles (and many others but I played only this series). If you had the chance of playing any of his titles then you know what you are about to see is something visually stunning with minimalistic graphics and also…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Short visual novel with ASCII art graphics. The story is basically a creepypasta that takes about half an hour to read. The game has choices but they don't seem to really matter, they are there just for extra text.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“I went back and forth on this for a long time which is why I think Steam should implement a middle option other than "its good" or "its bad". Pros: Art style was great and very unique How it handled mental illness and "inner demons" (for lack of a better term) was great Overall…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement 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.
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Latest official news
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Without a Dawn Korean Localization Now Available!
Thanks to Kim Tae-yi, Without a Dawn is now available in Korean! 😍 [img src="
One Year Anniversary
Today marks exactly one year since I released Without a Dawn. That means Without a Dawn is now one year old! I'm offering 50% off on Steam to celebrate! 🥳🎈
Without a Dawn is now also available on consoles! 🔥
I’ve teamed up with Clickteam (all my games are created with Clickteam Fusion), and they ported and published Without a Dawn to PlayStation, Switch, and Xbox. That said, Without a Dawn is now availabl
Localizations: Ukrainian and Russian!
Thanks to volunteers, Without a Dawn now supports Ukrainian and Russian! 🥳
Localizations: Japanese, German, and Hungarian!
Thanks to some of the kindest people, Without a Dawn now supports Japanese, German, and Hungarian! 🥰
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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.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Visual Novel · Psychological Horror · Philosophical · Singleplayer · Story Rich · Atmospheric · Moddable · Female Protagonist · Emotional · Realistic · Mystery · Horror (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Camera Comfort · Color Alternatives · Keyboard Only Option · Mouse Only Option · Playable without Timed Input |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 10 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://jessemakkonen.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or later Processor: Dual Core 2.0 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 512 MB card capable of shader 3.0 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 100 MB available space Sound Card: DirectX 9c Compliant