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Yume Nikki
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
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 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
41 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“While this game [i]technically[/i] provides the player with a goal (collecting Effects) and has an ending sequence, Yume Nikki is definitely a game I have no intention of "finishing". I love to open it up every couple…”
“wonderful little world and very interesting to dissect on your own but every time i got chased by the torinigens i started sweating”
“you don't just drop an incredibly influential game and completely disappear off the internet for the next few decades. anyways this game is pretty good, visuals made me felt like i was high.”
21 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“Yume Nikki, created by the elusive developer Kikiyama and later brought to a wider audience through its release on Steam by PLAYISM, stands as one of the most distinctive and quietly influential works to emerge from the…”
“Yume Nikki is a 20+ year old mysterious internet phenomenon in the psychological category. I played a chunk of it for the first time many moons ago, downloaded off some shady website; and highly appreciated the…”
“*CHIPTENDO'S STEAM MUNK REVIEWS 2* If you know anything about me, you know I love this game. I consider it to be one of the best games I have ever played and a personal top 5 favorite. I've explained in quite length in…”
8 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“8-bit walking simulator. This is probably one of the earliest games to explore the genre of weirdcore/dreamcore. There's a lot of psychological elements. I didn't realize how mainstream the music was. If you're a UT/DR…”
“wonderful little world and very interesting to dissect on your own but every time i got chased by the torinigens i started sweating”
“real men cried at the ending scene + rep good music, good game, good dreams”
7 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“real men cried at the ending scene + rep good music, good game, good dreams”
“amazing game. it felt so surreal, obscure and exciting going throughout the different dream worlds. some felt comforting, others disturbing. personally i loved the snow world, it felt comforting to be in with the music…”
“words cannot express how much i LOVE this game it is one of my biggest inspirations for my art to this day!! and its so simplistic yet so effective and good. the atmosphere is great and extremely accuarate to how dreams…”
6 of the 102 reviews raise this.
“While this game [i]technically[/i] provides the player with a goal (collecting Effects) and has an ending sequence, Yume Nikki is definitely a game I have no intention of "finishing". I love to open it up every couple…”
“this game is something you just have to play for yourself, don't lookup anything and don't watch a playthrough just play it”
“not even halfway through the game yet and i already wanna erase my memory and play it again”
10 of the 102 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“I’ve never understood the hype around this game. Yume Nikki feels less like an actual game and more like aimless wandering - there’s no real story, no dialogue, and no meaningful gameplay, so most of the time you’re…”
“words cannot express how much i LOVE this game it is one of my biggest inspirations for my art to this day!! and its so simplistic yet so effective and good. the atmosphere is great and extremely accuarate to how dreams…”
“The gameplay is good at first but eventually it gest boring as u spend 15mins in the same room just walking around. The story is 99% up to interpretation which is good when u look back at it and want to make your…”
7 of the 102 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“A beautiful experience. I encourage anyone who plays this to go into it without looking up any information about it online. I know that it is almost impossible to avoid, as the game is incredibly old, but just try…”
“The game's music is wonderful and it has such an unique ambience. It takes a long time to beat and a guide is pretty much necessary but mindlessly exploring the levels and how they intertwine is very fun.”
“This game has been nonstop on my mind to beat but this is not a must play I had to lookup a guide for this and even then there are couple instances that are by chance to happen one is the bed instance depending if you…”
6 of the 102 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“I’ve never understood the hype around this game. Yume Nikki feels less like an actual game and more like aimless wandering - there’s no real story, no dialogue, and no meaningful gameplay, so most of the time you’re…”
“amazing game. it felt so surreal, obscure and exciting going throughout the different dream worlds. some felt comforting, others disturbing. personally i loved the snow world, it felt comforting to be in with the music…”
“The gameplay is good at first but eventually it gest boring as u spend 15mins in the same room just walking around. The story is 99% up to interpretation which is good when u look back at it and want to make your…”
Counted across 102 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 94.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“One of those games I have a long history with—and I often wonder whether I would love it just as much if I played it for the first time today. Growing up in the early 2000s in a Slavic country, piracy was (and still is, to be fair) extremely common: bootleg consoles, pirated…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“Yume Nikki is not a game. And I don't mean that in the "It's not a game, it's an experience." No it is literally not a game. There is no objective, there is no progression, there is nothing that actually makes a video game. Yume Nikki is a psychedelic dream sequence and a…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“yume nikki spelled backwards is not eeffoc, which is not funny because until i've had my yume nikki absolutely peak game i must have played it for hundreds of hours outside of steam”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Indie · Free to Play · RPGMaker · Psychological Horror · Surreal · Exploration · Pixel Graphics · Horror · Walking Simulator · Atmospheric · Psychological · Female Protagonist (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Japanese |
| Official site | http://www3.nns.ne.jp/pri/tk-mto/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 2000 / XP / vista / 7 Processor: MMX Pentium(R)200MHz（Pentium(R)II450MHz or above recommended） Memory: 32 MB RAM