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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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 count fetched 2026-07-11 12:49 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest 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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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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