Nightmare: The Lunatic
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $8.50/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 273 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $6.79 (60% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Shader version 2.0 capable video card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
17 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 34 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Cells ($24.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Foregone ($19.99, scores 53).
More about Nightmare: The Lunatic
This site sampled 226 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
90% start to 35% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Edit: still gonna leave TU, but I gotta say after getting to Nightmare 1 difficulty - things start turning sour. Without spoiling much, the number of enemies and stuff happening on screen increases so much that even in the second level you start getting hit and it just doesn't feel like its your fault - which is incredibly frustrating. Game compensates with generous healing totems and other stuff (enemies deal about...
2 more reviews
Slightly less good version of "Skull the hero slayer" and that game was a 10/10. Some cool game-breaking combos to discover, tons of content including endgame, and a blast to play. Deserves more love than it's gotten!
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 the cycle, the game builds its appeal around repetition that feels purposeful rather than punishing. While the foundation may be familiar to...
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Cite this score
Nightmare: The Lunatic scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1842730/nightmare-the-lunaticReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.