Insomnia: Theater in the Head
BANGER · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.49.
- Length
- 0.8h
- Value
- $3.11/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($1.61)
- Last discount ended
- 36 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Hickory dickory dock. The city's deep in sleep. The clock's ticking. The sheep's bouncing. Hickory dickory dock. The girl tosses again, only with more things swarming into her head... In this Point & Click puzzle game "Insomnia", the show in the head is rolling on again. Alas, any sleep tonight...
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.61, set in September 2025. 33 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Children of Silentown ($19.99, scores 52) and Fran Bow ($14.99, scores 83).
This site sampled 384 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 2,606 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 91 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 29% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 22:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A Beautiful artwork with a good story and amazing ost I love the color pattern + easy puzzle + Annoying elf that will make you remember your embrassing thing you did in your middle school i can't get over with how good this game looks 11/10 recommended for everyone
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Insomnia: Theater in the Head scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2085360/insomnia-theater-in-the-headReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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