Picayune Dreams
BANGER · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2023.
- Length
- 6.9h
- Value
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews
- 99% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 33% ($3.34)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($2.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Windows only.
Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival, and bullet hell gameplay. Adrift across the endless void, you must fend off thousands of nightmarish and otherwordly creatures. Uncover a mysterious and surreal story. And don't forget. You mu [TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED...]
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
October 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 21 in the 3 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 85 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. The nearest things to it, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor ($12.99, scores 63) and Star of Providence ($14.99, scores 84), are both worse buys on this math.
2 of the 343 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 355 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 28, 4.1 times as much.
The drop-off
100% start to 45% 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
Players
27 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 03:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
the soundtrack is double the cost of the game, so I recommend you buy this instaed cuz it's cheaper!
This game has creepypasta haunted video game cutscenes. And it absolutely rules.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Picayune Dreams scores 86/100 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/2088840/picayune-dreamsReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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