False Dream
Worth it · Short indie · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99, a BANGER if it drops to $1.32.
- Length
- 0.5h 2.1h to 100%
- Value
- $3.98/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 496 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.32 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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
You find yourself trapped in a dream. If you capture anomalies in the dream with a camera, you might be able to escape.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 4GB VRAM, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 6 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 10 percent, about 13 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $1.32. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dollmare ($4.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Anomaly Exit ($5.99, scores 73).
More about False Dream
This site sampled 315 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 150 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.5 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 4.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
75% start to 33% 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
What players say
Can't believe it has taken me so long to review this game, but honestly, 10/10 anomaly horror game. The scares are amazing, the atmosphere fantastic, and it's not inherently too difficult or too easy. I would like to consider it a nice balance and that is incredible for a horror game. Absolutely worth it especially for the price!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
False Dream scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2753720/false-dreamReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.