Dreaming Sarah
Worth it · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.59, set in September 2015. 109 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Hue ($2.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Toki Tori 2+ ($14.99, scores 58).
Steam's global achievement data says about 12 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 3 of the 388 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 673 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
At 2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
22% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Cute game, it's simple but charming in its own way. Definitely inspired by Yume Nikki and other games (there are a couple of small citations to other games and things), but it has its own structure and narration. Not super polished and there are some minor glitches (I had to close/reopen the game once because I couldn't progress, but nothing save-breaking as far as I can tell), but it's fine overall. Short and very...
Might be the most confusing game i've ever played, i just go left and right and it works
Dreaming Sarah is one of the best indie games I've played with beautiful music, endearing sprite art, and is very upfront about what it's about. The description of the game is basically what you get. I'd highly suggest buying it as it's cheap and I believe you might enjoy it if you just immerse yourself in the weirdness of the dream.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Dreaming Sarah scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/296870/dreaming-sarahThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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