Yume Nikki

Yume Nikki

BANGER · Narrative · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

A BANGER, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
ReviewsS
94% of 10,742
Genre rank
Top 1% Narrative

Time and effort

Main story
5h
To 100%
6.6h 1.3x the story

Players and genre

Online
48 now
Recent reviews
92% 30 days
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Supper (free, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Dark Fracture: Prologue (free, scores 60).

It is still busy. 48 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 8, 00:46 UTC, across 42 days of weekly checks.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 31 MB of memory. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Yume Nikki scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/650700/yume-nikki
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Reviews 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 Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

Developerkikiyama
PublisherPLAYISM
GenreNarrative
Released2018
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate