Irony Of Nightmare
Fair · Short indie · 2017 · Early Access
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.6h 0.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.32/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 707 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.39 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
In the Irony of Nightmare things aren't always as they seem. Those who decide to solve all puzzles of the game, not only will unravel true secret of house, but also will open completely different ending of the story.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 74 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 51 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mists of Aiden ($6.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats >observer_ ($2.99, scores 54).
More about Irony Of Nightmare
Steam's global achievement data puts 60 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 350 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 550 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 89 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
85% start to 60% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Irony Of Nightmare is not very scary and the English translation is not very good, however I did enjoy going around looking for keys and solving the (very few) puzzles, so for a dollar (or even less on sale) I feel like the game is decent enough to warrant a thumbs up (even if it can be beat in less than an hour).
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Was recommended to play this right after I finished Crimson Snow. Certainly feels like a "first game" but is well polished! Some puzzles were a little less obvious/lacking hints, so I let my chat backseat and help me out. Outside of that, like I said, was pretty well polished, good performance, uneasy atmosphere, solid jumpscares. Can't beat the price point either!
Password needed to complete the game is displayed incorrectly in the current release. Impossible to complete without a walkthrough.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Irony Of Nightmare scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/740290/irony-of-nightmareReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.