Bad Dream: Fever
Fair · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 3.7h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The world is covered in strange ink, an unknown plague has gathered its cruel harvest. The city seems to be completely empty and dead, but in its every corner there are manifestations of fear, sorrow, loneliness and suffering.
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
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 75 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bad Dream: Coma ($8.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Fingerbones (free, scores 52).
1 players were online in it when we last checked, on Oct 1, 14:50 UTC.
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 14:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I owe this game a review and an apology. The first time I played it I didn't really like it. Too much handholding, and an inability to pick up items until they were needed, resulted in pixel hunting every location after every new task given by the main character. Unfortunately, this made the first half of the game feel really slow and boringly linear. There's also an annoyingly lot of whining from The Author, whom I...
It's okay. Maybe I'm too late to the party and have played too many meta games? Maybe the writing is just kind of bad? Hard to say which is more true, probably a bit of both. Either way, it shares the same frustrations I had with Coma - the puzzles are cumbersome to get through and just not very fun - but without the branching options and more engaging story. That being said, I enjoy the art style and atmosphere...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Bad Dream: Fever scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/769970/bad-dream-feverReviews 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 27.
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