YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
Skip · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 19, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.4h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT 630 / 650m; AMD Radeon HD6570; HD Graphics 4000 (or equivalent), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was October 2019. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 71 in the 9 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 71 percent. On the same math Moss VR ($19.99, scores 57) and Webbed ($9.99, scores 83) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The press gave it 51; the people who bought it give it 70 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 474 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 238 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.4 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 2.0 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
87% start to 10% 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
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 21:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Sweet dreams It's been a while since I first got hooked on the original Yume Nikki game, and I've finally stumbled upon this version. It was a nice immersion into a world of childhood nostalgia, gloomy days outside the window and the warm light of a small lamp at a table covered in pencil drawings. Some of the characters and locations were something new and unusual. This can hardly be called a remake, moreover...
It's important to note two things. This game doesn't feel like Yume Nikki, which is far from being a bad thing. YumeNikki -Dream Diary- feels like a game of its own, different. Taking clear reference, ideas and concepts from the original Yume Nikki and showing us its own interpretation and perspective. If you play this game thinking its a remaster, you will be disappointed, hence the multiple bad reviews. With both...
YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- is a strange game to have made out of Yume Nikki. The original worked because there was almost nothing between you and the dream. You walked somewhere, found something that shouldn't be there, and kept walking. Dream Diary takes that and adds platforming, puzzles, stealth sections, invisible walls, and several occasions where the dream apparently requires a level designer. The environments...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- scores 19/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/774811/yumenikki-dream-diaryReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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