Oneiros
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3h 3.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 306 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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
Will you be able to break the vicious circle? Can you regain control? Experience the surreal adventure filled with many puzzles and psychedelic visions.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 840M or Radeon R7 M260, 3.2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
56 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 87 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 The Search ($3.99, scores 30).
More about Oneiros
None of the 280 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
39% 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
What players say
Oneiros, developed and published by Coal Valley Games, is a surreal first-person adventure that unfolds like a lucid dream caught between waking life and subconscious turmoil. The game follows Liam, a young man who wakes up to find himself trapped inside his own mind, surrounded by distorted memories, impossible architecture, and objects that seem to possess a life of their own. What begins as a simple escape-room...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Unsatisfying ending. That aside, I had a great time collecting bits and putting them all together. I think the game really shines in the 3rd and 1st act. A bit escape room, a bit point n click. I liked the story, but it really falls short at the end. It's just.... over. Maybe that's what they where going for but a little more would have been nice. All and all, if you're into narrative escape point n click games...
The game suffers from poor performance due to locked framerate to 60FPS and forced VSYNC. Basically no graphics settings. You play as a very annoying main character that talks to himself all the time with pretty cringy tone of voice. The puzzles are very subpar. They usually require you to interact with every single item in the room, no real challenge, just tedious and boring. The first "platforming" level with...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Oneiros scores 62/100 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/869170/oneirosReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.