The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Fair · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Windows only.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Narrative game (about 5 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.79, set in May 2017. It has been discounted 116 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Papetura ($4.07, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Samorost 2 ($4.99, scores 61).
The press gave it 75; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. 1 of the 369 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
24% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 22:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 5 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/94300/the-dream-machine-chapter-1-2Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Oct 1.
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