Dream Ending
BANGER · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.35.
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $1.02/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
This is a small tale from the end. The leftovers of mankind are destined to perish as the Arks break orbit. Suddenly, however, she's making me ask her out, an invitation to face the apocalypse together... a short but exquisite visual novel, "Dream Ending" is humanity's last love story.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.35. It has been discounted 72 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77) and The Lar (free, scores 81), are both worse buys on this math.
The math says it holds its tier up to $7.56, and you are being asked for $2.35.
Steam's global achievement data puts 84 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 387 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 566 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
2.3 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
At 2.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
84% start to 84% 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
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 10:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A compact after dinner dessert, yet it delivers a genuinely heartfelt emotional punch. Though there are plenty of regrets not fixed even by the side stories, this doesnt ruin its standing as a good work.
Incredible, simply incredible. It actually surprises me how much this game is underrated. The setting, characters, story, development, everything is great. The ending is sort of bittersweet, but very remarkable, something you won't ever forget. It mixes up aspects of philosophy, making you understand views that society normally leaves behind or does not give much attention. For that, I thank this game for making me...
Fairly nice second entry of the trilogy! The premise reminds me of the VN "Companion", yet the general vibes still rather resemble "Tiny Snow", except I actually perceived this one to be a lot less dark despite the tragic setting lol. I really like the concept and while the world-building and lore aren't as much in focus as I would've desired, the writing still manages to give a great impression of the events. Like...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dream Ending scores 99/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/944020/dream-endingReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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