Nightmare Visions Chapter 1

Nightmare Visions Chapter 1

Q13Games LLC · 2025 · Casual, Interactive Fiction, Walking Simulator, Immersive Sim, First-Person

PC
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About Nightmare Visions Chapter 1

Nightmare Visions: Chapter 1 is not a traditional horror game.There are no save files.
No skip buttons.This is a narrative horror experience, not a survival challenge.
You’re not here to escape. You’re here to witness.

Developed entirely by one person, not a team, in 1 Month as a Challenge.
If you're expecting a AAA horror game, you’re in the wrong place.

If you're ready for something different, press play.

Chapter One introduces the beginning of the Nightmare Visions anthology. Each chapter explores a new character, a new setting, and a new psychological thread woven into the same unnerving universe.



Story





This is not a game of combat or escape. It is a slow-burning descent into an atmosphere of unease, where story and tension unfold through exploration and observation. Every object, every symbol, and every shadowed corner tells a part of a larger, unsettling truth.

Game Features:
-First Person Walking Simulator
-VHS Effects
-Puzzles and Cryptic Messages

Total Playtime:
20-30 Minutes

Future:


Chapter One is available now for free. Chapter Two is currently in development.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Mar 31, 2026
This game was really bad. The voice acting is so bad it's not even comical, it's just cringy. The gameplay is just a series of finding keys. The worst part though. The absolute worst... is that you can't MOVE when he's TALKING. And after everything there's a long drawn out voice line that freezes the game and makes it utterly unplayable. On another note, the game runs like crap even on a powerful computer.
Not recommended Feb 9, 2026
i don't really like Grainy film games and at the end the Ai was stuck and had to walk up to it to end the game. this game was ok at best.
Recommended Nov 30, 2025
You know, I gotta be real here. This is very clunky stuff, and the aliens go from being kind of spooky with decent atmosphere to absolutely hilarious as soon as you actually see them, but I think that's what actually makes me like it in the end. I've played so many indie horror games and demos by now and in the grand scheme this one is free, entertains (if not scares) and presents some weird potential for sequels. If you go in expecting a clunky and corny time you'll have fun. Recommended.
Not recommended Nov 3, 2025
Not good. Graphics are harsh on the eyes with the vhs filter, and the story makes next to no sense with how it unfolds. Gameplay is basically find note telling where key is -> go find key -> open door -> repeat 6 times. Also, standing near a key creates this ABSOLUTELY INSANE distortion effect that both blinds you and makes it so you cant see anything. Oh and there is AI slop artwork everywhere in the game.
Not recommended Sep 1, 2025
"Nightmare Visions Chapter 1" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Nightmare Visions" (well, the additional chapters, which haven't even been made yet). Nightmare Visions is a basic, badly done asset flip, and this advertisement for it was slapped together as a "challenge" in an insufficient time to make a game properly, and published on Steam to advertise the next (presumably laughably expensive) chapters. And as a "game", it's shaping up to be awful, your usual run of the mill asset flipped first person horror adventure, except interactive gameplay was too hard for the developer so the series is going to be more like a basic, linear walking sim. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Nightmare Visions, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, …
Not recommended Aug 25, 2025
was too confusing and i didnt like it

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