Somniphobia

Somniphobia

Ethan Harris-Austin · 2021 · Puzzle, Point & Click, Female Protagonist, Strategy, First-Person

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About Somniphobia

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Navigate Susan's nightmarish dreamscape while evading her traumatic memories and psychological horrors through claustrophobic vents and shifting corridors in this hand-painted survival horror experience. Manage limited resources like torch battery and camera feeds to track approaching threats while solving environmental puzzles, all while one misstep means reliving the entire nightmare from the start.


Somniphobia: causes extreme anxiety and fear around the thought of going to bed. This phobia is also known as hypnophobia, clinophobia, sleep anxiety, or sleep dread.



Somniphobia is a single player physiological survival horror game, where you’re in control of Susan's nightmares. Her nightmares are filled with past traumas and bad memories. You must keep those thoughts and nightmarish figments of her imagination away from you, since once they get too close, Susan will wake up, and she’ll have the same dream again.

You must think, and try out different ideas if you are to survive all of Susan’s nightmares. You'll have to crawl through claustrophobic vents, creep down corridors, escape and survive in a nightmarish, hand-painted world of Susan's imagination.

Crawl through claustrophobic vents


Luckily this is still just a dream... however this means that sections of this cold dark, maze changes over time.

Stay alert constantly!


Monsters will creep up this hallway if you are not concentrating.


Keep all of those nasty thoughts and memories away from you!


Use 'cameras' to look into Susan's memories to keep track of where all the monsters are lurking. With only a small battery for your torch, a creature that moves towards you whenever you look behind yourself, and with the ability to only close off one vent at a time, you must carefully watch these unwanted memories to avoid wasting your resources... or getting jump scared!

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Jul 9, 2023
This is an amazing game and I'm shocked it's just $1. It plays like a mix of several FNaF games with the monitors, flashlight, and vents. I gladly would have paid more for this game. The game gives you barely enough flashlight battery to make it through the night and you have to be very fast to win the later levels. The story is very dark and the game is quite disturbing. My only complaint is that I played through the entire game, and for some reason, I didn't unlock any of the achievements.
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Recommended Jul 7, 2024
This game was awesome! Speed ran it a little bit but definitely got spooked by that camera jump!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 30, 2023
I guess it's a nice game; afterall I can't complain too much considering it's price. However saying it's "rough around the edges" would be an underestimation. I really like the concept and I can see that there was a lot of work put into it. It has some cool mechanics and a pretty decent and interesting story. However, the "main" gameplay (so said surviving the nights) is really plain. It's really just the same thing over and over with barely any difficulty changes and it just gets boring at some point. Then, at the 8th night (which should be the last, I think) the difficulty shifts and it's sweatingly hard to win. The only enjoyable parts of the game are the intersections with the story-telling, but I don't think I would pay even this small price for just that. I also had some trouble when I first started playing it. When the second night came, the UI changed to something different (maybe a demo or beta version) and it was completely broken. I had to re-install the game for it to switch back to normal. And for some reason, the achievements aren't working either, and I'm not the only one appearently with this problem. My final view on this is that the game looks like it has p…
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Recommended Nov 14, 2025
This game was good, I did wish that I had been able to spend more time in the FNAF mode as that was very stressful rather than the weird stand in a corner and wait a minute lol. You'll know what I mean if you try this game. The story is disturbing and disgusting and sad, especially if you have children. I thought this game was a solid 8/10. The art style is also incredible. I think it's worth a try, especially since it's a short game and dev. is only charging a dollar at time of writing.
Not recommended Oct 13, 2022
Screechy random jump scares are not suspenseful. You can literally include a type of music that all horror movies/narrations use (DMC proof too) that instills the same anxiety without having screen jump scares.
Not recommended Aug 22, 2022
Was a fine enough FNAF clone until I got to the 8th and possibly final night. At this point the difficulty spikes beyond a ridiculous degree to the point where it's unwinnable. It seems like the game starts disrespecting it's own rules to the point where success here seems more like luck, especially given the unpredictable nature of the enemies. Half my playtime was likely attempting that final level, and I've had enough. Not recommended.

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