Summer Nightmare
Team Summer Nightmare · 2017 · Free to Play, Visual Novel, Anime, Horror, Gore
PC
2 user reviews50% · 2
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About Summer Nightmare
✦ AI summary
Unravel a twisted nightmare where deaths in your dreams become reality as you gather clues to break a deadly curse before your friends and classmates are killed. This mystery survival adventure forces you to deduce the truth behind a supernatural game while protecting those around you from a blood-soaked medusa and the horrors it spawns across four branching endings.
Features
- 41,566 words
- 4 Endings
- 9 Character CG
- 55+ illust CGs
- 35+ Original BGs
- 11+ BGMs
- 12 SFXs
Story
One day, a boy, Riel, has a nightmare. inside the dream there is a school just like in real where terrifying things continues to happen.
Being chased by a blood-soaked medusa, his friends are killed.
Students foam teams just to fight each other.
...this was a beginning of \.
After inference of collected hints, they can end this game.
the \ will tell about where Hints are, and friends' death.
they were programmed to bring them to death.
is the \ from my mind? and what happened in dreams is connected to reality.
when someone dies in my dream- so do in reality. can Riel finish the game?
Summer Nightmare is a Mystery Survival adventure in dreams, surrounding Riel.
Protect friends, teacher and yourself!
『Those who happen to behold Medusa, are destined to be killed by someone.』
Gameplay Notes
- You can change the language in Settings.
- If you can not hear the game sound, increase the volume in the settings
DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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[h1]Summer Nightmare — ~0.1h played | Achievements unlocked | Free[/h1] [quote][b]TL;DR[/b] — A free “school + curse + everyone dies” visual novel. Lots of bad endings (often the same vibe), predictable mystery, and a generous amount of gore. Not memorable, but hey: it’s free.[/quote] You know that kind of VN where you walk into a school, the atmosphere screams “something is wrong,” and five minutes later you’re watching people get turned into modern art? Yeah. Summer Nightmare is exactly that. The setup is simple: students, an “entity,” a mystery, and a steady descent into carnage. The game leans hard on bad endings—so hard that you might start feeling like you’re collecting variations of the same “well… everyone’s dead again” postcard. There isn’t really a shining “good ending” to chase either, more like “less bad” endings and a lot of “nope” endings. Story-wise, it’s competent but very fan-service in the narrative sense: it gives you the horror beats you expect, without surprising you. The culprit is “the one you’re not supposed to suspect”… which often means you’ll suspect them anyway. The writing does the job, but it’s not the kind of plot that will stick to your brain for…1 found this helpful
I hate giving thumbs down, and I wish there was a "mixed up feelings" button, because this is how I feel about this one. It's a nice, quick, and visually appealing VN. However the story/writing is lacking. If choices mattered more and the whole thing was polished, it could be way better
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This game felt weirdly rushed and written but a very young teenager or young adult. The story was all over the place and at times I didnt even register why we were making the choices that we were as the characters. It was a mess. I didnt even try this game for the gameplay but the easy 100% but I was disappointed either way. only buy the game if you want the 100%
My first ever review, lol Horribly written, no doubt about that But yk, it had something that wasn't so bad Game gave me a stroke, but has nice gore
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