Nyctophilia on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Nyctophilia is 2D psychological thriller about bad things in your head.

Nyctophilia is a free to play, indie and adventure game developed and published by Cat In A Jar Games.
Released on September 23rd 2015 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Russian.

It has received 301 reviews of which 194 were positive and 107 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.2 out of 10. 😐

The game is free to play on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP
  • Processor: 1 GHz
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM

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Feb. 2017
No idea what the hell that was about. But the music was awesome.
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Feb. 2017
A meh story to be honest
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Nyctophilia
6.2
194
107
Online players
0
Developer
Cat In A Jar Games
Publisher
Cat In A Jar Games
Release 23 Sep 2015
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