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The Nightmare Cooperative
Developer Lucky Frame
The Nightmare Cooperative is a fiendishly difficult turnbased roguelike featuring an array of characters, each with different powers to help you destroy monsters, escape levels, and collect gold. From the Steam store page
97 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Nov 14, 2025 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
52
Mixed
50 positive · 47 negative
95% range 42–61%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
67 of 134 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 97 · most liked firstNote: video review embedded below. The saddest thing about The Nightmare Cooperative, is that it's only real use is as a starting point for getting people into other games. It's a turn-based roguelike that simplifies genre staples into something far more accessible than the genre is known for. You only have the ability to move and use a special attack, there are no stats or leveling systems, equipment is barely present, and the game only ever exists on a single screen. And all of that is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you go into this game expecting a grand and complicated experience, you'll probably be disappointed. The Nightmare Cooperative is a compact game, a roguelike distilled to its base elements. You won't find complex skill trees, or a multitude of loot to collect and equip, or expansive environments for you to explore and perish in. That's not a bad thing; if you're looking for something simple but challenging, simplified yet also strategic and tactical, The Nightmare Cooperative excels. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a decent little puzzle rouge-lite, but I won the game on my second playthrough and after less than 2 hours I had done everything there is to do. It's the sort of game that's fine on a phone, for when you want to waste a few minutes, but there's just not enough content on PC to justify the cost.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Nightmare Cooperative is a dungeoning crawling game that seems more fitting for mobile devices than it does Steam, but still a solid rogue like nonetheless. With a simple premise, the game is about surviving a dungeon with multiple units on screen. Similar to dungeon crawlers like Legend of Grimrock or Quest of Dungeons, you move one space at a time, and so does the enemy. A singular command makes all of your units move, thus the "Cooperative", which is where the real challenge settles into…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Take the addictiveness of 2048, throw it into a roguelike game, add some terrain, baddies, and environmental hazards and you have The Nightmare Cooperative. The game deviates from the standard roguelike path by adding more of a puzzle vibe. Like in 2048, you control your units by moving in one of four directions, all units move at the same time in the same direction each turn if able. Of course like any good dungeon crawler, there is no lack of enemies and other hazards to slash your way…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-zanL4IXfc Above is my impressions of the game. The Nightmare Cooperative is an interesting turn based strategy Rogue-like / lite. It features a whimsical cartoony visual style, with cerebral gameplay mechanics. The game also has an enjoyable class based system, where you can gain allies who have their own special trait that you can exploit in order to progress through the game. The Nightmare Cooperative has some pretty strong mechanics, but it is a little…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cute graphics Turn-based Random loot and heroes Low starting health Insta-death Small Dungeon Floors--Short Game This is a strategy rogue-like. I haven't played much but I like it so far. After seeing some of the negative reviews I feel I have to defend it a little bit because I think some people expect it to be something that it's not. There's a lot more strategy than at first glance because all your characters move at the same time but they are on different spots on the grid. So if you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want a good modern "Roguelike" play Spelunky or Issac or Dungeons of Dreadmor If you want a puzzle game play DROD This game could actually have been a decent lightweight puzzling game, but the randomized dungeons destroy any ambition you might have to approaching things in that manner. Here's the thing about randomized dungeons that "roguelike" developers should take note of: It's attractive to believe you can write a single randomizer algorithm that builds your levels for you. It…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A simple, challenging and fun game, its turn-based and you can control up to 4 characters at the same-time which wont be a picnic, levels are small enough to fit the screen, and filled with enemies, traps, allies to recruit and pickups. Pros + Good character design, nice music and soundeffects. + Plays nicely although its rough but its really about strategy and planning. + about 4 dungeons, each containing 4 levels that can be beaten in seconds, but they're hard and gets harder and rushing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommended: It's a fun game which you can easily spend a lot of time on, but to speak frankly 10$ seems like a steep price for as simplistic a game as Nightmare Cooperative is. Nonetheless, if you like more casual rogue-like games, Nightmare Cooperative has a lot to offer. Full review available [url=https://www.highlandarrow.com/reviews/122-review-the-nightmare-cooperative.html]here
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Nightmare Cooperative is an interesting and fun little game. Despite being labelled a turn-based rogue like, it's in fact just a proper Roguelike. First Impression Video http://youtu.be/3qLWk4pMqvA Monsters move when you move, they move when you attack, and the levels and traps are randomly generated. Despite having rather simple mechanics, the game has some rather good depth and difficulty. It's not hard for the sake of being hard; it's hard because of the actions you take and how to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simplified to a fault and overly small. What mechanics are there do allow for some interesting interactions and planning, but the game doesn´t feel worth it to spend the time to figure that stuff out. Probably reasonable on mobile but can´t say I cared.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple, fun, cute, fast & short turn-based rogue-like. Starts easy and becomes a bit challenging at the end. Great as an introductory game for the genre. Worth every cent.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would not recommend this game as it is not as it is advertised. Its not a roguelike by any means and truly a turn based puzzle game. I got the game from humble bundle in a pack as 1 dollar so essentially I payed .33$ for this game. Even paying .33$ for this game I found it to be not good by any means. It is not the worst game I have played in my life, let alone on steam but if you expect a roguelike you will be wrong and feel like you made a bad purchase.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First off, although all the existing reviews recommend the game, I found that none of the reviewers had played the game much, at most a very few hours. So even people who thought they liked the game didn't bother plalying it much. I like the idea of this game but the implementation is somewhat lacking. I was hoping for a very simplified version of the wonderful Desktop Dungeons. Instead it seems I got a half finished game. First off, the developers should fix the control scheme. The dialog…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I own this game on every available platform (PC, iOS, Android) so that should give some indication of how much I like it. The game is simple and interesting. The simultaneous movement really makes it feel a lot more 'puzzly' than you might expect. A lot of this game centers around controlling your own greed. You can pick up treasure chests (boxes can have between 1-3 treasure in them, the number is indicated) but for each gold in the chest one monster or threat appears in a random location…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I made a video review to show off some of the features and gameplay of this game! http://youtu.be/2NGkYMBG0FI I hope you enjoy! Martyr
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple, effective and slightly unnerving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkhEfsDK_kk
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Roguellke puzzle game where you control multiple characters at once. Touch new folks that randomly appear on map geting them to join and start moving along with you. Obstacles and enemies will split your team apart making it difficult to defend everyone. Rest of your crew will inevitably die as a result. Goal is to get through 16 floors with at least one unit. Pretty much bad game based mostly on luck.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/7LMJQkjFI1M This dungeon crawling puzzle game requires a split focus to keep all the adventurers alive but doesn't provide many tools to do so. The combined movement of units pushes the difficulty far to high to be worth the time investment. The colorful paper craft visual style is well done but isn't enough to carry the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great game if you like this style of roguelike. It's not for everyone. It's like survival chess. DayZ on paper.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yup, I like this. It's a puzzle game, more than anything else; much like a party-based Desktop Dungeons. Lucky Frame strikes again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Nightmare Cooperatove is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a cheap lazy cash grab. It's a mobile ported puzzle game masquerading as a roguelike RPG, but it isn't. You need to move around each level carefully to collect the loot, kill the monsters if needed, and get down the stairs. Bump into allies on the board to get them to help you kill the monsters (but then you need to move two characters at once, which is not fun, it's annoying). The graphics are simplistic and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely loved the presentation of this game and had high hopes for it, but it turns out the execution is rather poor. This feels like a concept that should have been eliminated during prototyping. Controlling multiple heroes at the same time seems like an interesting idea on paper, but it simply doesn't work out. In the end the game doesn't have the appeal of an RPG where you can get stronger and progress, and doesn't quite have the appeal of hand-crafted puzzle games. It just missed the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game would be amazing if it were finished... A nice puzzle game (not so much strategy). I wanted to like it. Complete negligence from the devs with no updates. Don't buy. UPDATE: Due to my OCD about finishing games it did take me a bit over 6 hours to unlock all the characters on the game. I guess for that time it is worth the price. Unfortunately, had I known a lot of this is based on ure luck, it would have taken me way less time. It took me a long time to realize there's no real…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A nice, albeit short, puzzler in the guise of a rogue-like with the twist that you cannot control your party members individually, and instead you press a button and they all move together in the same direction (pretty much like mimicks behave in DROD, another excellent puzzle game). There are 16 auto-generated levels, each level fitting in just one screen. The monsters are varied, each monster has their own movement pattern and special abilities, such as swapping places with your characters or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →um what? This is more puzzle game than rougelike.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A frog-like game where the frog has become several characters you move at the same time and the street you have to cross is a dungeon. Each level of the dungeon plays like a puzzle. Rules, what your characters do, dangers or even what enemies do seem to be part of the puzzle: you will not know until you die trying. I liked the graphics until I discovered I couldn't tell what a character was doing - they are that simple.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A cute and fun puzzle game in the guise of a rogue-like dungeon crawler. Not super-deep, but a nice distraction for the price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game, as difficult as it is. Managing a full group of four adventurers gets so tricky as the game goes on, but the appeal is definitely in positioning your characters for maximum efficiency. I think my favorite character is the Ice Mage, simply because I'm drawn to crowd control and the Ice Mage can make all the difference when your group needs to bolt for the exit. I didn't like the Miner at first but he's grown on me quite a bit. This game takes several rather different genres…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wV-Psf2Jzc
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →got a nightmare but it was not just a nightmare it was The Nightmare
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you would like to read more of my reviews, check out and follow the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27264611/] 𝓕𝓾𝓷𝓴𝔂 𝓙𝓪𝓵𝓪𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓸𝓼 curation page as well as [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/FunkyJalapenos] joining the Steam group, feel free to say Hello to the community on the Discord server! ▀▄▀▄▀▄ The Nightmare Cooperative ▄▀▄▀▄▀ TL,DR Review This is an extremely basic rogue-lite that offers little reason to play, skip it. Full Review So I decided to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →you should be able to do something with the gold you pick up, heal your team, buy items, something that makes it worth picking up. This game is really repetitive, fun for about 20 mins.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The concept is good: A roguelike in which you control simultaneously a multiple characters (that means all move following the same orders). That makes every move a hard decision, and the game a challenging puzzle. Even though, there is no sense of getting better nor closer to the end. Every run is a new one. That doesn't sound too rogue-like to me, tbh.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →puzzle game, not strategy
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It seems like the combat is based on sheer luck, which discourages you from engaging in combat. I tried dodging every enemy in the dungeons, but that didn't work either and is not very fun. The difficulty seems to come from pure luck, rather than skill. The game does not tell you or in any way indicate what you are doing is right or wrong; it feels like there is not much depth, and that I’ve seen all the game has to offer in the 20 minutes I played it. I do not recommend this game if you are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Easy to learn, Hard to master! A very small yet challenging turn-based Rogue-like game that can be a good time killer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A rouge like game where you move your group of people all around at the same time trying to get to the exit of each level while avoiding/attacking monsters and collecting loot and more people. I found it interesting for a whole 5 minutes before I got bored of it on two separate occasions. Maybe because I am bad at this kind of games, dunno. Linux version of the game works without any issues.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[41%] Nightmare Cooperative's Test of Will Aesthetics Graphics████████════════════38% Atmosphere██████══════════════28% Level Design████════════════════22% User Interface██████████══════════48% Theming███████═════════════33% Audio Music███████═════════════37% Sound Effects███████═════════════37% Audio-Visual Synergy█████████═══════════43% Emotional Resonance█═══════════════════3% Functionality Performance████████████████████100% Stability█████████████═══════67% Platform…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is decent. The problem is that its very short and dont have much replay value. Full price its way to expensive for the time you will be playing it. But if you can pick it in a bundle is a cool game to play 2 or 3h.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-Got it trough a Humble Bundle- It's a really entertaining and puristic Puzzle/Strategy Roguelike, but it is almost completely luckbased what allowed me to finish it in under one hour. I appreciate the fancy artstyle and the different classes, but this game isn't worth it's price, because after you finished it once there's nothing left to do unlike The binding of Isaac or other popular Roguelikes. But if you're able grab it for under one buck it's a fun little trip. 6/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game's difficulty is for all the wrong reasons - mostly stemming from the fact that you control all of the party at once, and they all move in the same direction and take the same action with each input. This mostly results in an interface screw from trying to keep track of so much stuff all at once. It's not a roguelike nearly as much as it's a puzzle game with randomly-generated, sometimes practically impossible levels. If you want a party-based roguelike, go check out Steam Marines…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A challenging and unique puzzle game, where a great move for one of your characters may spell certain doom to another. Nightmare, indeed.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A thrilling and spooky cooperative game! 👻The tense atmosphere and teamwork make it incredibly fun. Perfect for horror fans who enjoy collaboration and scares!🤝
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don’t know what I just played. No story, ugly game design, no context. You basically move from room to room (let’s call them dungeons), collect treasures and kill enemies by just standing next to them or shooting when you have potions. There are different characters, but the “tricky” part, is that you move all characters simultaneously. The enemies move with each move that you make. The more moves you need, the more enemies appear. Interesting puzzle idea, but it just felt super boring to me.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple puzzle-movement game. Great for fans of Sokoban and friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →INDIE TRASH YOU'RE BETTER OFF PLAYING A PROPER PS1/PS2/NES GAME THAN WASTING YOUR TIME ON THIS TRASH 0/10 SHAME ON THE GAME DEV
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tags: Casual - Object Routing & Flinger Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Hybrid of a roguelike and a puzzler. Play a real roguelike or play Chip's Challenge instead. Plays multiple character at once. Unmanageable. https://store.steampowered.com/app/346850/Chips_Challenge_1/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Art is minimalistic. BGM is kind of distracting. Puzzle may be fun but since I couldn't change the keys, it was annoying (I wanted WASD but only arrow keys).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As we can see from the screeshots, the graphics doesn't hurt. The music and sounds aren't bad without being very interesting either. Since the progression is not quantitative, it seems that we just have to repetively do the same thing, wich is starting a game after annother as we die. The number of death itself doesn't even show. In fact, except the inventory that shows the creatures we have met and vague info about them, there is nothing ressembling progression that we can see or feel in the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought I was buying a graphically boring dungeon crawler, but I ended up getting a puzzle game...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a beautiful roguelike. I love that you control more than one unit. The graphics has something artistic to it that I like.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like the art style, dislike the concept. A rather boring game in the roguelike genre.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It bothers me that this game is in my library. If there was a way to completely remove my purchase from Steam (I wouldn't even care if I got my money back) then I really would. It takes up space in my Steam library. It's not worth the 1cm of space it takes up on my screen.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More a tile puzzle game than a roguelike and crazy needlessly hard.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very simple on the surface, but there is a lot of strategy to this game which is why I will give it a recommendation. I love strategy games and this was a fun puzzle to break, however as a warning I only put 2.3 hours into this game as of the review and don't plan on playing the game again (outside of introducing it to friends). Your mileage may vary depending on how fast you pick up the mechanics, and how much you enjoy replaying the game with unlocked characters. In all honesty…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feels too luck based and doesn't have much staying power.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got from bundle and thats the only place you should get it from its good but short. Not worth full price.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe a good game. Maybe not. Either way... I don't really enjoy it. The fact that you take damage attacking an enemy with more than one HP is frustrating, and it's easy to be put in an unwinnable situation. The game plays more like chess than a puzzle game or a roguelike. Lots of strategy that I simply don't understand and can't be bothered to learn.
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