Goodnight Universe is an adventure developed by Nice Dream Games, released 11 November 2025 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.
What Goodnight Universe is
Goodnight Universe is an adventure game developed by Nice Dream Games and released in 2025. It was published by Skybound Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Goodnight Universe holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon X4 880K 4Ghz or Intel Pentium G4500 3.5Ghz, 8 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 520 or AMD Radeon Vega Integrated Graphics. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Goodnight Universe launched on 11 November 2025, within three weeks of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, ARC Raiders, The Outer Worlds 2 and Dispatch. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, ARC Raiders, The Outer Worlds 2, Dispatch.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Goodnight Universe yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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