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Why Not Games · Published by Why Not Games · Official site ↗
Mixed — 63% positive (27 reviews) · 10 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
The Quiet Sleep is a simulation/tower defense game set in your mind. Build out different parts of your personality to keep a handle on your emotions and to achieve your goals!
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Indie, Simulation, Strategy · 2018 · More under £5 games
Navigate The Quiet Sleep's mind-bending simulation where you craft unique personalities to overcome emotional challenges. Strategize and construct defenses to maintain control over your inner world.
About this game
Develop your traits to gain new abilities! Decide whether to turn your ambition to the highs of the feeling of achievement or the lows of self-loathing. Choose whether or not to renounce your homeland. Determine how alone you really are.
Convert different qualities! Take your love of music and your resolve to make something great and use them to think through problems with your songs. Convert your industry and energy into work that will get you paid and then take that money and add some flirtation to go on a date! Use your will to get the strength to feed your callousness enough to help you through a tough time.
In addition, you will:
- Make great music.
- Spy on a local teacher.
- Unpack clothes.
- Woo someone delightful.
- Struggle to maintain a relationship with someone else.
- Be inspired by your muse.
- Go on walks to help you remain calm.
- Realize that you will never be understood.
and much, much more.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 1.7GHz dual-core CPU
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 5000 or better
- Storage: 150 MB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Press Coverage
Staving off exhaustion in The Quiet Sleep is too exhausting
Your first goal in The Quiet Sleep is to wake up. You do this by connecting that goal to a willpower mine, which is itself linked to an energy spring via a train of thought. This is very confusing, especially if you’re attempting to understand how this works while frazzled on a Friday afternoon. That confusion isn’t ideal in a game that deliberately hides its true nature. This exacerbates the way you’re meant to feel overwhelmed, like you’re struggling to hold your life together, because that’s exactly what’s happening to your character. That’s sort of a neat idea, except in practice my hour with The Quiet Sleep has left me more exasperated than intrigued. (more…)Read full article on Rock, Paper, ShotgunAnnouncementsOfficial
Minor fixes
I fixed a couple of achievements that weren't firing and fullscreen for songcraft and evocations.Read full article on Community Announcements (murthynik1)Press Coverage
Play a messy brain in The Quiet Sleep
Brains are squishy, veiny gobbets of flesh filled with squabbling ideas, desires and feelings. They aren t pretty. And nor is The Quiet Sleep, to be frank. But look past this strategic-narrative game s programmer-art visuals and you ll find a life playing out among its icons. And within that life lies a story told through the systems of a game that somehow successfully blends The Settlers with The Sims, via the Zacklike, tower defence, and a touch of Fallen London. I ve not played a game quite like it. (more…)Read full article on Rock, Paper, ShotgunAnnouncementsOfficial
Crash Fix
Hey, I fixed an issue that caused the game to crash if you lost your job. Now, the game continues to run. You will still be unemployed however. Thanks to the people who found that issue, both for the bug reports and for getting that far with the game!Read full article on Community Announcements (murthynik1)Patch NotesOfficial
Crash Fix
Hey, I fixed an issue that caused the game to crash if you lost your job. Now, the game continues to run. You will still be unemployed however. Thanks to the people who found that issue, both for the bug reports and for getting that far with the game!Read full article on Community Announcements (murthynik1)
