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4.6 out of 5
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Dreamscaper is an endlessly replayable Action Roguelike with a waking/dreaming gameplay cycle.
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About Dreamscaper
About this game
DREAM. DIE. WAKE. REPEAT.
Dreamscaper is an endlessly replayable Action Roguelike with a waking/dreaming gameplay cycle. By night, delve deep into your subconscious, facing nightmares in an ever-changing world filled with unique items, abilities, and challenges. By day, explore the city of Redhaven, build relationships and unlock permanent upgrades in order to take on the next dream stronger than ever.
Features
- Lean into the nightmares and make the rush of permadeath your ally.
- Use lucid powers to manipulate the elements, warp space, and even control time itself.
- Battle bosses that embody Isolation, Fear, Negativity, Loss and more.
- Upgrade a multitude of surreal items and discover powerful artifacts.
- Live Cassidy's waking life and uncover the mystery of her story.
MASTER DEEP COMBAT SYSTEMS
A rich, expansive combat system that rewards skilled play. Use careful positioning, exact timing and quick reflexes to defeat foes with an abundance of combat options.
Each weapon class in Dreamscaper is unique, from rending the earth below your nightmares to whipping a yo-yo into their faces. You’ll have a myriad of ways to approach combat.
Enemies and bosses in Dreamscaper are representations of Cassidy's most negative emotions. Vanquish those deadly foes to clear the dark miasma surrounding her.
OVERCOME THE NIGHTMARE
Adventure through beautiful, haunting dreams to discover untold secrets, vanquish nightmares and upgrade your gear all while uncovering Cassidy’s story as you plunge through her subconscious. Each dream is another peek into Cassidy’s memories and experiences.
Live Cassidy's waking life and forge friendships with the people around her. Empower Cassidy with their hopes and memories to dispel the darkness of her nightmares.
Game Details
- Platform:
- steam
- Release Date:
- August 05, 2021
- Developer:
- Afterburner Studios
- Publishers:
- Maple Whispering Limited
indie.io
- Rating:
- Supported Languages:
- English
- Link:
- Genres:
- Action Roguelike
Action
RPG
Adventure
Roguelike
Roguelite
Dungeon Crawler
Action RPG
Hack and Slash
Story Rich
- Play Styles:
- Perma Death
Singleplayer
Top-Down
- Features:
- Steam Achievements
Full controller support
Steam Trading Cards
Steam Cloud
Singleplayer
Product Requirements
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 7 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GT 640
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 970
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Critic Reviews
80
Based on 10 Critics
Dreamscaper User Reviews
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David C
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It's very beautiful, but one of the things I come to a roguelite for is a creative change of weapons each time I die. This really missed on that. It was sort of --- while beautiful, nothing really varied in loadouts between missions or upgrades. We don't play roguelites for beauty, unfortunately.
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V150R
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good game, good graphics, sounds good , enjoy and relax
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Lex
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Strong Binding of Isaac vibes, but with less skill synergy and more focus on active combat.
✔ a lot of active skills to choose from. Each weapon has its own combo, special and animations, making them feel distinctive
✔ mechanically rich - two spells, one melee one ranged weapon, dash (many different ones to choose from), shield (with block and parry)
✔ loadout - you always choose which items to start with
✔ good lifepool management - should be default but a lot of roguelikes treat life as the most important resource. Here it's important, but losing some of it is fine, you probably will get it back at a relatively low price
❔ melee passives (those that can be called that) are very weak, while ranged are far too powerful
✘ massive amount of perma progresion, that I think goes too far. I beat the game twice, including a higher difficulty, but there was easily more than half of stuff left to grind for. Some of it is almost necessary to beat the game on easiest difficulty, because they unlock special rooms on floors - without them you just fight enemies all the time with no time to breathe
✘ gets repetitive, especially killing the same bosses in the same order over and over again. This kind of pushes you to experiment with various weapons and skills though
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Mustafa Sharif
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This game has great plot and great charachters
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Alex B
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This is a fun roguelike with lots of unlocks, fun but fair action, and a good atmosphere. The music is good, the between runs tasks are simple and quick with a good amount of characters to develop background for. If you like roguelikes, this definitely should be on your radar.
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K
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A very beautiful roguelite that offers a disappointing experience. The combat feels bland and lacking and the metaprogression between runs is excruciatingly slow and grindy. I can appreciate what the game is trying to do with the story but ultimately it is not engaging enough to keep coming back.
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V
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It has all of the trappings of a good rogue lite with tight combat, good progression, and cool visual effects, but everything surrounding the mechanics is incredibly bland.
The game lacks personality. The characters look like dolls waiting to have their faces drawn on. The locales are nicely designed, but lifeless. Even the music drolls on as you fight through groups of baddies. I think the devs did a good job of making a game but unfortunately failed at making an engaging world for the player to explore and exist in.
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Frequently Asked Questions
According to ESRB, Dreamscaper is suitable for players aged 10 and above.
Yes, Dreamscaper is Steam Deck Verified. Valve’s testing indicates that Dreamscaper is Verified on Steam Deck. This game is fully functional on Steam Deck, and works great with the built-in controls and display.
- All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
- This game shows Steam Deck controller icons
- In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
- This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 7 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GT 640
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 970
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
90% of critics on Metacritic recommend Dreamscaper. The Metascore is 80 out of 100.
63% of Fanatical users recommend Dreamscaper. The average review score is 4.3/5
Dreamscaper was released on August 05, 2021
Dreamscaper is published by Maple Whispering Limited and indie.io
Dreamscaper was developed by Afterburner Studios
Fanatical users tagged Dreamscaper as Action Roguelike, Action, RPG, and Adventure
Fanatical users tagged Dreamscaper as Female Protagonist, Great Soundtrack, Replay Value, and Difficult
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Dreamscaper as having Singleplayer
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Dreamscaper as Action Roguelike
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Dreamscaper as Action
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Dreamscaper as RPG
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