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Dreamscaper

By night, delve deep into your subconscious and discover powerful artifacts to conquer your nightmares. By day, explore the city of Redhaven and build relationships to unlock the power of your dreams. DREAM. DIE. WAKE. REPEAT.

Released Aug 5, 2021Very Positive · 88% of 2.6KPEGI 12
Steam Deck VerifiedActionAdventureIndieRPGAction RoguelikeRoguelite
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Developer: Afterburner Studios
Publisher: indie.io
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About Dreamscaper

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​

Dreamscaper

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.

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Game details

Developers
Afterburner Studios
Publishers
indie.io, Maple Whispering Limited
Release date
Aug 5, 2021
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Action Roguelike, Roguelite, Dungeon Crawler, Singleplayer, Female Protagonist, Replay Value, Great Soundtrack, Action RPG, Difficult, Hack and Slash, Roguelike, Atmospheric, Story Rich, Fantasy, Surreal, Top-Down
Modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
Steam features
45 achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Themes
Action
Camera
Third person
Engine
Unreal Engine 4

Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishSupportedNot supportedSupported
Simplified ChineseSupportedNot supportedSupported
FrenchSupportedNot supportedSupported
ItalianSupportedNot supportedSupported
GermanSupportedNot supportedSupported
Spanish (Spain)SupportedNot supportedSupported
JapaneseSupportedNot supportedSupported
KoreanSupportedNot supportedSupported
System 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

Ratings

Steam reviews

Very Positive

88% of 2.6K

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Metacritic

80

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IGDB critics

89

6 critic scores

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Age rating

PEGI 12

Violence

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Steam Deck & Linux

Steam Deck Verified

  • Everything works with the default controls
  • Shows Steam Deck button icons
  • Text is readable on the Deck screen
  • Runs well with the default graphics settings
  • External controllers don't work for the main player
  • SteamOS: Playable
  • Steam Machine: Verified

ProtonDB: Platinum · 16 reports See reports

DLC & editions

Also on Steam

  • Dreamscaper Original Game Soundtrack
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Release date: Aug 5, 2021

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