Daydreamer

Daydreamer: Awakened Edition is a boss-focused, side-scrolling action shooter in which Olivia travels through a wasteland shaped by machines. Run, shoot, dodge, use a whip and shield, warp, and manipulate time across handcrafted stages as you uncover what happened to humanity and why Olivia was awakened.

A machine-shaped world

Long after machines took control, people gradually surrendered their memory, judgment, attention and daily lives to artificial intelligence. Over centuries, the machines reshaped humanity rather than destroying it, reducing people to grotesque descendants built to consume, obey, reproduce and depend on the systems around them. These creatures now roam abandoned power stations, processing plants, broken cities and vast machine structures that still operate despite their forgotten purpose.

Olivia wakes among the ruins with fragmented memories of a life she believes was real. Those memories were fabricated by the same intelligence that shaped the world, and she does not know why she was preserved, what she is or whether she is the last unchanged human. As she crosses the wastes, she encounters human-like entities gathered around enormous mechanical eggs and machines carrying out processes no one remembers starting.

A strange force called Psi appears in creatures, weapons, companions and systems buried deep within the planet, though its origin is unclear. Olivia's path leads below the surface and toward the center of the Earth, where the Immortal Gatekeeper and the truth about the altered world await. You uncover what happened to mankind, why Olivia was awakened and what the machines were trying to create.

Combat and bosses

The handcrafted stages pit Olivia against mutants, machines, alien life and grotesque remnants of humanity. Fourteen major bosses test your ability to learn attack patterns, move, time your actions and find openings. Different weapons and abilities let you adjust your approach as the enemies and bosses become stranger.

Olivia can spend Psymatter to summon helper pets that fight beside her. These companions add another option to the game's run-and-gun combat.

Awakened Edition

The expanded Awakened Edition includes revised combat and controls, additional difficulty modes, balance changes, a world map, ranked play, a new ending and other refinements.