Buy Dream City Fugitive PC key

Dream City Fugitive is a life-sim RPG set on a small island with an open-world city. You play one character, choosing from six presets, each with distinct abilities, skill bonuses and clothes. Explore the city, build skills and a career, manage your daily needs, and follow a branching story about a fugitive caught up in strange events on the island.

Story and choices

The story has 30 quests across five acts: Act 1, 2A, 3A, 2B and 3B. Early choices branch the plot, and seeing the full story requires two playthroughs. A normal Path A run takes 12 to 16 hours; Path B takes 6 to 8 hours. Many quests involve combat, while others require deduction.

You begin on the run and can either join a vigilante group or refuse. If you join, you work with the group to resolve your fugitive problem, investigate strange events and negotiate your freedom with the authorities. After returning to the city as a free person, you must help local gangs secure their support in destroying the source of the events. A dangerous person complicates the task; you need to discover his weakness and defeat him. A special girl you rescue helps uncover that weakness and later becomes an important ally.

Refusing the vigilantes gives you the opportunity to join a cult. You discover that it is working with the people behind the island’s strange events, and that it will address your fugitive problem at a wicked price. You must fight alongside the cult against the vigilantes, who are trying to destroy what the cult has worked on for years.

Explore the island

The city covers nine districts and has more than 50 places to visit. Shops, a cinema, an art theatre and a hypermarket are in the shopping district. The city park is a hub for nightlife, schools and a night market; the office district has workplaces such as an ad agency, law firm, modelling agency and fashion firm, as well as an investment office. You can also forage in the forest or fish at its fishing spots.

More than 200 generic characters live around the city. Their randomized responses reflect their profiles: tourists talk about attractions, office workers about office life, villagers about the forest, and teenagers about mischievous things. You can also sell items to some characters, particularly those on the street.

The city’s economy, crime and weather change each month. Jewellery, housing and company stock prices rise or fall with economic conditions, so buying and selling can make or lose money. Crime affects street trouble and can become high enough to bring in a month-long night curfew. During the wet season, rain is common outdoors; when the city is in a plague, places such as dance clubs and gyms close for the month.

Build your life

You need to manage energy, hunger, health, morale and hygiene. Neglecting any of these bars can make everyday activities harder, though many places where you can address them are close together.

You can take part-time restaurant jobs for extra income and, after resolving your fugitive problem, apply for full-time office work. Career progression can take you all the way to CEO. Other ways to earn money include fishing at nine spots and selling your catch to a sushi restaurant chef, scavenging trash cans for scraps to sell behind a pawn shop, and gathering mushrooms from tree stumps in the city park or forest to sell to villagers.

You start with a poor place to stay. Once you have dealt with the fugitive problem, you can rent a flat, apartment or condominium. There are 20 varieties of furniture and equipment to buy for your home, unlocking activities such as sleeping, storing food, cooking and watching TV.

Cooking can cost less than buying restaurant meals. You begin with 22 recipes and can learn up to 66 by working part-time at restaurants or watching a cooking show on TV. Ingredients are available at the hypermarket, 24-hour shop, cake and pastry shop, and night-market stalls.

Scooters and cars let you travel faster around the island. You can call a taxi at bus stops for fast travel between places, or take the free bus between districts. You can also invest money in jewellery and company stocks; their value changes at the start of each month with the economic conditions, and selling them after an increase can earn a profit.

Develop your character

The game tracks progress through combat, career and personality rather than experience levels. Street credential gives access to more opponents, while work visa opens the way to better job promotions. Winning fights raises determination, which can provide an HP bonus in combat; doing good deeds such as donating raises karma, which can improve your combat roll chance and provide other bonuses.

There are 20 skills across four categories: physical, tycoon, muse and analytical. You earn skill XP by performing related actions or attending school classes, not by completing quests. Improving skills can take a long time, so focusing on a few useful ones is a practical approach.

Turn-based combat

Fights use a turn-based interface. Most pit you against one opponent, though some encounters involve several, and other characters may join you as allies. Outcomes depend on random chance, but skill points strongly affect your chances: improving them helps you hit more often.

There are 22 opponent types, divided into tiers. Tier 0 and Tier 1 opponents should be manageable, Tier 2 can be challenging, and Tier 3 opponents are designed to provide a serious challenge.