Dream Game

Dream Game is a high-difficulty strategy RPG about a group of youths drawn from peaceful school days into a deadly game in the Dream World. Over 10 in-game days, from August 1st to August 10th, you explore a familiar town by day and battle mysterious monsters at night. The story branches into multiple endings, and your choices lead toward the truth.

The death game

A harmless charm called the Sleep Letter sets events in motion. Each night, you are pulled into the Dream World, where grotesque entities and mysterious monsters threaten your life. The story follows the youths as fear of death, trust in friends and questions of life and death shape their relationships and bring them closer to the truth.

Daytime exploration

During the day, you search the town for items that can help in the difficult night battles and discover story-related events. Moving, talking and other actions consume time, so you must pursue your goals within the limited day. Increasing your exploration rate unlocks locations in the nighttime Dream World, where you may find different things; battles with monsters can also break out while you explore.

Tactical battles

Night battles use strategic grid movement, where positioning, items, adjacency effects and map skills can help you control the field. Battles run automatically, but you can intervene by choosing commands. Close-quarters combat calls for timely decisions: use special moves at the right moment to avoid lethal enemy attacks. Each character has 10 skills to combine into combos, and changing formation affects your strengths and defenses:

• Vanguard: increases attack power and SP recovery rate, but slightly lowers defense.
• Midguard: balances offense and defense, increasing accuracy, evasion and critical rate.
• Rearguard: increases defense and reduces skill damage taken from enemies, but lowers attack power.
• Retreat: temporarily withdraws from combat; holding out longer lets your allies recover.
• First Aid: restores a small amount of HP.

You can also use position changes to adapt your formation to the situation. The death game allows you to die twice before a Game Over.

Multiple endings

The story spans only 10 in-game days, but its branching routes require more than a single playthrough to reach the truth. Daytime choices and discoveries shape your progress through the multi-ending scenario.

Other systems

The game includes battle auto-save and difficulty adjustment. Game speed adjustment, battle skipping and the Sound Room become available by unlocking them.