Dream Land

Dream Land is a 2D sci-fi adventure in which you play as an artificial life form. You explore a planet, collect maps and equipment, develop your character, eliminate dangers and work to establish a new home. The game offers multiple endings, and you can make choices rather than simply follow orders.

Explore the planet

Procedurally generated maps change with each run. The planet is divided into dangerous areas of different levels: enemies grow stronger in higher-risk areas, which also yield more powerful items. You can unlock teleportation or overcome obstacles to reach more dangerous areas earlier. Terrain can be modified to help meet your objectives, while seasonal changes open previously blocked routes and alter which resources are available. High and low temperatures threaten survival, so when and where you act matters.

You can collect items across the map to support combat, but traps make exploration hazardous. Some areas contain resources hidden by team members, allowing you to obtain large quantities at once. The game provides a mini-map for quickly checking unexplored areas and a large-scale map of the planet with filters for examining its terrain. You can also place teleportation points where you choose.

Combat and character growth

Combat is real-time and turn-based: you and your enemies take turns moving, and time passes with each move. Movement is limited to four directions—up, down, left and right. Leveling up and equipment can increase your speed and the number of actions you can take. Killing enemies raises your personal danger level, attracting increasingly powerful foes.

You strengthen your body by consuming energy. After accumulating enough, you can randomly gain ability upgrades. Death costs you a level, but you keep all the items you have collected. Different weapons suit different situations, while damage attributes have their own effects and interactions. Combining weapon cores lets you create weapons better suited to your characteristics; grenades and mines provide additional attacks, and runes found during exploration can further change your attack form.

Resources and equipment

Materials gathered on the planet can be used to craft advanced items. Enemies killed with different damage types drop different materials, so you may need to adjust your attacks to obtain the resources you want. A store regularly refreshes its stock. Parasites can enhance your abilities when used properly, but they need to be fed and can be upgraded. Altars, mysterious creations of the natives, offer benefits such as resurrection and the ability to alter parasites.

The world and its history

Team members share information about the past, revealing more about the world and their own backgrounds. You can choose to ignore these communications and focus on combat and exploration instead. The game also includes a selection of music, damage statistics to help you assess your strategies, and regular automatic saves that may let you recover from mistakes.