Dreamdasher

Dreamdasher is a single-player platforming adventure set in an infected Dreamworld. You explore its levels as the DreamDasher, uncover secrets and defeat the Nightmare. The short story typically takes 1–2 hours to complete, and you gain abilities as you progress.

Move through the Dreamworld

You jump, air-dash, wall-slide and invert gravity to cross obstacles. Dashing is central to movement and can also serve as an attack. Holding jump makes DreamDasher jump higher; jumping before dashing lets you reach greater heights. You can wall-jump up passages, and press toward a wall to slide down it, or down to slide faster.

DashAttack and gravity changes can each be used only once while airborne before you touch the ground again. Orange visual indicators show when each ability is available. The game also provides instantaneous respawning nearby.

Face the Nightmare

The Nightmare uses two laser attacks near the end of the game. You can dash through its sweeping laser unharmed; its tracking laser follows DreamDasher, charges for a couple of seconds and then fires. Hiding behind objects as it is about to fire can avoid it. In blue levels and rooms, secret passages that look different from their surroundings can lead to Crystals.

Set the challenge

Four difficulty levels—Easy, Normal, Hard and Nightmare—change the damage and speed of the action. Difficulty Modifiers let you adjust the overall game speed, enable Dash or gravity controls earlier, and set either ability to infinite use in the air. Turning on any modifier can make some achievements unobtainable.