Dreamer's Wake

Dreamer's Wake is a short, single-player third-person action-platformer and collectathon set in the fading dreams of lost souls. You play as a Haniwa, a funerary clay figure from ancient Japan believed to guard the dead or guide them to the afterlife, and travel through surreal dreamscapes to help the dead find rest.

Explore six dreams

Each level offers a view into a deceased person's subconscious, with its own atmosphere, challenges and collectibles. You leap through the Child's Dream, cross shifting sands in the Fortune Teller's Dream and navigate the open waters of the Careerist's Dream, among other dreams. On your first visit to a world, a cutscene shows it draining to static; you must restore its dream.

Use memories and physics

You collect the dead's memories and manage them in an inventory. Each memory has special properties and abilities while held, and a toolkit of specialized memories can make challenges easier. You can lock on to enemies, throw objects with a physics-driven system, rewind time to undo mistakes and go ragdoll in mid-air to send yourself flying.

A dreamlike visual style

The game combines low-poly and retro visuals with screen-locked textures: objects move while the textures that make up their palettes stay still. This creates the appearance of a dream playing on an old television.