Surrealidade: Definitive Edition

Surrealidade: Definitive Edition is a first-person adventure set in the Unconscious, an unknown world shaped by Surrealist art and ideas. You explore its environments, interact with objects and strange beings, collect items to use later, and follow a path through Surrealist techniques toward the Macrocosm. Reasoning, intelligence, inspiration, agility and exploration all come into play, and your actions influence later decisions.

Three levels of play

The game presents three levels in sequence, with the depth of your journey determined by how far you choose to go:

• Real World: Explore material about Surrealism, for a research-focused introduction.
• Human Mind - Conscious: Explore several surprising environments and find further research material as you enter the human mind.
• Human Mind - Unconscious: Search countless environments, talk to their inhabitants and try different possibilities on the way to the Macrocosm. Most of the time, you get another chance if something goes wrong.

The universe has no linear order of exploration, and the game has three different endings. Your choices during the journey affect the decisions you face later.

Explore and interact

You move through a large 3D world in first-person, with more than 1,000 rendered and animated navigation screens across over 15 distinct environments, each containing dozens of scenes. You can interact freely with the scenery, find important items and carry them for later use, and speak with beings who have distinct personalities and ways of thinking. Conversations are non-linear and often optional; they can offer clues, provide information about Surrealism and its techniques, or give you valuable items needed to reach the Macrocosm.

A book in your inventory collects the game’s text for later reference. It covers the history of Surrealism, its pre-Surrealists, images and photographs, André Breton’s complete Surrealist manifesto, and other information about the movement.

Activities and films

Alongside the main adventure, you can try several surrealist-inspired attractions. The Auto Writing machine generates more than 1 million sentences without repeating one; Delicate Corpse has participants contribute a verb, subject or adjective without seeing what the others wrote; and Razorblade is an action mini-game based on the idea of “a razor in the eye of society.” Other activities include a quiz, psychic locks, hidden music, unseen paintings and secrets to discover.

The game also includes the complete, uncut film An Andalusian Dog by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Its original soundtrack runs for more than 40 minutes and combines Rock, Techno and New Age music.

Definitive Edition

This edition keeps the original story, graphics, music and gameplay, while adding extra material and features. Its Extras section includes 50 minutes of making-of, voice-recording and presentation videos; concept art; unused development 3D; original packaging and press material; crew photos; a jukebox with the full soundtrack; and the full films Between Mirrors and Shadows by Dimitri Kozma and An Andalusian Dog by Luis Buñuel. It also includes the bonus game Super Surreality Land and a No Brakes podcast about Surreality.

Changes to the original game include English text alongside Portuguese, an options screen, automatic saving, on-screen options, higher-resolution cutscenes with upscaled video at 30 fps, and an option to play with censorship.

New Game + Dadaist Remix

After finishing the main game with any of its three endings, you can unlock New Game + Dadaist Remix, an additional mode with new material. It lets you move freely between the conscious, unconscious and marvelous, and includes new FMV videos, a modified room with added content, new frames, new dialogue for all characters that breaks the fourth wall, and the film Between Mirrors and Shadows at the cinema.

The mode also adds Super Surreality Land, a retro-style platformer accessed through the arcade in the conscious’s lounge; new gallery art; a Latin simulator; a harder humor mini-game featuring cucumbers and donuts; drawings created through psychic automatism for Delicate Corpse; three new video soluble fish walks; and further Easter eggs and secrets.