The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2

The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.

The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 is a point & click, hand-drawn and adventure game developed by Cockroach Inc. and published by The Sleeping Machine.
Released on May 11th 2012 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 2,140 reviews of which 1,876 were positive and 264 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 0.99€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 into these genres:

Point & Click Hand-drawn Adventure Puzzle 2D Story Rich Third Person Psychedelic Psychological Horror Exploration Conversation Horror Surreal Narrative Dark Emotional Psychological Atmospheric Sci-fi Mystery

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: Windows XP or later
Processor: 1.8 GHz processor
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Hard Drive: 1.2 GB HD space
Additional Notes: Mouse recommended

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Sept. 2024

This game is fucking amazing. I hope the devs add more endings, because I notice there are several different options for dialogue in each scene. I really liked the chapter where they introduce Legion, it's fucking sick.

July 2024

This game tells a story that will stay with you forever. The characters and their stories are well written, the art is really unique and cool, the puzzles can drive you mad, but in a fun way (big thanks for the people who elaborate guides), and every moment playing it is enjoyable. May we all drift to the void in peace!

July 2024

How have I missed this game until now? It's not just the art (stop motion) style that's interesting, it's the narrative, world-building, and puzzles. Granted, a few puzzles are frustratingly obtuse, but generally I couldn't put the game down until I finished it. Each level is unique and compelling in its own way. You also get a lot of game for the price - it's much longer than you think. In the end it's the quality, not quantity that gripped me, especially if you like a psychological analysis of a game. I never knew what direction it was going to go in next. Most importantly, it does not pull its punches. There are a lot of scenes that no other game I've seen would have the stomach to show, and pushes the medium to the edge; but never for the sake of controversy, it's always in pursuit of its artistic goals. As an artist, I appreciated this game in more than one way.

July 2024

It's ok, if you like having to watch YouTube videos or read walk-throughs on how to get through it. The majority of puzzles in this game are not inherently easy to understand. Some are straight forward. Psychedelic, tripped out game. The ending was most disappointing. I'd previously played the game through right up to prior their release of the final chapter at 14.7 Hours, some puzzles were harder previously(at least I thought so). They removed the parasol requirement for the Bloody Mary (which made no sense, but at the same time did!). Just revisiting the game now (2024) to completion taking in 11.8 Hours. Challenging. Visuals are impressive, being all clay/cardboard/pipe cleaners(;D) Rewarding (unlikely) Runs on Flash and crashes do occur. I can now retire this game to my completed list, never to return to it. I recommend it even if I didn't completely enjoy it. It's still better than watching reruns of Friends.

March 2024

The Dream Machine has an eerily dark yet childlike quality akin to Fran Bow in its themes and art. While I'm not the biggest fan of this particular style of claymation, The Dream Machine is beautiful and raw in the craft involved in the creation of this game as we are transported into the characters' intricately crafted dreams. We're able to gaze into what each characters' daily slice of life and then, in turn, gaze deeper into their dreams. In doing so, we gaze into our protagonist, Victor Neff's, mind (and all versions of him) as he traverses these dreamscapes, while simultaneously we gaze more deeply at our own reflection in the psychological dreamland abyss and philosophical void while playing. 8.5/10 Chapter 1 & 2: Chapter 1 into chapter 2 is only a snippet of how intricate, yet easy it is to slip from waking to sleeping and question our reality. While the use of dreams as subject matter could have lead to more of the classic, random point-and-click puzzle solutions, I was surprisingly pleased to see an inherent logic to all the puzzles, solutions, and general exploration and side quests. These few chapters are really just the start, dipping one's toes in. 8.5/10

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Steam data	20 November 2024 00:00
SteamSpy data	23 December 2024 04:16
Steam price	23 December 2024 20:50
Steam reviews	23 December 2024 17:53

-75% 3.99€ 0.99€

8.4

1,876

264

Online players

Developer

Cockroach Inc.

Publisher

The Sleeping Machine

Release 11 May 2012

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