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Lucid Dream Adventure
A hand-drawn point-and-click in which a girl travels through dreams to find a cure for her dying mother.
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- Developer
- Dali Games P.S.A.
- Score
- 4.9
- Downloads
- 1K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 9+
- Genre
- Adventure
- Price
- Free
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About this game
Lucid Dream Adventure is a point-and-click in the old tradition: scenes to pick over, objects to combine, characters to talk into giving something up. Lucy, a young girl who uses a wheelchair, goes looking inside the dream world for a cure for her terminally ill mother, accompanied by a cryptic dream-interpreter called the Oneiromancer whose motives aren't clear. The dream is split into ten regions, among them the Oneiromancer's own planet, the Desert of Time, where past and present overlap, and the World Eyes, which sends Lucy off among the stars. Each region has its own set of puzzles and side quests. The art is hand-drawn throughout and the soundtrack is original. It's a melancholy story about loss and regret rather than a jolly one, and the difficulty is deliberately moderate.
Lucid Dream Adventure: the full guide
What the game is
A hand-drawn point-and-click from Dali Games, Lucid Dream Adventure sits in the classic tradition of scenes to search, items to combine and characters to persuade. Lucy, a girl who uses a wheelchair, travels through the dream world seeking a cure for her mother, who is dying, guided by an ambiguous figure called the Oneiromancer.
Ten dream regions include the Desert of Time and the World Eyes, each with puzzles and side quests of its own. Everything is hand-drawn and the music is original. Rated 9+, it has a 4.9 from 1K+ ratings.
How a session plays
You tap around a scene, pick up what's loose, and work out how objects fit together or what a character wants. Each region is a self-contained set of puzzles with a few side quests, and the difficulty is pitched at moderate, so stalls are short rather than maddening.
The story is melancholy, concerned with loss and regret, and the listing says so plainly. Sessions tend to run a region at a time, with the Oneiromancer's unclear motives giving the plot a thread of unease between puzzles. Expect to read and listen as much as tap.
Why people look for it
People search for it because they want a proper point-and-click adventure on a phone and because the premise is unusual: a disabled child protagonist, a dying parent, a dream world. The 4.9 rating from 1K+ ratings is a small but strikingly positive sample, and the hand-drawn art is a draw on its own.
Look and feel
Hand-drawn throughout, so the five screenshots will show illustrated scenes rather than 3D models, with each of the ten regions styled differently, from a desert where time overlaps to a region among the stars. Point-and-click interfaces are simple: an inventory bar and tap targets. The listing's tone suggests a muted, dreamlike palette.
