Going Nowhere: The Dream

For the price, its highly worth it. It's a parkour game with a short story but where it shine for me is the exploration aspect. You think you are breaking something, and yet, it will reward you with an easter egg or achievement. You can check the guide to know roughly where the secrets are and find a way to get there afterward.

if you like the first one, you will love this one

Going Nowhere: The Dream, developed and published by Nowhere Town, is a quietly ambitious indie experience that blends first-person parkour, abstract exploration, and dreamlike storytelling into a compact but emotionally resonant journey. Rather than guiding players through a conventional objective-driven structure, the game invites them to wander, experiment, and interpret its world on their own terms. From the outset, it establishes a mood of dislocation and introspection, presenting environments that feel familiar yet subtly wrong, as though reality itself has been bent by memory and longing. You play as Loren, a young woman whose life is unsettled by the sudden reappearance of Violet, a friend who once disappeared under unclear circumstances. This simple narrative hook acts less as a traditional plot engine and more as an emotional anchor. The story unfolds indirectly through environmental cues, fragmented dialogue, and the logic of dreams rather than explicit exposition. Urban spaces transform into surreal playgrounds, where scale, gravity, and continuity are unreliable, mirroring the uncertainty of Loren’s internal state. The result is a narrative that feels intimate and per…

peak mechanics peak story peak game beautiful 10/10

pretty fun, a few achievements were a little tough and i wish after beating the game u got a skip dialogue button, but overall the game was entertaining and the story was interesting

I return to this game every now and then, fun play through and more enjoyable if you have played the first one.