As I Began to Dream
Strayflux · 2025 · Puzzle Platformer, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric, Indie, Story Rich
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Players praise this puzzle platformer for its beautiful visuals, engaging puzzles, heartfelt storytelling that explores grief, and charming atmosphere with great music. Common complaints focus on inconsistent polish across chapters, awkward movement mechanics, and a notably difficult Act 4 that shifts into challenging action gameplay with sparse checkpoints, creating a tonal and difficulty spike that frustrates some players.
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Good game! The puzzle is fun, breathtaking art, music is nice, and easy to play. But the gameplay sometimes got too clunky especially in chapter 4, other than that it's still pretty enjoyable for me!
A beautiful, immersive game, with lots of hours of gameplay to be had solving puzzles. Emotional storytelling too, with the storyline taking you through the 5 stages of grief. My one and only gripe is Act 4 (Depression). I suddenly felt like I was playing a completely different game (being chased by an enemy, platformer, dodging other enemies, etc.) that was incredibly difficult. Dying meant restarting the whole section at times, as there were very few save points. I ended up having to get my brother to help me get through this Act. I suppose it's on theme, but almost ruined the game for me (I would have rage quit and left it at that). I haven't seen others mention this, so probably just me being bad at this type of gameplay, but thought I'd include in my review so others are aware too. Still a great game overall.
Simple yet fun experience,
Charming game with nice puzzle, atmosphere and music and a heart wrenching story. Thank you devs
really gud game, great graphics, great story, must play
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