A Sleeper's Quest: A Labyrinth to Thee

tl;dr: The game is challenging, but in a way that feels like you can overcome it and want to feel rewarded for doing such a thing. I haven't played a game like it before, but it feels like Super Meat Boy meets Gone Home but with hints and flavor from Dark Souls. It's theme is dreams and it nails that, even if you don't realize it at the moment. To beat this game feels like a great accomplishment that most games of today don't give you the opportunity to feel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There might be a game out there that you can compare this too, but I haven't played it. I felt like I was playing Celeste or Super Meat Boy meets Gone Home. The platforming was solid, and the only time I really felt punished by it was out of complacency or doing something that might not have been intended cause it would've been a cool jump. Gone Home just feels like the most comparable First Person puzzle-esque game that I can think of. So add some platforming to it and bam. Maybe it's because I've been playing soulslike games lately, but strangely I also felt reminded of Dark Souls while playing this. I'd o…

Hard to recommend. It might just be my tastes, but as nice as the game's environment looks, Sleeper's Quest is as basic as possible, with nothing interesting going on. It's essentially a single playground/maze with no points of interest, incentives or gimmicks. Is the game challenging, yes, but it's basic platforming as the description puts it; WASD movement with space to jump, shift to sprint, and on occasion, jump pads.