Bad Dream: Fever

I owe this game a review and an apology. The first time I played it I didn't really like it. Too much handholding, and an inability to pick up items until they were needed, resulted in pixel hunting every location after every new task given by the main character. Unfortunately, this made the first half of the game feel really slow and boringly linear. There's also an annoyingly lot of whining from The Author, whom I suspect is supposed to portray the developer himself to some extent. What made me give this game a positive review this time around is the second half of the game. It kind of "forgives", or explains, the first part. The dev absolutely used this game to ventilate his feelings and insecurities as a game developer, but you can still see his characteristic morbidity shining through. It's really creative how he reuses scrapped ideas, and even incorporates them into scrapped versions of previous games. For me the story is kind of secondary. It sets the scene, but it's the ingenuity and playfulness of the design that really sells it. First time around I saw it as an excuse of/for a game. Now it's more like an excuse me/this game. And I apologise for not seeing it sooner. Y…

The amount of loopholes inside of this game is crazy

I got emotionally attached and cried when I finished the game. I love this, highly reccomend.

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Honestly, for a free game this is such worth playing though, I will say that some of the puzzles arent super clear like in the beginning you have to wait on the clock which is just not thought of at all but despite that the game is really good.

It's a very short game and unlike Coma, doesn't have multiple endings. But because this a free game, I can forgive the shortness. It's the same creepy atmosphere and forth-wall-breakiness of the previous titles with a message on how stressful game development really is when you're a perfectionist.