Melatonin

Melatonin

Half Asleep · 2022 · Rhythm, Indie, Cute, Hand-drawn, Colorful

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About Melatonin

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Melatonin is a rhythm game where you stay on beat through hand-drawn dreamscapes using only animations and sound cues, no distracting interfaces. Dive into 20+ levels across five chapters that explore the blur between dreams and reality while uncovering a mysterious character's story through vibrant art and carefully composed music.

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Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. It uses animations and sound cues to keep you on beat without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music.

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Melatonin explores the relationship between the dreams we have when we’re asleep and the experiences we go through when we’re awake, through unique rhythm game levels. Hand-drawn in a colorful and detailed visual style, with music produced to flow hand-in-hand with the gameplay and visuals, you will piece together elements about the main character’s life as you dive deeper and deeper into their dreams at night.

Features


  • Discover over 20 dreamy levels spread across 5 chapters, with every level introducing a new song.
  • Unlock a Hard Mode that will truly test your rhythm.
  • Experience Melatonin from a new perspective by unlocking fun level Mashups.
  • Make the rhythm game level of your dreams with an easy to use Level Editor.
  • Use Practice Mode to guide you through each level.
  • Try out plenty of assist features if you’re feeling lost.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 17, 2026
This is a good music game but just have to deal with the accuracy.
Not recommended Jul 17, 2026
[h3]Melatonin's namesake is ironic because everything about the experience will keep you awake, locked-in &/or annoyed.[/h3] The gameplay is intense & unforgiving, the rhythm is usually asynchronus, off-beat or heavily reliant on the art & graphical animation over audio . Gameplay comes in the form of Spacebar & Arrowkey inputs at the allocated point in the level, indicated by respective audio cues but mostly through animated characters & items, however audio/visual feedback for failure is a mixed bag. Overall there is little room for error due to tight input windows & sequential correct inputs being all-but required to gain the stars required to reach the next level. Melatonin dumps a lot of information on you from the get-go rather than feeding said information where applicable as you progress, although each level has a dedicated practice level available prior to a true attempt that explains the required actions & cues through a screen indicator. The true attempts remove the indicator from the experience & challenge your audio/visual timing & knowledge although with its removal I found the game to be unfun & frustrating as [b]the audio levels, music, metronome & effects, at be…
Recommended Jul 14, 2026
Great Relaxing Rhythm game id reccomend worth the full price.
Recommended Jul 14, 2026
Really fun game! The music is nice, the artstyle is cute, and i love the pastel color palette! I could legit fall asleep to a majority of this game's soundtrack! Especially Past, bcs the first time i played melatonin, that was the dream i was looking forward to the most! Thank you sm for this game, Half Asleep Games! i'll be looking forward to new updates! :D
Recommended Jul 14, 2026
100% worth the play, workshop songs are amazing as well, although i didn't necessarily catch the story, i still enjoyed the rhythm aspect of it all!
Recommended Jul 12, 2026
THIS GAME IS SO GOOD I CANT STOP PLAYING I NEED 14 MORE😭😫😫💜💛

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