Orpheus's Dream
Orpheus's Dream Team · 2019 · Free to Play, Adventure, Indie, Casual, Puzzle
PC
Mixed70% · 239
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About Orpheus's Dream
✦ AI summary
Explore a haunting family home as Orpheus, using your guitar to manipulate surreal mirrored spaces and recover lost memories alongside your mysterious cat. Navigate perspective-shifting rooms where cracked walls let you duplicate and reflect entire spaces, forcing you to solve intricate puzzles by managing limited resources and choosing the right path through an ever-shifting labyrinth.
Orpheus’s Dream is a 3D isometric-inspired puzzle game with storytelling elements.
Orpheus wakes up in his family house with his beloved cat beside him. He realizes he can play melodies he hears and interact with the environment in this dream. He has no recollection of recent events, so with his guitar and partially destroyed diary in hand, Orpheus explores this surreal space and slowly recovers his past memories of him and his cat, Lyra.
Game Play
Explore Orpheus’s family house, and end each level by opening doors to reach a specific room. Mysterious cracks on the walls throughout the house allow the player to effectively duplicate and mirror rooms, creating a virtually boundless labyrinth. The game places heavy emphasis on the character’s subjective perception, as only the walls in facing the player are visible, requiring the player to approach rooms from different angles in order to reach different paths.
Four types of pickups allow players to open doors, mirror rooms, break bubbles that protect pickups, and destroying roots that block doors and walls. Mirroring rooms duplicate and mutate the pickups inside the room. The main challenge comes from managing the limited amount of pickups and determining the right path to take.
Orpheus wakes up in his family house with his beloved cat beside him. He realizes he can play melodies he hears and interact with the environment in this dream. He has no recollection of recent events, so with his guitar and partially destroyed diary in hand, Orpheus explores this surreal space and slowly recovers his past memories of him and his cat, Lyra.
Game Play
Explore Orpheus’s family house, and end each level by opening doors to reach a specific room. Mysterious cracks on the walls throughout the house allow the player to effectively duplicate and mirror rooms, creating a virtually boundless labyrinth. The game places heavy emphasis on the character’s subjective perception, as only the walls in facing the player are visible, requiring the player to approach rooms from different angles in order to reach different paths.
Four types of pickups allow players to open doors, mirror rooms, break bubbles that protect pickups, and destroying roots that block doors and walls. Mirroring rooms duplicate and mutate the pickups inside the room. The main challenge comes from managing the limited amount of pickups and determining the right path to take.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
"Orpheus's Dream" is a charming looking stylised 3D rendered puzzle game from China where you click around your house to solve various puzzles, recover your memory, and there's a cat, too, which of course draws in a lot of gamers. But what this really has in abundance is bugs... there's a good chance you won't be able to finish this because of all the glitches, and that's a shame. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. This is only free in a rudimentary sense... the developer has their hand out for a $4 USD "donation" for this as you're expected to buy soundtrack DLC from Steam to "support" the "developer"... digital panhandling. Like the homeless guys who splash dirty water on your windscreen at the traffic lights. No thanks. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at less than 100 concurrent players, they …2 found this helpful
Discovered this in my library and decided to actually try it. I went for a thumbs up as it's quite a relaxing little puzzle game, but there are some bugs. But it's free, so...
Wish could give this a mixed review. For a free game, it’s actually pretty good. But the bugs really drove me crazy…
Игра 'Orpheus's Dream' — это настоящее погружение в мир мифологии и музыкальных переживаний. С первых минут она захватывает атмосферой древнегреческой трагедии, переплетая элементы квеста и визуальной новеллы. История Орфея и его спуска в Аид рассказана с невероятной эмоциональной глубиной, а музыкальное сопровождение становится полноправным участником повествования, усиливая каждое чувство — от отчаяния до надежды. Визуальный стиль игры, выполненный в приглушенных тонах и с детализированными иллюстрациями, идеально передает меланхоличное настроение. Механики не перегружены, они скорее служат для того, чтобы игрок мог глубже прочувствовать сюжет и принять решения, влияющие на судьбу героев. Это не просто игра, а интерактивное произведение искусства, которое заставляет задуматься о природе любви, потери и силе искусства. Идеальный выбор для тех, кто ценит глубокие истории и атмосферные переживания.
i remember playing the game but not what happened, 10/10
I didn't find any game-breaking bugs, unlike what other people stated, but I might have been just lucky not to encounter any. On the up side I really liked the music and the art style. Overall it's a nice and short indie experience.
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