There Was A Dream takes you into an open-world cartoon style where, according to your choices, you can transform your dream into a nightmare in real time and vice versa, while you explore, craft, fight and customize your avatar.
Venture into a vast and vibrant world and explore seas, hills, and mountains
Your behavior changes the game world from dream to nightmare and vice versa
A vast inventory with items to craft, use and trade
Cities and villages with shops and activities, along with a lot of places to explore
Upgrade your character and learn new amazing skills
Work for DreamPol by rescuing people from the Entity, rank up and get upgrades for your watergun
Day and night cycle with climate events
Customize your look, with thousands of combinations of clothes, colors and stamps
Customize and train your horse
Customize your tent with a lot of useful tools and services
Fight against the Entity and her Nightmares
Take control of your Cat in every moment, and use him to help you to discover objects with his senses
Take part in activities such as crafting, fishing, hunting, and farming. Drive cars, sail with boats, ride and train your horse, and more.
Launch Trailer + Chinese and Russian Localization
We're excited and pleased to present you the launch trailer for There Was A Dream!
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We have also localized the game in Simplified Chinese, already present for those with access to the closed beta and Russian which will be available on launch day.
UPDATE: New boss and other fixes
Hello Dreamers, we have released an update that includes the new boss presented a few days ago and various bug fixes / glitches reported so far. Thank you for playing the game so many and making it better and better.
Introduced the new boss "The Cataloger": it is now possible to choose whether to fight in favor of the dream, freeing the villages from the Entity or the nightmare by defeating The Cataloger.
Slightly redesigned main menu: it is now possible to start a new game which deletes previous saves and allows you to create the character again
Fixed problems with scrollbars in options and credits of the main menu
Fixed most subtitles showing different words than dubbing
Fixed an issue with on-screen fishing instructions
Other minor fixes
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If you are a Curator, Youtuber or Steamer and want to create content for There Was A Dream, do not hesitate to contact us via Discord!
In recent months we have worked hard to add content, curiosities and challenges to the world of There Was A Dream. If you missed some content, watch the videos posted on our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmCKzyZUwFNOZQ4etr5GZUg/videos
Closed Beta and New Boss Fight
The Closed Beta for There Was A Dream supporters in the Kickstarter campaign started a few days ago. In the meantime, we are adding new content ahead of its release on September 2nd and among them is a new boss fight!
Deepening the story and the duality of good / evil and dream / nightmare we have added another choice that the player can make: fight the Entity and restore the dream or the Cataloger and increase the nightmare.
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If you are a Curator, Youtuber or Steamer and want to create content for There Was A Dream, do not hesitate to contact us via Discord!
In recent months we have worked hard to add content, curiosities and challenges to the world of There Was A Dream. If you missed some content, watch the videos posted on our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmCKzyZUwFNOZQ4etr5GZUg/videos
Progress update #4 - Cutscenes
Hello everyone,
We are working hard on the cutscenes, so we want to show you a montage of some clips of the scenes shot so far. We can't show you everything, not to spoil the whole story, but we hope you enjoy what we're doing.
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Let us know what you think below in the comments and above all spread the word with your friends. Help us increase Wishlists and followers on Steam
Progress update #3
Hello everyone, today we show you how we imagined the dimension of dreams. In this interactive cutscene Xehor travels to find the chosen one, the character that you will play as throughout the adventure.
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We have almost completed the implementation of the localization system, which thanks to a text file where all words and phrases are saved, allows you to change the language.
We have also almost completed the implementation of the skill system. We lack a few details such as icons for each skill and some refinements.
We will soon start working on the initial cutscenes, which will lead the player to the tutorial and then to the game world.
Let us know what you think below in the comments and above all spread the word with your friends. Help us increase wishlists and followers here on Steam.
Progress update #2
Hello everyone,
we've been focusing on a lot of things in these weeks and are working at a faster pace than ever, but first look at the new clip about the fishing minigame.
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As we said, among other things we are focusing on:
LOCALIZATION We are implementing the localization of the game, which will be released in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German. We could do it in time, before the release, to add more languages, but at the moment we don't make promises.
SHOPS We are dressing up the style of the shops, where it is possible to buy fruit, vegetables, potions and other useful objects for crafting and missions. Shops, like the presence of NPCs, are regulated by the time of day and whether or not you are in the nightmare.
IMPROVEMENTS In addition to all this, we are defining small and big things that we had deliberately left behind: interface improvements, a new style for inventory items, improved appearance of some places etc.
We will show you everything in the coming weeks. Don't forget to spread the word about this game and also advise your friends to add There Was A Dream to their Steam Wishlist!
Project FUNDED on Kickstarter!
We are speechless right now, but maybe we have something to say...
WOW!
It is only with the word WOW that we can thank all of you who believed in There Was A Dream. You believed in a dream and you will play this dream more beautiful and shining than ever.
But it's still not over. We still have 7 days of campaign and we will try, with your help, to break through as many stretch goals as possible. We want to work even harder and not to have a spare minute. We want to insert as many things as we can so as to give you the best experience we can.
The first strecth goal is near
A male character to create, customize and with which to immerse yourself in the world of There Was A Dream. As for the girl, all the aesthetic customizations of the case will be available, from clothes to eye color, from haircuts to hundreds of decals to customize her pajamas whenever you want.
We’ve re-launched our crowdfunding campaign for There Was A Dream on Kickstarter!
You have supported us in so many ways that we do not intend to give up. We still want to give you the opportunity to get There Was a Dream at a special discounted price in addition to other exclusive rewards that we’ve prepared.
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It would mean the world to us if you can help give our campaign its initial punch by making your donation here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therewasadream/there-was-a-dream-adventure-indie-game-set-in-a-dream/
Oh! And we have beta access up for the grabs!
Your support will greatly help us bring There Was A Dream to thousands of people around the world who will take part in the epic clash between dream and nightmare.
Thank you for your support, and talk to you soon,
There Was A Dream Team
P.S: Can you help us spread the word by sharing our page with your friends and acquaintances? This would give our campaign an incredible boost! Here’s the link again: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therewasadream/there-was-a-dream-adventure-indie-game-set-in-a-dream/
So we ask you to renew your pledge in the new campaign that we are going to open, which will allow us to honor the promises made to you. We have set a much lower goal, economically risky for us, but we do it in order to be able to give you the rewards you had chosen. We have recreated the same rewards with the same contents but with clearer descriptions. We have also remodeled all the streach goals that, if achieved, will allow you to play an even richer game.
Give us your trust once again on the day of the launch, let's reach the goal together and start this journey into the world of dreams.
