a Dogs Dream
Test your sixth sense. Will you eat a wild rabbit, or tie someone to the train tracks? Every choice is yours to make. May you find a reason to laugh inside your nightmares.
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What kind of dreams have you been having lately?
The good dog Cloud is taken by an alien on her 25th birthday.
Now you are a dog, showing countless dreams to the alien.
In these dreams, everything is twisted — but trust your sixth sense to find the truth.
Make the alien angry, and they might suck the Earth like a candy.
– Choose within dreams –
Your unknown choices will lead your journey.
Sometimes the strangest choice is the bravest one.
In dreams, the main character changes. Navigate each story with a different protagonist in every dream.
-Explore the ship by day—stay out of the aliens’ line of sight.-
Fight through brutal encounters and surreal anomalies to uncover an escape route.
Recruit allies and slip through the ship’s shadowy back corridors.
The aliens are tracking you. Stay sharp.
– Collect helpful items with Dream Worms –
Put the alien into a deep sleep to earn Dream Worms.
Grind them — they’ll come in handy.
– Care for the alien’s mind –
The being looks quite lonely.
Making it sad… might be a mistake.
– Discover the hidden ending –
Within a chain of small dreams,
uncover the end of a greater story —
one that only you can create.
Play a Dogs Dream now!
Dozens of short, surreal omnibus stories with countless choices
Emotional scenes crafted around diverse, dreamlike themes
How could a small dog possibly save the world?
A touching main story hidden within tiny dreams
a Dogs Dream is a surreal narrative adventure inspired by Maki Sasaki’s “Street of the Beach”, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Osamu Tezuka’s “Phoenix”, and One Thousand and One Nights.
Explore the strange and emotional dreams of a small dog — from funny and absurd visions to dark and terrifying nightmares.
