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A Dream About Parking Lots
Look for your car in a series of mazes and parking lots while you talk to your therapist about feeling lost. An interactive short story about trying to make sense out of the unreal. Based on real dreams!
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- Released
- March 14, 2025
- Developer
- Interactive Dreams
- Publisher
- Interactive Dreams
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A Dream About Parking Lots Reviews
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Many of us have probably been in the situation where you have forgotten where you parked your car, which leads to pacing up and down the rows in the general vicinity of where you think you parked, while wracking your brain for what level and area you pulled up in. It is a situation that can be panic inducing as thoughts go through your mind, like maybe the car was stolen? Then that panic subsides when you see your car and life goes on. A Dream About Parking Lots takes that situation and turns it into a half hour therapy session.
Apart from minor annoyances, A Dream About Parking Lots is a nice little walking sim. In many ways, it's more of a therapeutic experience than a game, and considering what these kinds of games usually cost, the £3.39 you have to pay for it is nothing.
There's little else out there like A Dream About Parking Lots, a semi-autobiographical experience about the developer's own dreams. It's very short, taking roughly 30 minutes or so to complete, and while the gameplay isn't always the most engaging, its dialogue is thought-provoking enough to hold your attention. It's a unique concept, and for that alone, it deserves to be praised.
Personally, I found A Dream About Parking Lots to be an intriguing and oddly relatable. I’ve definitely had the parking lot dream before-wandering around, clicking my keys, hoping to hear that familiar beep in the distance. Maybe you have too. Let us know in the comments below.
Every now and then, you are faced with a game that you can understand its appeal, and find it to be somewhat interesting, but you end up with the realization that it simply doesn’t work as a piece of interactive media. I have a slight interest in psychology, and often tell friends that I would have studied it had I been given the opportunity to travel back in time, so the oddly-named A Dream About Parking Lots had initially caught my attention, as it’s basically a conversation between a s...