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Lucy Dreaming
Lucy Dreaming is inspired and influenced by the classic 90s point & click adventure games, from its beautifully-realised pixel-art style to its irreverent, sarcastic humour. Delve into Lucy’s ever-expanding world as you explore a rich narrative, solve satisfying puzzles and discover hidden Easter eggs.
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- Released
- October 18, 2022
- Developer
- Tall Story Games
- Genres
- Point-and-click · Puzzle · Adventure
- Publisher
- Tall Story Games
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Lucy Dreaming Reviews
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Lucy Dreaming is so good that if it had been presented as a lost Schafer/Gilbert/Grossman collaboration from ’95 that was excavated and polished off for a quarter-century-late release, I’d half-believe it.
The best point and click adventure effort to come along since Thimbleweed Park, Lucy Dreaming is a relentlessly entertaining genre effort that deftly blends well structured puzzle design with the sort of delightfully irreverent and offbeat humour that will have you grinning and quietly chuckling like a loon throughout its duration. A great point and click offering that you can enjoy with a nice cup of PG Tips, though I suspect that a cuppa of Yorkshire Tea would be more in line with what the creators intended.
In the point-and-click adventure game Lucy Dreaming, you play as a young girl whose repeating nightmares send her on a murder investigation involving town secrets, strange encounters with residents, and some pretty insane dreams.Read More
Lucy Dreaming represents an astounding achievement when you consider the size of the development team and the results they achieved. Playing feels like chancing upon long-forgotten memories of better days. Despite this, the game pushes forwards, making these narrative adventures no longer just abandoned nocturnes summoning dreams of the past, but hopes for what we might see again in the future.
It’s not perfect – but it’s memorable. And in the end, I’m glad I didn’t sleep on it.
For the most part this mechanic works exceedingly well, ensuring no single location grows too stale, and both worlds contain many amusing details for players to find. However, this process can sometimes begin to feel tedious, particularly during stretches where Lucy must repeatedly wake, make a slight change to the dream box or her environment, go back to sleep to do something minor within her dream, then go through the cycle again. However, puzzling in the game mostly feels logical and intuitive, and while it occasionally falls victim to the more convoluted solutions the genre is known for, t...