Dream Cycle

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Enter the world of Dream Cycle, a fully procedural action adventure by Lara Croft’s creator Toby Gard. Take the role of modern-day arcanist Morgan Carter and walk the planes of the Dreamlands, a twisted dimension where the souls of the living are trapped in eternal nightmare.

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248 reviews
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Developer:
Cathuria Games
Publisher:
Raw Fury
Engine:
Unreal Engine 4
Release date:
09 August 2022
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Mixed (248)

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Description

Enter the world of Dream Cycle, a fully procedural action adventure by Lara Croft’s creator Toby Gard. Take the role of modern-day arcanist Morgan Carter and walk the planes of the Dreamlands, a twisted dimension where the souls of the living are trapped in eternal nightmare. Explore diverse dreams, and by understanding the events that transpired, free the dreamers from their perpetual torment. Using a wide variety of weapons from traditional to modern day, and a grimoire full of powerful spells, define your own play style as you plumb the depths of the infinite dreamlands.

Main Gameplay Features

  • A Harrowing Narrative Adventure
    Designed by veteran game developer Toby Gard, Dream Cycle is heavily inspired by Lovecraftian cosmic horror. You play as Morgan Carter, a modern-day sorceress trapped in a mysterious alternate reality. With her life fading in the waking world, Morgan must free her friend and as many others as she can from the Dreamlands before the Crawling Chaos dooms them all.

  • A Dynamic, Adaptive Style of Gameplay
    With plenty of weapons, abilities, and powers at your disposal, Dream Cycle lets you truly define the way you play. Pick your favorite weapon, master the arcane, exploit your enemies’ weaknesses and find the best approach to each encounter - whether it’s full-force front assaults or silent but deadly incursions. Vanquish your foes, expand your knowledge, and invest in new skills and abilities that will help you shape the game into a unique experience.

  • An Immersive World to Explore
    Follow the footsteps of Randolph Carter and Basil Elton across the vast and mysterious Dreamlands. Climb the forbidden peak of Hatheg-Kla in the stony desert, carve your way through the Perfumed Jungles of Kled, and discover forgotten palaces with veined ivory columns that sleep lovely and unbroken under the moon. Fight hideous Ghouls and vast lumbering Gugs, meet exotic tribes, and visit a wide variety of biomes steeped in the lore of the Dreamlands.

  • A Shifting, Endless Experience
    An unstable realm made up of fragments of the real world, the dreamlands will change every time you visit: roll the dice and watch as the world in front of you reshapes itself. Go back to places you had already explored and face new challenges and new stories for even greater rewards. Dream Cycle is professionally voice-acted and features a completely original soundtrack by the original Tomb Raider composer Nathan McRee that further adds to the game’s uniqueness.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10
Processor:
Intel Core i5-7400 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
36 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Additional Notes:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10
Processor:
Intel Core i7-8700 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 20 or AMD Radeon RX 57
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
36 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Additional Notes:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

User reviews

kerneljay
Not recommended | 11 May 2024
32.6h played

Great concept, had a couple hours of fun. But it's maybe half of a game, and appears to be dead in the water. The story is barely there, I'm not really even sure what I'm supposed to be doing. Basically feels like I'm

Helpful: 10
Xephim
Not recommended | 22 May 2023
8.8h played

This game would be more fun if the randomly generated levels worked. There are so many instances where important doorways and such are completely blocked off. The fact that there haven't been any updates in a while

Helpful: 12
Break-D.
Not recommended | 18 Aug 2023
1.6h played

I really want to like this game. - Concept/Idea: is awesome! - Story: has potential - Graphics: ok'ish - Skills/Gameplay: has potential (Inventory could be better), maybe they wanted a bit too much (magic, melee, old

Helpful: 15
velociraptor
Not recommended | 03 Jun 2024
3.4h played

The idea is amazing, but the execution is so so bad. I really want to love this game. It needs a whole lot of polishing, though. It came out of early access in August 2022, and there hasn't been an update to the game

Helpful: 8
Cheon-sa nim
Not recommended | 27 May 2023
2.3h played

Excellent in concept and combat, but completely let down by the random level generation which barely works correctly, often creating a chaotic mess with furniture, item, and enemy placement that makes zero sense,

Helpful: 13
Throarbin
Not recommended | 04 Sept 2023
8.4h played

Overall I find it actually hard to say whether I'd recommend this game or not. It's a cheaper game and has its fair share of bugs and lack of polish but it can be enjoyable at times. I know I personally am not someone

Helpful: 6