To get a feel for this game before you decide to enter the competition, please check out several game play videos of Dreamals: Dream Quest HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, plus a slide show of almost 20 images HERE.

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Dreamals: Dream Quest

In Brief

An action puzzle game

Suggestions:

If you receive a key for Dreamals Dream Quest please give some feedback about your opinion of the game, for example, what you liked or disliked about it, or how it could be improved from your point of view . If you don't like this genre at all, please explain why. What, improvements, if any, would change your opinion? There are thousands of subscribers to the game giveaway of the day every weekend which makes this an ideal forum for giving developers ideas as to what their consumers (i.e you) would like to see in a game. For example, you could suggest extra content such as better or more original mini games, or a level editor that you would like to see that would make it more appealing to you. Maybe you think the graphics are a little dated and are in need of re skinning, or maybe you've just had enough of the genre and want to see something different or something with more originality?

If you miss the offer, you can get the game 24/7 via Steam HERE. It usually costs £6.99/$9.99.

Introduction:

There is a world of dreams called Dreamland, where anyone can have their wishes granted. Three wounded and homeless animals happened to enter Dreamland. Will they be able to find the lost treasures of Dreamland and save the world? “And will their wishes to regain their health and go back home safely come true?”

Reference accessed HERE 4th 2017.

Installation:

Assuming you receive a Steam key for Dreamals: Dream Quest once you've found it (should be sent to the email you used to enter the giveaway - it must be the email you first used to sign into the game giveaway site. If you’ve used a throwaway email there may be problems getting a key, because the key may be sent to that email. If you have any problems use the contact form. Hopefully the giveaway team will re/post the information they posted several weeks ago explaining the email situation. ) you have to activate the game via your Steam client. Once activated it will be permanently tied to your Steam profile and you'll be able to install the game at any time, anywhere on any computer, so long as you can validate who you are (usually via emails etc.). If you don't have a Steam account you will first have to download and install the Steam client HERE

Then create a Steam profile/account. Once that has been completed you can input the Steam code that you've received (after completing the form filling) via the game button along the top of the Steam client, (located between friends and Help). From the drop down menu select 'Activate a product on Steam'. This opens a product activation window. Just follow the prompts to complete activation. Once the Steam code has been accepted, the game will be permanently associated with your Steam account and can be installed any time you wish.

If you have a problem installing or activating or getting Dreamals: Dream Quest to work, please visit the problems section over in the Game Discussion forums, which I've now incorporated into the FAQ's thread, and which you can find HERE

The Game:

You usually don’t get sequels 6 or so months after the original has been released but that is the case with Dreamals: Dream Quest which is the sequel to Dreamals. Carrying on the with the same premise of utilizing the abilities of 3 animals to help you progress through various stages, this time Dreamals: Dream Quest uses a desert fox, toucan and stag to replace the previously playable parrot, goat and raccoon. Dreamals was an interesting title that managed to combine cuteness with an ever-increasing difficulty level, it’ll be interesting to find whether Dreamals: Dream Quest is a rehash or adds something new to the series.

Just like Dreamals your animals have a limited move set; Toucan only jumps, Stag slides to the left and Desert Fox luckily moves to the right. The idea behind your characters is that you must combine them so you can collect items and move onto the next level. To combine animals you simply have to get them to touch each other, when they do they morph into a new animal which keeps the move set of the combined animals. For example, move the Stag into the Toucan and the new animal is able to move left and jump, combine all three animals and you’re able to move left, right and jump which is something you will need to do a lot. These hybrid animals can also be split back into their original forms, in the original Dreamals this wasn’t the case.

There is a story behind Dreamals: Dream Quest whereby each animal has fallen unconscious and are now in Dreamland where a mystical rabbit tells them that they will heal them if someone fixes his spaceship.

Dreamals: Dream Quest is a platform puzzler where one of your animals or hybrids must find a key which then opens a portal which takes you to the next level. Dreamals: Dream Quest is not an easy game, even the tutorials can become frustrating very quickly. The difficulty level increases even more because of the animals very limited areas of movement. There are many levels which can be lost within seconds so you’ll be restarting a lot, this is definitely one for the patient player. The new ability to split the animals is a welcome one but has some issues when trying to split them near an obstacle such as a wall. Another issue was not knowing where a portal would appear after you pick up a key. So there are times when you will have to guess where the portal will appear, which is very annoying when you’ve spent twenty minutes carefully combining your animals to collect the key only to find none of your characters are near where the portal appears or even worse the portal appears to the left of the character who can only move right!

There are over 100 or so stages to get through split over a series of different worlds that may look different but follow the same cute design. The story is held together via a set of stills, the plot isn’t particularly interesting it’s only there to add a little more engagement to the proceedings but this isn’t really needed. Dreamals: Dream Quest is a graphically simple title and sound wise it’s fairly basic. The puzzling element makes Dreamals: Dream Quest a time-consuming difficult game to play, but once you know how to beat a level you’ll realise most of the stages can be completed within a minute which you’ll need to do to score 5 stars for that level (the more stars you collect then the more stages you have access to).

Dreamals: Dream Quest is a difficult game hidden behind cute basic graphics. If you enjoyed Dreamals then you’ll also enjoy this although this would make you someone who enjoys being frustrated a lot. It isn’t necessarily a better game than Dreamals but more a continuation of the same game. Dreamals: Dream Quest is not a title that welcomes the new player and whilst the game mechanics are very limited the satisfaction gained from completing a level should never be underestimated. Dreamals: Dream Quest may not play like a dream but it certainly makes you think.

Edited reference accessed HERE. Originally posted by Chris McNally on July 16th 2016. Edited and added to by Whiterabbit-uk 26th Aug 2017.

Other Reviews and Videos of :

You can see Steam community reviews of HERE, plus several videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

Conclusion:

I’ve not played Dreamals enough to give an unbiased opinion at this time. I will add a conclusion if I get time to play the game before the competition ends.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the developer XINESS for giving away 60 Steam keys for this excellent action puzzler sequel to Dreamals and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games, in this case a Steam key.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

The problems section that used to be posted here in the Game review is now included in the Game Discussion FAQ's thread; which you can find HERE.

I've updated the games section that used to be posted with the review. The thread is now called 'Weekly round up of game deals', formerly the games section of the weekly reviews. You can find the new thread (which I've posted in the sticky section of the game discussion forums to make it easier to find if you are perusing the game discussion forums) HERE.

The rest of the information that used to be posted here can be found in the forums HERE. Finally, check out Delenns thread over in the forums HERE. There are games available for free, some of which are limited to the number of free keys available. The thread is worth checking regularly as Delenn has been posting links to various freebies on a regular basis recently.