![]() The pull of one more battle against the game’s crude stick people is unshakeable. Whalen’s game lacks big-budget production values (the now ubiquitous rustling of cards that unfurl across the screen, for example), yet it still feels great to play - events playing out at breakneck speed. You adventure across a randomly generated dungeon adding cards to your deck, all while carefully considering the relationship between them. (You purchase cards at a gingerbread house called Gouda’s Gummy Goodness.) In the same way you might play Mario 64 today and recognize the entire blueprint of the 3D platformer genre, Dream Quest features nearly every element players have come to expect from the roguelike deckbuilder. The writing is charmingly self-aware, filled with run-of-the-mill fantasy tropes and quirky details. It’s only eight years old, but the lo-fi artwork makes the game feel more like an unearthed homebrew gem from the late 1990s. Each level grants access to new relics, gems and encounters, but also spawns tougher enemies.Playing Dream Quest in 2022 is an almost uncanny experience.
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