Dreamscaper

Afterburner Studios · indie.io, Maple Whispering Limited

Released: Aug 5, 2021
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 00:47 GMT

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25 Jun 2026Developer post
Dreamscaper: 80% Off in the Steam Summer Sale!
Dreamscaper is 80% off in the Steam Summer Sale, June 25 to July 9. Grab your copy and check out other great indie games on sale during the Summer Sale to add to your collection.
15 Apr 2024Developer post
Dreamscaper is part of Freedom Games Publisher Sale!
Hi everyone - if you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so. The game will be 75% off from April 15th through the 22nd! Make sure to check out Freedom Games Publisher Sale page to pick up some awesome indie games at great prices. Whether you like to pl
21 Dec 2023Developer post
Dreamscaper is part of the Steam Winter Sale!
Hi everyone! If you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so as we are part of the Steam Winter Sale through our publisher Freedom Games! From December 21st until January 4th , the game will be on sale for 75% off! Make sure to check out Freedom Games' W
20 Feb 2023Developer post
Surprise Update: Now Steam Deck Verified!
Hey Dreamscapers! As many of you know, we have spent the last year hard at work on our second unannounced title thanks to your support of our studio. However, we fell in love with the Steam Deck over the holidays and felt strongly that Dreamscaper is the perfect game for the devi
05 Feb 2022Developer post
Autosave Race Condition Hotfix (1.1.6.0)
It was discovered that a session's save progress could be lost thanks to a race condition between our asynchronous level streaming and the new asynchronous autosaving. This issue has been resolved. Please let us know if you happen to encounter any additional issues! - Rob, Paul &
11 Jan 2022Developer post
Engine Upgrade & Optimizations (1.1.5.0)
Happy New Year everyone! As many of you know, as of 1.1 we now consider the current version of Dreamscaper as the final definitive experience, but we will continue to maintain stability and performance for our players. The primary purpose of this patch (and the bulk of the work)
Happy New Year everyone!
As many of you know, as of 1.1 we now consider the current version of Dreamscaper as the final definitive experience, but we will continue to maintain stability and performance for our players. The primary purpose of this patch (and the bulk of the work) is to upgrade our version of Unreal Engine in order to make Dreamscaper even easier to maintain going forward.
Additionally, we have made a few high-priority / low-risk fixes and improvements:

Auto-saving has been made asynchronous. Players with slower hard drives should now experience less hitching throughout the game.
Fixed an issue where Interactables could be triggered when menus (like fast travel) were dismissed, resulting in weird broken game states.
Minor translation, graphical & collision fixes.
Cheers,
Rob, Ian & Paul
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15 Nov 2021Developer post
1.1 Update Cleanup Patch (1.1.1.5)
Another tiny patch to address the following: All Nightmare Boss shockwave attacks have consistent hit type Various adjustments to language used within dialogue sequences
Another tiny patch to address the following:

All Nightmare Boss shockwave attacks have consistent hit type
Various adjustments to language used within dialogue sequences
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28 Oct 2021Developer post
Halloween Event Patch (1.1.1.3)
To celebrate Halloween, we are running a limited time event where some enemies become Jack-o'-lantern nightmares! This will be turned off again on November 1st. - Rob, Ian & Paul
25 Oct 2021Developer post
1.1 Update Cleanup Patch (1.1.1.1)
This is our smallest patch yet which addresses a regression in 1.1: Fixed issue where % complete in the save screen would round up to 100% Cheers, Rob, Ian & Paul
This is our smallest patch yet which addresses a regression in 1.1:

Fixed issue where % complete in the save screen would round up to 100%
Cheers,
Rob, Ian & Paul
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21 Oct 2021Developer post
Dreamscaper 1.1 is here!
Hey everyone! It's here! Dreamscaper 1.1 is now live on Steam. Thank you again for all your amazing feedback since launch, we were so excited to work with you to make Dreamscaper the best it can be. If you're unfamiliar with what to expect for this update, check our announcement
14 Oct 2021Developer post
Announcing the Dreamscaper 1.1 Update
Hey Dreamers, As a special thank you for all your post-launch support and feedback, we'll be releasing a major update to Dreamscaper next week, on October 21st . We've been incorporating more of your suggestions into the game as we've been adding some brand new content. Here's wh
Hey Dreamers,
As a special thank you for all your post-launch support and feedback, we'll be releasing a major update to Dreamscaper next week, on October 21st.
We've been incorporating more of your suggestions into the game as we've been adding some brand new content.
Here's what you can expect:
New Features
Merchant Rerolling
A highly requested feature - players will now have the ability to spend Sand to refresh the options in the merchant room. This new feature can be unlocked via the Daydreaming system.
Metacurrency to Sand Converter
To couple with Merchant Rerolling, players will now be able to convert excess waking world currency (like glass or resolve) into Sand from within each levels starting room. We hope this allows for more flexibility to create the build you want. This new feature can also be unlocked via the Daydreaming system.
New Items
A whole slew of new items:
Two melee attacks
Two ranged attacks
Four lucid attacks
Eleven Keepsakes

New Rooms
Paul has been hard at work on some gorgeous new rooms that will add variety to the earlier levels. Each of the rooms comes with new memories Cassidy can discover as well.
Finally, we've also added new Secret Room stylings in the later levels.
QoL Improvements

Icons display on the HUD for when an unused Firebird is active or when the double metacurrency buff is currently active (Before taking damage).
Text on Off Balanced has clearer language
Balance Changes

Blowgun, Biting Dagger & Fireburst have had damage reduced.
Player can no longer be impacted by their own status effects on projectiles parried by enemies.
Bug Fixes

Fixed bug where auto-skipping Regret's intro/outro caused the clock arm to disappear.
Auto-recycling of Health Potions that are off-screen will correctly scale the sand with level now.
Spawning Keepsakes through White Elephant will no longer produce possible duplicate Keepsakes.
Astral Blow can now spawn in Random starting loadouts.
Perfect Damage & Window modifiers no longer spawn on automatic ranged weapons.
Umbrella's Alt Attack has been fixed
Escape menu now correctly dismisses menus first in Dream instead of immediately bringing up the Escape menu.
Fix bug where projectiles would collide with the visual AOE of the debuffing turret.
Adjusted Whirling Currents alt attack to help prevent physics bugs, adjusted recovery time.
Erroneous "burn duration" text on buffing items now correctly says "buff duration."
Fixed many typos across all languages.
This build is currently live on our "test" branch if you'd like to help us iron out the kinks.
To access the "test" beta you simply:
1. Right click Dreamscaper in Steam.
2. Select "Properties..."
3. Choose the "BETAS" tab.
4. Select "test" from the drop-down menu.
We greatly appreciate your continued support of Dreamscaper, as always, come hang with us in Discord or follow us on Twitter.
Finally, if you haven't done so already, you can always help us out by leaving us a Steam review with your thoughts!
Thank you for playing!
- Afterburner Studios (Ian, Paul & Rob)
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13 Sep 2021Developer post
QoL Update Hotfix (1.0.5.7)
OK one final bug got reported after the cleanup patch went out that we felt was worth hotfixing: - Regret's Tick-Tocking would persist indefinitely if defeated when "Skip Boss Animations" is checked on. Sorry for the crazy patching today! Cheers, Rob, Ian & Paul
13 Sep 2021Developer post
QoL Update Cleanup Patch #2 (1.0.5.6)
Just some final bug fixes for a couple of minor issues that were discovered over the weekend: - Fixed issue where "skip boss intro/outro" option was skipping boss cleanup (projectiles, status effects, etc.) - Items like Face Mask will correctly make the player immune to Assassin'
09 Sep 2021Developer post
QoL Update Cleanup Patch (1.0.5.5)
There were a few more improvements & fixes we wanted to squeeze in before we go heads-down on the upcoming 1.1 Update (the one with the new content including items) so here you go! Improvements: Increasing the size of a lot of smaller text (primarily for Nintendo Switch and S
There were a few more improvements & fixes we wanted to squeeze in before we go heads-down on the upcoming 1.1 Update (the one with the new content including items) so here you go!
Improvements:

Increasing the size of a lot of smaller text (primarily for Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck)
Character Stats in the Inventory can now be scrolled through (right stick on Gamepad)
Balance Changes:

Status Effect trigger chance is no longer reduced by number of hits (except for Freeze)
Status Effects being triggered by multiple hits extends previous effects instead of stopping and starting new ones
Slight nerf to Feather Foot Flip Damage
Nerfed a particularly brutal combat room in nightmare hometown that had two bruisers
Fixes:

Fixed issue where cooldown can get stuck on an empty Lucid ability after a swap.
Fixed issue where unclaimed Item Mastery rewards would not stay in the room after teleporting out.
Fixed some missing Chinese translations
Fixed some German typos
Cheers,
Rob, Ian & Paul
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08 Sep 2021Developer post
Dreamscaper Quality of Life Update
Hey everyone, We've been following your conversations in Discord and on the forums since launch and have compiled a list of the most-asked for changes and improvements. Over the last month, we've been implementing those requests and modifying Dreamscaper based on all your great f
Hey everyone,
We've been following your conversations in Discord and on the forums since launch and have compiled a list of the most-asked for changes and improvements. Over the last month, we've been implementing those requests and modifying Dreamscaper based on all your great feedback.
Today we're releasing our first major quality of life update, with your requested changes, ahead of our planned 1.1 update.
Here's what you can expect:
Improvements

Black Hole now damages enemies with an explosion at the end
Bombs now have screen shake
Overworld map lists what location takes what meta currency
Checkbox to auto-skip boss cutscenes is now in the options menu
New iconography that indicates whether a modifier is global or for that item
Checkbox for higher visibility cursor (M+K)
Clearer indication item is mastered in loadout list
Left side of loadout menu now shows mastery level
Auto-recycle now works on sand
Nightmare Loss electrical hazard uses green color instead of blue
Wanderer buffing effects have more clear visual indicator
Re-rolling chit chat interest once if initial roll is a duplicate.
Puzzle of Revelation no longer has guess work, there is always a deterministic answer
Traps are now deactivated in cleared rooms
No longer duplicates in choice rooms and merchant shops
Item UI displays total damage calculation for multi-hit attacks
Random Mastered / Random Not Mastered are now options in the loadout list
Firebird feather now staggers enemies when triggered
The player can no longer be grabbed out of long hit reactions by the bruiser
Shock now applies over time and can be applied as first element that causes a Critical Extinguish
Healing numbers pop up over the player similar to damage
Sub 1 damage and healing numbers now display a decimal point (e.g. 0.4)
Lucid attack icons on the HUD display remaining cooldown seconds
Balance Changes

Resentment now has a new attack and a more challenging attack pattern
Regret has received a difficulty increase, and a slight health decrease
Dream Intensity rewards have been increased substantially
Overall meta-progression speed has been increased to reduce grind
Critical Extinguishes can only be triggered by attacks, not statuses
Critical Extinguishes can only be triggered by separate attacks
Mastering an item now immediately grants a small amount of meta currency
Sand grants now scale with level
Deflector shield boost to parry window now 100%
Crystal Barrier recharge from 15 to 20 seconds
Reduced Loss speed at higher intensities and second phase
Mage's pillar attack is less punishing and easier to avoid
Reduce duration of Player popup and stagger hit reacts
Spirit board hitbox size increased
Finger Gun's Mastery Modifier changed to lucid consumption decrease
Adjusted height of water balloon and firecracker projectile
Decent Drencher and Boostie Fuego now always apply status effects
Boostie Fuego's range and damage increased
Shock chain length & damage increased
Poison damage mastery modifier is now +10% damage
Spring Feet keepsake now grants +30% Max Health
Doubling Booster shot health recovery to +20%
Decreased strength of Wanderer buffs
Parried enemies are staggered for 25% longer
Modifier that triggers healing with a successful parry has been buffed
Bug Fixes

Fixed bugs with leech effect not applying
Fixed bug where beam weapons weren't applying leech consistently
Fixed camera-framing bug during Loss fight
Explosive Trap Resistance now works on Assassin's bombs, late stage elemental explosive traps and ring explosive traps
Fixed bug where fire resistance wasn't applying to certain enemy attacks
Overdrive no longer lists a level / is not affected by item level
Various bug fixes for end-of-level auto-recycle
Fixed issue where projectiles and attacks did not destroy the Assassin's mines
Fix cooldown trigger on a variety of lucid attacks
Fixing bug where unreleased items were counted in % completion.
Various fixes to geometry and collision so players can not fall out of bounds
Various fixes to geometry and collision so enemies can not teleport out of bounds
Various fixes to rooms so enemies and treasure do not spawn out of bounds
Fixed typos across all languages
Fixed visual bug in the Enchantment Room in The Return
Can no longer walk up table/couch in Apartment (sorry)
Fixing bug where the player can be damaged by "frozen" attack collision.
Fixing bug where ability projectiles weren't getting damage buff.
Medicine Ball Keepsake now affects speed for ranged lucid attacks
Fixed bug where Enchantment Room UI would resize on selection.
Fixed looping teleport bug on Assassin
Thanks again for your amazing feedback and your continued dedication to improving Dreamscaper with us! We look forward to hearing more from all of you.
As always, if you haven't yet, please leave us a review with your thoughts.
You can also give us feedback directly via Discord.
Next up we have new content in our 1.1 update! We'll be sharing more with you in the coming months.
- Ian, Rob & Paul
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19 Aug 2021Developer post
1.0 QoL & Stability Patch #3 (1.0.4.1)
Our original plan was to hold off on releasing another patch until our larger Quality-of-Life update was ready. However, the list of what we want to do is so long that it will take at least a couple of weeks to complete. Therefore we picked a few of the most popular QoL improveme
Our original plan was to hold off on releasing another patch until our larger Quality-of-Life update was ready. However, the list of what we want to do is so long that it will take at least a couple of weeks to complete. Therefore we picked a few of the most popular QoL improvements, resolved all of the (known) crashes in our game, and bundled them together this week.
QoL Improvements:

By popular demand, players can now choose to opt out of the Discord prompt that appears when exiting the game.
Saves are now backed up at the start of every floor so runs can now be salvaged in the event of a crash or hardware failure.
While still not officially supported, ultrawide aspect ratios no longer cut the bottom or top of the play area in dreams.
Crash Fixes:

Fix for the crashes that could occur on the 6th floor when traveling between rooms.
Fix for the crash that can occur between floors when swapping Influences.
Fix for the crashes that were occurring in the 3rd boss fight.
Bug Fixes:

Fixed soft-locks and other weird issues caused by bosses and players dying within moments of each other.
Fixed out-of-bound enemies spawning in the 6th floor.
Hopefully this will tide you over until our larger QoL update that should arrive in the next couple of weeks. Of course if new critical issues or regressions arise, we will continue to release smaller hotfixes to keep everything stable.
Cheers,
Rob, Ian & Paul
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12 Aug 2021Developer post
1.0 Stability Patch #2.1 (1.0.3.7)
We did a small oopsie and forgot to include a couple of fixes that were meant to go out in yesterday's second stability patch so we're getting them out this this morning (they were listed but now they're actually fixed): 2nd Boss on Hard no longer has Poison AOE attack (moved to
We did a small oopsie and forgot to include a couple of fixes that were meant to go out in yesterday's second stability patch so we're getting them out this this morning (they were listed but now they're actually fixed):

2nd Boss on Hard no longer has Poison AOE attack (moved to Nightmare mode)
6th Boss should be framed better during combat.
Various English, German & Japanese text fixes.
A special thank you to BadMedium for pointing out that the first two weren't actually fixed and to Rapscallion for several German text fixes.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Cheers,
Rob, Ian & Paul
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11 Aug 2021Developer post
1.0 Stability Patch #2 (1.0.3.6)
Whew. Two hefty stability patches within our first week! We're glad to see so many of you enjoying Dreamscaper 1.0 and so we're working hard to keep the party going. New Features: Introducing an optional "Max FPS" setting to help reduce heat for powerful GPUs. Bug Fixes: Fixed is
Whew. Two hefty stability patches within our first week! We're glad to see so many of you enjoying Dreamscaper 1.0 and so we're working hard to keep the party going.
New Features:

Introducing an optional "Max FPS" setting to help reduce heat for powerful GPUs.
Bug Fixes:

Fixed issue where an Early Access migrated save's progress wasn't saving.
Deleting legacy Early Access saves should actually work now.
Fixed bug where the player can climb furniture in Cassidy's room.
Fixed bug where the player could go out of bounds in 6th floor.
Fixed bug where the player could get stuck in the 4th boss room because of portal collision.
Fixed bug where the player could get stuck behind a newly revealed secret door in the 2nd floor.
Loot should no longer spawn out of bounds in 6th floor.
2nd Boss on Hard no longer has Poison AOE attack (moved to Nightmare mode)
Players can no longer featherfoot flip over 2nd floor geo and get stuck.
Fixed bug where Projectile Speed modifiers were spawning on Beam Weapons.
Crystal Barrier no longer has visual glitches in Exchange Rooms
Ranger line attacks are less punishing now.
Mage pillar attacks are less punishing now.
Fixed issue where the "Influence Swap" achievement was being granted accidentally.
Fixed bug where 6th Boss could permenantly steal a weapon during Phase 2.
6th Boss should be framed better during combat.
Some VFX & SFX bug fixes for 6th Boss.
Fixing some troublesome collision areas where players were getting stuck on trees.
Perfect Ranged Attack Challenges no longer spawn for Decent Drencher & Boostie Fuego.
Perfect Dodge Challenges no longer spawn for Burning Step.
Various text & translation fixes.
Balance / Design Changes:

Enemy freezing attacks now only *slow* the player down.
Shock status effect damage has been buffed.
Torrential Frost visibility has been improved.
Power Chord has Lightning Damage now.
Regret's "turrets" have buffed health.
Next up on our list is to start tackling some of the bigger quality-of-life suggestions given to us by our Steam forum users & Discord members! Expect to see that in the next couple of weeks (although we might do another smaller patch if additional critical issues are discovered in the meantime). Thank you everyone for your input and keen eyes!
Cheers,
Rob, Ian & Paul
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09 Aug 2021Developer post
1.0 Stability Patch #1 (1.0.3.3)
What an exciting few days! We are thrilled to see a huge influx of players and even more thrilled to see the positive response to Dreamscaper 1.0. We wanted to get a quick stability patch out immediately this week to help with some of the most critical issues discovered: Fixing c
What an exciting few days! We are thrilled to see a huge influx of players and even more thrilled to see the positive response to Dreamscaper 1.0. We wanted to get a quick stability patch out immediately this week to help with some of the most critical issues discovered:

Fixing crash that can occur when starting a new save game.
Fixing bug where players can get stuck in the room young Cassidy wakes in during the intro.
Empty combat room in Nightmare Campround now has enemies.
Fixed hidden obstacles discovered in Nightmare City.
Fixing bug where Primal Scream audio was not playing.
Fixing some English typos.
This is just the beginning. We plan on having another focused stability patch out later this week to resolve additional high-priority issues, and then more general bug-fixing & quality-of-life improvements in the following weeks.
Cheers,
Rob, Ian & Paul
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06 Aug 2021Developer post
Top 10 Selling Game - THANK YOU!
We are floored by the response to Dreamscaper's 1.0 launch. #7 Top Selling - USA #6 Top Selling - Canada #9 Top Selling - Globally* *It's currently #13 but we reached #9 earlier. If you haven't already, be sure to leave a review once you've played for at least 30 minutes, and as
We are floored by the response to Dreamscaper's 1.0 launch.

#7 Top Selling - USA
#6 Top Selling - Canada
#9 Top Selling - Globally*
*It's currently #13 but we reached #9 earlier.
If you haven't already, be sure to leave a review once you've played for at least 30 minutes, and as always - tell your friends about this game!
Finally, if you'd like to give us direct feedback, or even just hang out with us, check out our Discord:
http://discord.gg/dreamscaper
If you'd prefer to follow along with our journey, check out our twitter accounts:
https://twitter.com/DreamscaperGame
https://twitter.com/AfterburnerRob
Cheers,
Rob, Ian & Paul
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Updates & announcements

The game will be 75% off from April 15th through the 22nd!

New Features

Merchant Rerolling

Metacurrency to Sand Converter

New Items

New Rooms

QoL Improvements

Balance Changes

Bug Fixes

Improvements

Balance Changes

Bug Fixes