01 Mar 2026Developer post

Dream Catcher 2.0

(March 1st 2026) FINALLY! A NEW UPDATE Dream Catcher 2.0 is here. This has been the longest time gap between updates. The good news is that time was well spent rewriting large sections of the game. But I know you guys don't care about the changes that happen under-the-hood. Here

(March 1st 2026)

FINALLY! A NEW UPDATE

Dream Catcher 2.0 is here. This has been the longest time gap between updates. The good news is that time was well spent rewriting large sections of the game. But I know you guys don't care about the changes that happen under-the-hood. Here are some of the highlights from this update.

IMPROVEMENTS

Added particles when walking and jumping.
Footstep sounds now change based on the floor material.
The hitboxes of enemies is now based on their real size.
Wild tulpas now have the same portable light as the follower.
The follower's light will now automatically adjust brightness based on nearby light levels to avoid blinding you.
Significantly improved the way the sky looks.
Changed how the breeding system works to be based on time (Keep in mind that time does not pass while in battle).
Breeding now allows for random mutations.
Added a large quantity of sound effects at various points in the game.
Improved the look of the various light effects the follower can have.
Improved the pathfinding of the follower.
Improved various attack effects.
The time and weather affects battles as well.
Units in battle will now have the same light as their follower counterpart.
Added a few achievements.

BRAND NEW FEATURES

Added a new hat shop where you can buy hats for your tulpas (Every hat comes in 3 colors).
Added a summary screen for the trainer.
Added a day/night cycle (Purely visual).
Added a weather system (Purely visual).
Added moon phases (Purely visual).
Added a rare eclipse event (Purely visual).
Added the ability to headpat the follower.
Defeated tulpas now drop money.

BUG FIXES

Reduced RAM usage significantly.
Reduced freezing when switching various screens and UI elements.
Fixed a bug where some tulpas in a trainer battle would start with more than 100% of their max health.
Fixed a bug where the camera could get stuck during the evolution/hatching animation.

WHAT'S NEXT?

the next few updates will concentrate on changing the map, adding new tulpas and improving battles. Those are my 3 main priorities. I can't give a timeline of when updates come out anymore because I keep getting it wrong, but be sure that I still work on Dream Catcher every single day. I hope you continue to stick around.

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24 Feb 2026Developer post

Streaming with Moongaku

First and foremost, thank you for your patience. You've all been very nice and very patient waiting for the new update to come out. And update that I've been working on for almost 6 months now, my longest amount of time spent on a single update so far. You will have to wait a lit

07 Jan 2026Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.8.2.1

(January 7th 2026) Well this is embarrassing. After 4 months of working on "the big update", I have to release this small patch to address some security vulnerabilities that were found recently. This update has no new features but a lot of bugfixes, optimizations and a few visual

15 Sep 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.8.2 : Fancy Update (Part 3)

(September 15th 2025) I've heard you loud and clear. Everybody wants a better world map. The world is too blocky! I get it. This will be the last "Fancy Update". The next update is the big one. Don't expect it for a couple of months but I will make sure the wait is worth it. But

(September 15th 2025)

I've heard you loud and clear. Everybody wants a better world map. The world is too blocky! I get it.

This will be the last "Fancy Update". The next update is the big one. Don't expect it for a couple of months but I will make sure the wait is worth it. But that's next update. Here is what I've been working on these past 2 months (Other than playing silksong).

The focus of this update was to make skills look and feel more unique from one another by adding sounds and animations. I also reworked breeding to be less of a chore.

CHANGES

Tulpa : Added 8 new evolutions. (Every tulpa evolves now).
Tulpa : Most tulpas learn new and improved skills. (Cubble no longer learns a skill that regenerate mana, but no skill that uses mana)
Tulpa : Bunibble's new evolution comes in 3 unique forms. (The forms are purely aesthetic)
Tulpa : Bunibble was changed to come in 3 colors by default.
Tulpa : Some descriptions in the bestiary were improved.
Battle : Skills now have different sound effects and a few animations. (punching, throwing, dancing, etc.)
Battle : Status effects now have unique visual effects and sounds.
Battle : Added the status effects "snare" and "shackle" which prevent the target from moving.
Battle : Added the status effect "Elemental shield" which will add temporary health of a certain element, regardless of the tulpa's actual element.
Battle : Slightly decreased stutter during battle.
Battle : Added a summon/retrieve animation that also plays when you set your follower.
Battle : Added the "wake up" and "element chart" buttons from battle to the formation screen. (You can now give up before the battle even starts)
Battle : A tulpa's tooltip will now appear when you summon. (So you don't accidentally summon a tulpa with 1 HP)
Breeding : Eggs are now items and will hatch based on time, not battles fought.
Breeding : Added an animation when eggs hatch.
UI : Added an inventory screen. (The only available items are eggs)
UI : Added a counter to keep track of elements unlocked in the element chart
UI : Added a counter to keep track of tulpas caught in the bestiary.
UI : Added the last elemental background. (Light)
Overworld : The exclamation mark above wild tulpas who spot you is made of cardboard and makes a sound.
Overworld : Tulpas in later levels will now spawn as their evolved form, making later levels more difficult.
Overworld : Wild tulpas are now guaranteed to spawn with skills that do damage and will priorities skills that don't cost mana to prevent battles where nothing happens.
Overworld : Moved the dresser to the apartment to be easier to access. (It is no longer a reward for finding keys)
Overworld : Moved the breeding CD to be easier to access.

BUG FIXES

Achievement : The achievement for hatching 100 eggs should trigger correctly now.
Achievement : Changed the achievement for "having a powerlevel of over 9000" to the trainer being level 100 instead.
Lighting : Fixed a bug where the lighting would be wrongly affected by the room you are in during certain animations such as evolution.

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21 Jul 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.8.1.1 : Fancy Update (Quick Fix)

(July 21th 2025) There were a few bugs that snuck in the last update. This quick fix addresses all the ones that were reported. IMPROVEMENTS Balance : Tulpas in the reserve now get 25% of the experience even if they were not summoned. Balance : Tulpas regenerate 2% of their max m

16 Jul 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.8.1 : Fancy Update (Part 2)

(July 16th 2025) This update focuses on adding passives and skills to all tulpas to differentiate them more from eachothers. There are still missing features I want to add such as placing mines and walls, but this is a big step forward. To compensate for the lack of new tulpas la

(July 16th 2025)

This update focuses on adding passives and skills to all tulpas to differentiate them more from eachothers. There are still missing features I want to add such as placing mines and walls, but this is a big step forward. To compensate for the lack of new tulpas last update, I added 6 tulpas instead of the usual 3. I hope you enjoy this new version.

ADDITIONS

Tulpa : Added 6 new evolutions.
Tulpa : Added 14 new passives.
Tulpa : Added a massive amount of new skills.
World : Added a ton of new NPCs to fight.
World : Added more objects and images to the world to make it feel less empty.
World : Added particle effects to certain zones for the atmosphere.
UI : Added 2 new elemental backgrounds.
UI : Added notifications when you unlock new clothes or new skills.
Battle : Added new status effects such as Frostbite, Mark, Snare and more.

IMPROVEMENTS

UI : Improved the evolution animation.
UI : Improved nearly every species' description.
UI : Made some tooltips more readable.
AI : Enemies will now use status effect skills and heals.
AI : Tulpas are guaranteed to spawn with at least 1 damaging skill equipped, including starters.

BALANCE CHANGES

World : Tulpas will no longer chase you once your trainer is a certain level above them.
World : Moved the breeding CD and dresser around to be less tedious to find for new players.
World : One of the secret worlds spawn lampicks instead of snoofs now.
Battle : Trainers can only put 3 tulpas on the field at the same time.
Battle : Movement and skills now uses different points that you get at the beginning of your turn allowing you to move, attack and then move again in some cases.
Battle : Using summon and retrieve no longer ends your turn (or use a skill point).
Battle : Rebalanced every tulpa's stats to be less homogenous.
Battle : Rebalanced some elements, notably Insect to be less boring and weak.

BUG FIXES

Fixed : Crash that would happen if you hovered the mouse over portraits while summoning.
Fixed : Bug where bosses would fail to spawn sometimes.
Fixed : Bug where holding the camera and entering the PC at the same time softlocked you.
Fixed : Bug where trainers would be missing when you challenge them again but not give up when you kill their last tulpa, softlocking you in battle.

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01 Jul 2025Developer post

Introducing the Monster Taming Bundle

Dream Catcher is now part of a larger bundle of games with a permanent price reduction! Thank you for your continued support. The Bundle includes: 9th Dawn III 9th Dawn Remake Dream Catcher Ferromon Together Isle of Swaps PiMon View game page

18 Jun 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.8.0.1 : Fancy Update

(June 18th 2025) IMPROVEMENTS UI : The game will now ask you before opening another window. UI : Skills now have their range in their tooltips. UI : Added the ability to rename your character. Evolution : The evolution animation now loads faster. Evolution : Slightly improved the

15 Jun 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.8 : Fancy Update

(June 14th 2025) IMPROVEMENTS UI : Added character customization. UI : Added a popup to see stat changes after an evolution. UI : Re-added the feedback button that brings you to the steam forum. UI : Added skill names to skill icons to differentiate them. UI : Added some characte

(June 14th 2025)

IMPROVEMENTS

UI : Added character customization.
UI : Added a popup to see stat changes after an evolution.
UI : Re-added the feedback button that brings you to the steam forum.
UI : Added skill names to skill icons to differentiate them.
UI : Added some characters to text inputs so you can finally name your tulpa "xX_DeathAngel_Xx".
UI : Improved the look of the element chart.
Overworld : Added several trainer battles.
Overworld : Defeating trainers unlock their clothes and stuff.
Overworld : Whether or not tulpas join in against you is now based on whether they are chasing you and if you are reachable instead of being distance-based.
Overworld : You are now considered "sneaking" while not moving and on controller your detection range is based on how fast you are moving.
UX : Clicking on a monster in the formation before battles selects it.
Sound : Added an evolution jingle.
Animation : Gave everyone a cooler walk cycle.
Animation : Added scene transition animations to doors, waking up and battles.
Animation : Changed the death animation of trainers.
Animation : Added a falling-asleep/waking-up animation.
General : Changed some tulpa sizes and descriptions for consistency.
General : Improved venomiel's texture.

BALANCE CHANGES

Battle : Reduced healing in general.
Battle : Capped recoil damage to how much health the target had left.
Battle : Dodge chance is now more consistent throughout the game.
Battle : Made catching low level tulpas easier.
Battle : Made Insect-type strong against Normal-type but weak against itself.
Battle : Damage and healing are now rounded down to 1 instead of 0.
Battle : Retrieving and then re-summoning tulpas no longer remove their status effects.

BUG FIXES

Battle : Fixed a bug where starting a battle without a tulpa but later summoning it from the reserve wouldn't award it experience.
UI : Made element unlocking more reliable.
Overworld : Fixed several edge cases based around entering battle immediately after entering a door or pausing right as you get attacked.

KNOWN ISSUES

Overworld : Sometimes, switching clothes rapidly causes the wrong textures or models to load. This is purely visual and fixes itself when changing clothes again or closing and reopening the game.

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11 May 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.7.5

Here is another update just in time for Steam's Creature Collector Fest tomorrow. This update also focuses on improving battles. Specifically, making battles easier to understand. This will probably be the last "Battle Update" but battles will keep improving little by little ever

[May 11th 2025]

Here is another update just in time for Steam's Creature Collector Fest tomorrow. This update also focuses on improving battles. Specifically, making battles easier to understand. This will probably be the last "Battle Update" but battles will keep improving little by little every update. My plan is to add around 3 evolutions per update on average.

BALANCE
- Gave Myskit a passive called "Oracle".
- Added 3 new evolutions for Beeble, Cubble and Beasel.
- Balanced Beeble, Cubble and Beasel's skills (weaker starting skills, stronger skills after evolving).
- Added various new skills such as "Wind Slap", "Push" and "After-image".
- Reduced dodge chance significantly.
- Renamed "Immobile" to "Stubborn".

CHANGES
- UI : Redesigned the summary and bestiary screens.
- UI : Added tooltips to the bank and breeding screens.
- UI : Added tooltips to passives and skills so you know what they do.
- UI : Added an indicator to new things when they are added to your bestiary.
- UI : Inverted right and left click on tulpa portraits.
- BATTLE : Redesigned the entire battle arena and how things are rendered.
- BATTLE : You can now see the miss chance, health and mana of whatever you are attacking.
- BATTLE : The entire range of your attacks are now shown as dark tiles.
- BATTLE : It is now more obvious whose turn it is.
- BATTLE : Improved animations so tulpas face eachother while they attack one another.
- BATTLE : Status effects now have animations.
- BATTLE : Buffs now stack up to 3 times.
- BATTLE : Stats that are buffed will render as higher (and green) in the tulpa's tooltip.
- TEXTURE : Improved the textures of some tulpas (Especially Nyarn's yarn ball).
- CONTROLLER : Improved the feel of controller support in battle.
- ??? : Made several colors brighter (Element colors, UI elements, etc.).

BUG FIXES
- Fixed a bug where your own tulpas dying gave you experience.
- Fixed a bug where the experience bar would show 1 frame of being the wrong level sometimes.
- Fixed a bug where controller support would break during the tutorial's final fight.
- Fixed a bug where cubble's passive would steal nearby buffs and heals.

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01 May 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.7.4

On may 12th, Steam's Creature Collector Fest will begin. For this occasion, I've been preparing this version of Dream Catcher which focuses on making combat more fun. I hope you all enjoy it. CHANGES - VISUAL : All tulpa textures have been remade to have a more consistent angles,

[May 1st 2025]

On may 12th, Steam's Creature Collector Fest will begin. For this occasion, I've been preparing this version of Dream Catcher which focuses on making combat more fun. I hope you all enjoy it.

CHANGES
- VISUAL : All tulpa textures have been remade to have a more consistent angles, shadows and outlines.
- VISUAL : Greatly improved attack animations (Still pretty rudimentary).
- BATTLE : Tulpa will now dodge attacks based on how much agility/precision is involved.
- BATTLE : Complete overhaul of the skill system.
- BATTLE : Some skills now use mana/health as resource.
- BATTLE : Added status effects (Fire, Poison, Bleed) and stat buffs.
- BATTLE : Added passive abilities to certain tulpas.
- BATTLE : The element chart can be accessed during battle.
- BATTLE : Renamed "Give Up" to "Wake Up" to make it clear what will happen if you click.
- INTERFACE : Newly gained experience renders as yellow to see the difference easier.
- INTERFACE : When a tulpa levels up, its level will render as green to signify it changed.
- INTERFACE : You can see a tulpa's experience bar in their summary.
- INTERFACE : Added numerous tooltips to various UI elements (Ex: tulpa names in the bank).
- Added (some) evolutions.
- BALANCE : Made the main character's default light radius brighter so light tulpas are not as necessary.
- BALANCE : Reduced terracute's agility because a clay pot should not dodge this much.
- BALANCE : Catching a tulpa will now reward you with experience.
- BALANCE : Increased the experience you need to level up a little bit (Sharper curve).
- BALANCE : Previously, the stats you get each level was reduced to accentuate strategy over grinding. Stats have been increased so levels matter again, but are still lower than they used to be.
- BALANCE : Increased the trainer's defense early-game but doesn't increase quite as much each level.

BUG FIXES
- BATTLE : Fixed a bug where the enemies could use all of their skills, not just their equipped ones.
- BATTLE : Fixed a bug where you could summon dead tulpas with 0 health.
- BATTLE : Fixed a bug where pulling a draw would not wake you up and let you walk around with 0 health.
- INTERFACE : Fixed a bug where eggs could fly.
- INTERFACE : Fixed a bug where you could get additional egg info by checking their tooltip in the breeding app.
- SAVE FILES : Savefiles from the very first version of the game can now be opened again.

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08 Apr 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.7.3

CHANGES - Changed the name of multiple tulpas. - Changed the texture of multiple tulpas. - Some monsters had their colors tweaked to be less dull and desaturated. - Stats are now smaller for readability. - Stats also increase less per level to priorities strategy over grinding. -

06 Mar 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.7.2.1

REBALANCE - Made your starter have a 100% catchrate. - Almost tripled the amount of experience you get. BUG FIXES - Fixed a bug where newly caught monsters said they were caught by "Unknown". - Fixed a bug where catchrate was backward (The lower their health the harder to catch t

05 Mar 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.7.2

CHANGES - Trainers can now be attacked (Dying ends the battle). - Trainers can now gain experience and level up. - You can now start a battle with no tulpa equipped (The trainer cannot be unequipped). - Experience is now shared more fairly toward the tulpas who participate the mo

13 Feb 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.7.1

CHANGES - Improved the quality of monster icons. - Changed the name of Bibli to Cherubaby. - Added health and mana bars on battle tooltips. - Added the ability to move to a different tile during battle. BUG FIXES - Fixed Cherubaby's size and offset. - Fixed a crash that would hap

03 Feb 2025Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.7

IMPROVEMENTS - Redesigned the battle interface. - You can now click on the timeline portraits to target a tulpa. - Made it more clear that "Capture" happens on the trainer's turn. - Improved the glow effect on tulpas' eyes. - Improved ALL tulpa textures (lineart, colors, shading.

20 Nov 2024Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.6.1

CHANGES - Added full controller support (was previously partial support). - Added a keybind for "sneaking" (shift by default). - Added a keybind for "camera grab" (right click by default). - The camera is no longer paused when the game is paused so you can look around. - Tulpas i

16 Oct 2024Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.6.0.2

BUG FIXES - Fixed a bug that allowed you to duplicate or overwrite existing monsters in your monster bank. - Fixed a bug where the girl's changing room floor would be the wrong texture (for real this time). - Fixed a bug where the follower would remain after a battle where it die

13 Oct 2024Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.6.0.1

BUG FIXES - Fixed the character's colors being white by default despite having completed the tutorial sometimes. - Fixed a bug where the girl's changing room floor would be the wrong texture on some machines. - Fixed a bug where capturing a monster before you open the computer fo

11 Oct 2024Developer post

Dream Catcher 1.6

This is easily the biggest update to date. Most of the changes are graphical but there are a few quality of life improvements. BIG IMPROVEMENTS - Monsters are now made of proper god-fearing cardboard. - The monster portraits in the bestiary and summary screens are now animated an

[October 11th 2024]

This is easily the biggest update to date. Most of the changes are graphical but there are a few quality of life improvements.

BIG IMPROVEMENTS
- Monsters are now made of proper god-fearing cardboard.
- The monster portraits in the bestiary and summary screens are now animated and showcase the real size of monsters.
- Added the ability to tilt the camera temporarily by holding right click, Letting go of right click will make the camera gravitate back to the default position.
- Added a proper skybox with clouds and asters to go with the new ability to see the sky.
- Made a brand new tutorial with much better graphics.
- Improved the light effect of some followers.
- Added a light effect to more monsters when they follow you (Pupkin and Clunker).
SMALL IMPROVEMENTS
- Eggs render less pixelated.
- Increased the speed at which textures load.
- Added an option to turn off shadows (Can increase the framerate by up to 15% on some machines).
- Added an option for mouse sensitivity (Only affects the speed of the camera).
- Improved the scale, rotation and offset of various monsters and monster icons.
- Improved the general quality of most textures.
- Slightly improved the quality of shadows in general.
- Collectibles look better (They rotate and look like what they are supposed to be).

BUG FIXES
- Fixed a bug that would cause monsters to be duplicated when captured in some cases.
- Fixed a bug that let you catch 2 starters when they were too close together.
- Door highlights no longer render above the main character.
- Fixed all memory leaks.
- FIxed a bug where the lighting would get much worse at random intervals for no reason.
- There were multiple ways to make monsters appear for 1 frame before being replaced with another, these types of bugs have all been removed.

FIXED REGRESSIONS
- Re-added the slippery physics in the ice cave in Mint Mountain.
- Characters are now the correct colors in the save select screen instead of just grey.
- Fixed a bug that caused monsters to never be a recolor introduced in the previous update.
ADDED REGRESSIONS
- Temporarily turned off the rain in Sakura Shore and snow in Mint Mountain. These effects will be replaced by a proper weather system later.

This update is the largest update in Dream Catcher's history but I'd like to keep that momentum going. The next update will focus on improving battles. I intend to get rid of ALL regressions in the next update or the one after. This means evolutions and decent movepools are on their way. Here is an updated roadmap.

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FINALLY! A NEW UPDATE

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BUG FIXES

WHAT'S NEXT?

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