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DreamEscape

DreamEscape

2025·Jason Maclean Jones

Videos
13
Creators
10

Mainly reviews. DreamEscape is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 7 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, and 2 unboxings.

1 - 2 players
90 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

From BoardGameGeek

Great Cthulhu has trapped your sleeping mind in the Dreamlands. Your dream-self has shattered into multiple fragments, scattered throughout the dream world. It is your task to recover these lost fragments, unravel the story secrets and survive long enough to find the correct key and matching gate to escape and wake up! Dreamescape is a narrative exploration game driven by story card encounters. Each encounter offers roleplay-like choices that drive the game in divergent directions so the game evolves differently each time you play. Our novel keycode system triggers secret alternative storylines based on collected clues and items! Chance of success is based on your skills, equipment and lore gained so far, while repeated play rewards your experience as you uncover different parts of the story and memory of playing previously guides your choices! Play one of six unique characters in this solo or 2 player semi co-operative RPG-like survival horror game. Carefully manage your skills and resources, find rare items, gain secret knowledge and wield two uniquely powerful abilities - Deja vu and Lucid dreaming - to stay ahead of the minions of Cthulhu. Explore many hundreds of unique story encounters on your quest to recover the mind fragments and find a Dreamgate to let you wake from the nightmare. Failure will lead to insanity, locked forever in a dream within your own mind! The game offers multiple interwoven story arcs and plot lines to keep you occupied, with hidden puzzles, traps and lore to uncover but all knowledge comes at a price. The more you experience, the greater your chances of being driven to insanity! To win you must avoid, adapt, or overcome the many dangers of this nightmare world. -description from the publisher

DreamEscape

Watch first

Learn to play

DreamEscape - game setup for solo play6:31

DreamEscape - game setup for solo play

BadCatGames

BadCatGames

Review

Dreamescape | Playthrough28:04

Dreamescape | Playthrough

slickerdrips

slickerdrips

Watch it played

DreamEscape Halloween Livestream1:22:23

DreamEscape Halloween Livestream

BadCatGames

BadCatGames

Which DreamEscape video should I watch?

DreamEscape has 13 videos from 10 creators: 7 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 2 playthroughs and 2 unboxings. They date from 2023 to July 2026.

To learn the rules, start with "DreamEscape - game setup for solo play" by BadCatGames, which runs 7 min.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "Dreamescape | Playthrough" by slickerdrips. 6 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "DreamEscape Halloween Livestream" by BadCatGames, one of 2 playthroughs.

If you like it, try Zen Monkeys, also by Jason Maclean Jones, or Hercules and the 12 Labors, Sea of Legends and FateFlip: Washed Ashore, which share several of its mechanics.

All videos

DreamEscape Expansions - Unboxing & First Impressions (EN) | EpitrapaizoumeUnboxing11:50

DreamEscape Expansions - Unboxing & First Impressions (EN) | Epitrapaizoume

epitrapaizoume

epitrapaizoume

DreamEscape - Unboxing & First Impressions (EN) | EpitrapaizoumeUnboxing18:44

DreamEscape - Unboxing & First Impressions (EN) | Epitrapaizoume

epitrapaizoume

epitrapaizoume

DreamEscape - Finding a way out of a nightmare (Overview)Review38:17

DreamEscape - Finding a way out of a nightmare (Overview)

Gamebooks Guide

Gamebooks Guide

Canje Learns DreamescapePlaythrough2:52:25

Canje Learns Dreamescape

Canje Studios

Canje Studios

DreamEscape Halloween LivestreamPlaythrough1:22:23

DreamEscape Halloween Livestream

BadCatGames

BadCatGames

DreamEscape | prezentacja prototypu i pierwsze wrażeniaReview22:28

DreamEscape | prezentacja prototypu i pierwsze wrażenia

Tryb Solo

Tryb Solo

DreamEscape | how to play and prototype previewReview17:26

DreamEscape | how to play and prototype preview

Tryb Solo

Tryb Solo

DreamEscape Preview - Your Own Mind Is The Hardest Thing To Escape FromReview19:15

DreamEscape Preview - Your Own Mind Is The Hardest Thing To Escape From

BoardGameCo

BoardGameCo

Short Preview of DreamEscapeReview5:03

Short Preview of DreamEscape

ShelfClutter

ShelfClutter

Dreamescape | PlaythroughReview28:04

Dreamescape | Playthrough

slickerdrips

slickerdrips

How to play the board game DreamescapeHow to play35:03

How to play the board game Dreamescape

Jenders Gaming

Jenders Gaming

DREAMESCAPE: Preview. ¡Escapa de las Tierras del Sueño!Review13:36

DREAMESCAPE: Preview. ¡Escapa de las Tierras del Sueño!

El Automa

El Automa

DreamEscape - game setup for solo play6:31

DreamEscape - game setup for solo play

BadCatGames

BadCatGames

How to play the board game Dreamescape35:03

How to play the board game Dreamescape

Jenders Gaming

Jenders Gaming

Dreamescape | Playthrough28:04

Dreamescape | Playthrough

slickerdrips

slickerdrips

DreamEscape Preview - Your Own Mind Is The Hardest Thing To Escape From19:15

DreamEscape Preview - Your Own Mind Is The Hardest Thing To Escape From

BoardGameCo

BoardGameCo

Short Preview of DreamEscape5:03

Short Preview of DreamEscape

ShelfClutter

ShelfClutter

DreamEscape | prezentacja prototypu i pierwsze wrażenia22:28

DreamEscape | prezentacja prototypu i pierwsze wrażenia

Tryb Solo

Tryb Solo

DreamEscape - Finding a way out of a nightmare (Overview)38:17

DreamEscape - Finding a way out of a nightmare (Overview)

Gamebooks Guide

Gamebooks Guide

DREAMESCAPE: Preview. ¡Escapa de las Tierras del Sueño!13:36

DREAMESCAPE: Preview. ¡Escapa de las Tierras del Sueño!

El Automa

El Automa

DreamEscape | how to play and prototype preview17:26

DreamEscape | how to play and prototype preview

Tryb Solo

Tryb Solo

DreamEscape Halloween Livestream1:22:23

DreamEscape Halloween Livestream

BadCatGames

BadCatGames

Canje Learns Dreamescape2:52:25

Canje Learns Dreamescape

Canje Studios

Canje Studios

DreamEscape - Unboxing & First Impressions (EN) | Epitrapaizoume18:44

DreamEscape - Unboxing & First Impressions (EN) | Epitrapaizoume

epitrapaizoume

epitrapaizoume

DreamEscape Expansions - Unboxing & First Impressions (EN) | Epitrapaizoume11:50

DreamEscape Expansions - Unboxing & First Impressions (EN) | Epitrapaizoume

epitrapaizoume

epitrapaizoume

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Creators who cover this

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BadCatGames
BadCatGames
2 videos of this game
epitrapaizoume
epitrapaizoume
2 videos of this game
Tryb Solo
Tryb Solo
2 videos of this game
BoardGameCo
BoardGameCo
1 video of this game
Canje Studios
Canje Studios
1 video of this game
El Automa
El Automa
1 video of this game
Gamebooks Guide
Gamebooks Guide
1 video of this game
Jenders Gaming
Jenders Gaming
1 video of this game

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About DreamEscape

From BoardGameGeek:

Great Cthulhu has trapped your sleeping mind in the Dreamlands. Your dream-self has shattered into multiple fragments, scattered throughout the dream world. It is your task to recover these lost fragments, unravel the story secrets and survive long enough to find the correct key and matching gate to escape and wake up! Dreamescape is a narrative exploration game driven by story card encounters. Each encounter offers roleplay-like choices that drive the game in divergent directions so the game evolves differently each time you play. Our novel keycode system triggers secret alternative storylines based on collected clues and items! Chance of success is based on your skills, equipment and lore gained so far, while repeated play rewards your experience as you uncover different parts of the story and memory of playing previously guides your choices! Play one of six unique characters in this solo or 2 player semi co-operative RPG-like survival horror game. Carefully manage your skills and resources, find rare items, gain secret knowledge and wield two uniquely powerful abilities - Deja vu and Lucid dreaming - to stay ahead of the minions of Cthulhu. Explore many hundreds of unique story encounters on your quest to recover the mind fragments and find a Dreamgate to let you wake from the nightmare. Failure will lead to insanity, locked forever in a dream within your own mind! The game offers multiple interwoven story arcs and plot lines to keep you occupied, with hidden puzzles, traps and lore to uncover but all knowledge comes at a price. The more you experience, the greater your chances of being driven to insanity! To win you must avoid, adapt, or overcome the many dangers of this nightmare world. -description from the publisher

Designer

Jason Maclean Jones

Artists

Helge C. Balzer, Nele Diel, Connor Magill, Mario 'Magolobo' Romero

Publisher

BadCat Games

Categories

AdventureCard GameExplorationFantasy

Mechanics

Hand ManagementMemoryStorytelling & NarrativeSolo / Solitaire Game
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