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- Bluegreen (UK), June 22, 2025

- rabbitking, June 12, 2025

- Mono, May 29, 2025

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Immersive environment, fun puzzles, geography confusing but intriguing, May 19, 2025
by kqr (Sweden)

I had a delightful time in the Dreamhold and its surroundings. The pacing is slow and the game rewards methodical exploration. At first the geography was confusing enough that I had trouble mapping it, but then once it fell into place it made complete sense. My spoilerful map here: https://i.xkqr.org/dreamhold_map_spoilers.png

The game lets you finish once the main puzzles are solved, even with many side-puzzles left hanging. I think I must have missed a few portions of the game, because I didn't get a good grasp of the narrative. However, the puzzles and environment made up for most of the weak narrative. I am impressed by how much character the author manages to give the varied environments of the Dreamhold using rather few words. I truly feel like I've been there, explored the paths, and looked out over the mountain sides.

I'm not a huge fan of big maps (because when I get stuck, there's so much to explore) but it didn't bother me all that much in the Dreamhold, because the rooms had so much character, and the connections between rooms felt so natural. I quickly learned to type out a path from one room to any other with my eyes closed.

There are plenty of red herrings around which had the effect of slightly discouraging my explorations, but I suppose someone with more patience than I would find the uncertain reward for exploration more appealing.

In the end: fun puzzles, probably with many more hidden secrets than I uncovered, maybe a so-so narrative, but excellent environmental immersion. If you've ever wanted to explore a wizard's home in an isolated place, this is where you can do that.

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- iaraya, March 28, 2025

- HereticMole, February 4, 2025

- jsnlv (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA), January 19, 2025

- Irheh, December 25, 2024

- aluminumoxynitride, December 24, 2024

- GaryW, June 20, 2024

- Blooky22, June 3, 2024

- comfysynth, January 23, 2024 (last edited on January 29, 2024)

- elysee, September 14, 2023

- SandwhichMeat, September 9, 2023

- ledzeppelin295, August 6, 2023

- Bell Cyborg (Canada), July 21, 2023

- egostat (Purgatory of Social Ineptitude), March 31, 2023

- biscuit, February 15, 2023

Game that got me into IF, December 17, 2022

This was one of the first IF games I ever played and my favorite one to date. The story is compelling, the puzzles are fun, and the world is complex enough that I'm still thinking about the game almost a month after playing it. It's definitely one that I'll play more than once, as well as one that I recommend to people to get them into IF.

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- UmbrellaPie, November 9, 2022

- Cerfeuil (Somewhere Near Computer), October 11, 2022

- TheBoxThinker, September 11, 2022

- purplepoet01, August 18, 2022

- thesacredbagel, July 25, 2022

- Amun100 (UK), July 25, 2022


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