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MobyRank MobyScore
Amiga
...
3.0
DOS
65
3.9

Description

Ryan, a bartender from a dystopian future can't sleep peacefully for months. His nights are sequences of nightmares and strange dreams, days with frequent black-outs with strange visions, until one night a figure in monk attire appears to him, and tells him the story of the seven evil ones, uniting to destroy to Dreamweb, the only barrier between the world and darkness. The monk makes a proposition: Ryan becomes the deliverer: the one who would keep the Dreamweb safe by killing those who try to destroy it.

Descending into paranoia and just wanting dreams to stop, Ryan accepts the mission, then wakes up in a puddle of cold sweat, next to his beloved girlfriend in her house, and late for work. Again.

DreamWeb is a top-down adventure game set in a gritty futuristic/dystopian city. Each location takes only a small portion of the screen without panning (except an optional small zoom window in the corner that follows the cursor), with the player interacting with objects and people by simply clicking them. Ryan has a limited inventory space, and as a lot of objects can be picked up (many without any use), the player must rationalize what might be useful and just filler. Dialogue is straight forward, with no options, but still required to advance in the game (to find new locations, for instance). In situations where many adventure games often feature an indirect approach to solve a problem, Ryan often faces himself with situations where it's "killed or be killed", which result in deaths (sometimes of innocents).

The story isn't much developed inside the game, but the original release of the game included Diary Of a (Mad?) Man, a 40-page diary telling the descent of Ryan into madness, or his destiny, written by Stephen Marley provides a complete background to the events leading to the start of the game.

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User Reviews

Blood, sex, and point & click DOS Unicorn B. Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (53164)
What went wrong? You really don't know... DOS Black Wolf (37274)
A cyberpunk highlight in the history of adventure games DOS Apogee IV (2364)
Edgy, violent, gritty, confusing, moody... that's Dreamweb for you folks. DOS Zovni (9114)
One of the best atmospheric cyberpunk games ever released DOS Emanuele Ravasi (20)
Ah, the mixed-bag that is edgy software... DOS Vance (97)
Everything games are not anymore. DOS Sonic Terminator2 (3)
100 % pure atmosphere DOS n-n (52)

The Press Says

Pelit DOS Aug, 1994 91 out of 100 91
Kingdom of Desire DOS Feb 26, 2007 9 out of 10 90
Joystick DOS Oct, 1994 80 out of 100 80
High Score DOS Jan, 1995 4 out of 5 80
Joystick Amiga Jan, 1995 79 out of 100 79
PC Games (Germany) DOS Oct, 1994 76 out of 100 76
ntsc-uk DOS Mar, 2006 7 out of 10 70
PC Player (Germany) DOS Nov, 1994 66 out of 100 66
Abandonia DOS Dec 17, 2004 3 out of 5 60
Adventure Gamers DOS May 23, 2008 1.5 Stars1.5 Stars1.5 Stars1.5 Stars1.5 Stars 30

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Trivia

Make no mistake, this game is violent. It also became the focus of attention in '94 because it contained a single sex scene.


This entry was contributed by EboMike Bronze Star Contributing Member (2591) and Soulbreather (18)
 

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