DreamWeb

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 (60462)
What went wrong? You really don't know...	DOS	Black Wolf (37232)
A cyberpunk highlight in the history of adventure games	DOS	Apogee IV (2361)
Edgy, violent, gritty, confusing, moody... that's Dreamweb for you folks.	DOS	Zovni (9139)
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

Datormagazin	Amiga	Jul, 1995	5 out of 5	100
High Score	DOS	Jan, 1995	4 out of 5	80
Joystick	DOS	Oct, 1994	80 out of 100	80
Joystick	Amiga	Jan, 1995	79 out of 100	79
PC Gamer	DOS	Jan, 1995	76 out of 100	76
MikroBitti	DOS	Dec, 1994	68 out of 100	68
Abandonia	DOS	Dec 17, 2004	3 out of 5	60
Adventure Classic Gaming	DOS	Dec 11, 2006	2 out of 5	40
Adventure Gamers	DOS	May 23, 2008		30
Quandary	DOS	Apr 14, 1995		20

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Trivia

The second person you have to kill is called Sterling. Bruce Sterling is one of the most famous cyberpunk novel writers.