Lucid Dream Adventure

I absolutely love this game! The story line is haunting and beautiful. The graphics are simple yet amazing. I paid to play to the end of the game and it was well worth it! The variety of the puzzles is refreshing, the clues are mostly very helpful. The puzzles are challenging, some were so challenging I had to look up the answers on the Walkthroughking website when the clue wasn’t enough. This developer has a couple more games in the store, I will be sure to play them. The hints stopped somewhere in chapter 12 and I really needed those hints! I had to look online for help. Also the last hint in chapter 12 is incorrect and most of the solutions online show it working, but it doesn’t for the IOS version. I did eventually find it online. Someone mentioned a glitch in that chapter where Lucy uses an unbrella to fight a monster and her character disappears. You don’t need to re-start the level (which will take you back quite a ways!). Just tap on a puzzle piece and then on the monster and she’ll re-appear.

This games play was easy to figure out, but also difficult enough without using the hint book for playing. It had themes from childhood lore and also myths that you would learn growing up. This game reminded me of Pan’s labyrinths, a Spanish movie, I highly suggest you watch. It also reminded me of Alice in wonder, but more of the game called Alice into Madness. Highly suggest you play that as well. Comes on PC and XBOX. I live in the State where the Dali museum is so it was interesting to see how that, as well as monsters, and faith were brought into this game with being apparent at all. This game is very enjoyable and honestly I felt like I was Lucy, the main character as I was playing because I too was confused at moments. I purchased the game and I don’t feel like I wasted a dime. I truly hope the creators make new games that are just as interesting and intriguing as this one. I did experience one glitch, it was during the last part of the game but I just closed the app and reopened it. Life isn’t perfect and neither are games. Anyone who felt that one glitch made this game a 4 star game, I’d hate to be them.

This would be a five star review, if the game played cleanly. Even with the glitches, I’d love to see more from this designer. The free introduction gives you a good chance to test out the game, and if you unlock the full game you’ll get plenty more story and puzzles - some of them fairly complex. The surreal nature of the storyline means you need think outside the box for some solutions, but the mechanisms of the puzzles are pretty standard. Navigation is no problem, and the story is interesting w/ lots of classical lit and art references throughout the game. There are only two major issues: One is that using the hint guide can cause the game to crash, and for a few of the puzzles, you may need it! Problem two happened with an in-play glitch toward the end of the game. It left the game active but my character invisible (& unplayable). I rather than leave the game, I chose to restart the level not realizing how far back that would send me! So, fair warning: While new play areas have to load pretty often, each chapter is far longer than the load screens would make you expect. If you encounter a glitch that doesn’t crash the game, I suggest you try exiting and restarting from “continue” first to avoid losing a lot of progress.