Dream Hopper

This game is really soothing & definitely relaxes me! I love it & recommend it My biggest complaint however is that the gravity of the game isn’t intuitive. This especially shows during repeating patterns (as you approach them, they seem like they’ll be extremely satisfying), and often you’ll skip one/every other platform while following the visual flow of the shapes. I’m not sure what the issue is (it feels like the character is too heavy?) but my guess is that giving the gravity a bit of an orbit around each platform piece may make it more satisfying. It also would be great to add a setting where you can turn off the arrow pointing to the nearest untouched platform so that players can explore the area like a playground without visual annoyance. This app really is one of the best I’ve tried in a long time & I only critique it because I’d love to see improvements. I highly recommend downloading it!

The gameplay itself is very calming, you tap and/or swipe from piece to piece, bringing color and light into each new shape to create a beautiful picture. That completion is so rewarding, it made me want to keep making pictures; fulfilling my creativity and my artistic itch. The style of the “dreams” is new to me and is very inspiring, it’s giving me new ways of thinking in my art. Then, you have these cute little characters that you can collect. They become the little ball you control to creat pictures, each one offering different visual affects to the piece. This wonderful thing creates a whole new layer that brings new light to the “journey is better than the destination” ideology. It shows us that the process of creation is just as beautiful and important as the piece. The characters also have cute little names and fun faces but the face goes away as you’re “painting.” I haven’t been bombarded with ads either, although I don’t mind as I want to support these creators and hopefully give them enough to get more from them. I recommend this 10,000,000,000%.

Dream Hopper is, in my opinion, a beautiful game. I find it genuinely soothing to play, and although I’m not the biggest fan of the decreasing percentage of new dreams as you progress, I’ve learned not to mind the repetition. You still earn coins when completing an old level, so it’s not like there’s any drawbacks besides a missed chance at collection completion. The game has a very calming and pretty atmosphere. The gameplay itself can be somewhat frustrating when it comes to certain levels (the shapes are a bit hard to jump between at times), but such issues can be resolved in five to ten seconds. The only thing I dislike is the limit of three dreams you can play through in a row; when I started the game and was given five star dusts I expected to have five each time, but surprisingly, I was limited to three. Star dusts are easy to earn, and can be obtained through watching short ads, so I don’t mind too much.