The first time I saw Dreams of Another, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was looking at. Q-Games’ latest, coming to Steam in 2025, takes the shape of a first-person shooter, but its world is a hazy, ever-morphing dreamscape, built from shifting clusters of light. The game’s announcement trailer makes it clear: this isn’t just about shooting things—it’s about shooting reality itself into existence.
That’s because, in Dreams of Another, your bullets don’t just damage enemies. Instead, every shot you fire constructs something—platforms, walls, entire environments—shaping the world around you as you play. This immediately makes it far more interesting than your usual FPS fare. It’s less about destruction and more about expression, which makes sense, given that the game comes from multimedia artist Baiyon, best known for his work on PixelJunk Eden and PixelJunk 4am, where his hypnotic, audio-visual landscapes were as much a part of the experience as the gameplay itself.
Speaking of which, the aesthetic here is chef’s kiss—a dreamy blend of point-cloud graphics and impressionistic smudges, like an AI hallucination of a lost 90s cyberpunk game. The story, meanwhile, teases cryptic figures like The Man in Pajamas and The Wandering Soldier, which, frankly, sound exactly like the sort of strange, melancholy characters you’d expect to meet in a dream.
If you’re curious, Dreams of Another will be playable at Day of the Devs 2025 in San Francisco this March, with another showing at GDC shortly after. If, like me, you’re already entranced by its reality-bending premise, you can wishlist it on Steam now.
Dreams of Another will also be launching on PlayStation 5 and PS VR2 this year.
