Butterfly Dream is a compact retro-style Souls-like game. While returning to classic boxed-level exploration and combat, it weaves in the Daoist parable of Zhuang Zhou’s butterfly dream and elements from the Buddhist Diamond Sūtra.
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Q3 2025
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Butterfly Dream is a compact retro-style Souls-like game. While returning to classic boxed-level exploration and combat, it weaves in the Daoist parable of Zhuang Zhou’s butterfly dream and elements from the Buddhist Diamond Sūtra.
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The realm of Fargodia, a time long from now.

The ancient ritual of Butterfly Summoning has awakened the once-dormant providence.

King Verlenbair, now fully transformed into a spectral figure, stands poised at the crossroads of fate.

Behind him a silent battle brews, with an archenemy arriving from the depths of dreams.

The laments and hopes of past worlds signal both redemption and judgment, with each butterfly flutter heralding either a new dawn or the shadow of apocalypses.

Will this be the start of a new saga, or the revelation of something deeper?

As destinies intertwine, the story shall be unfolded.

[Retro-style box level]

"All appearances are illusory"

Go into strange dreams, explore dark medieval castles, and immerse yourself in the mysterious atmosphere of Gothic.

Step into a dangerous world and crack the intricate map of the courtyards.

Find a variety of weapons and props to overcome the powerful monsters that hinder you.

[classic fragmented narrative]

"There was once a man who dreamed that he had become a butterfly"

Take the dialogue of characters and the collection of props as clues to piece together the truth of dreams in confusion.

Experience the amplification and distortion of desire, and feel the struggle of people to become monsters.

[High-degree-of-freedom combat]

"Wash us with your precious blood and forgive us all our sins"

Confront the enemy of darkness and corrosion, and awaken the power of silence.

Unique weapons and equipment, a variety of fighting methods derived from "butterfly blade", choose the fighting style you are good at.

Combining the mechanism of traditional souls-like fighting, such as gun-parry, and changing coping strategies, it will bring you a hearty fighting experience.

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Notice For English gamers:

1. This game is developed majorly by 1 full-time person and 6 students. Thus we are currently out of resource to deliver the English audios at initial publishing.

2. But the game has 7-8 hour play length, 3 areas to explore, 10 weapon styles and multiple endings.  

3.Find Any bugs, issues? welcome to contact us by email:

hddy2000@qq.com

We promise we spare no effort to solve it.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: i7 equivalent
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Storage: 15 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 11
    • Processor: i9 or more
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4080
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Storage: 15 GB available space
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