A surreal JRPG where battles shift between party-based and tactical combat and worlds change in style, scale, and logic. Explore strange places, uncover fractured memories, and discover what lies beneath the Dream Ocean.

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Planned Release Date: November 2026

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About This Game

THE DEEPER YOU GO, THE STRANGER IT GETS

Andi cannot speak, and his memories do not fit together. In a frozen island city beneath an endless night, strange companions gather around him. Beyond its familiar streets, places are appearing that seem to follow rules of their own.

Dream Ocean combines turn-based party battles, larger tactical encounters, and exploration through worlds that change in style, scale, and logic. Follow Andi and his companions through an adventure about bonds, identity, and memory, where even the familiar begins to feel wrong.

WHEN THE SURROUNDINGS BECOME THE BATTLEFIELD

Combine your party's strengths, exploit weaknesses, use status effects, and break enemy defenses. In party battles, the right combination of abilities can make all the difference.

Some conflicts expand into tactical encounters in the area around you. Positioning, terrain, height, objectives, and even nearby characters can change the fight. Think beyond your next skill: think about how to use the whole battlefield.

CHANGE YOUR CLASS, NOT EVERYTHING YOU'VE LEARNED

Confront mysterious beings called Archetypes and link them with your heroes to change their classes, abilities, and combat roles. Unlock and evolve classes, then choose which learned skills to carry into another build. Experiment with what to keep and what to change as each character takes on a new role.

Between journeys, enter the Mind Garden, a strange world within Andi's mind where Archetypes gather, abilities grow, and the person he is becoming begins to take shape.

A NEW ABILITY. A REASON TO RETURN.

Field Arts are powers for more than battle. Break obstacles, open routes, reach hidden resources, and discover new activities. Some Archetypes awaken these abilities, giving you new ways to explore familiar places.

Visit homes and shops, follow rumors into dark woods, or take a path no quest sent you down. Return with a new ability to reach something you could not before. Familiar places can also offer changed conversations, new opportunities, and things you finally understand.

Curiosity is often more useful than a quest marker.

THE STYLE CHANGES BECAUSE THE WORLD DOES

Freely explored 3D environments give way to carefully composed scenes, pixel-art spaces, and unfinished drawings touched by moving color. Venture into tiny worlds suspended above an ocean and impossible places where reality fractures into a visual language of its own.

FOLLOW WHAT DOESN'T FIT

Follow Andi's journey, or look deeper through optional conversations, character stories, memories, world lore, and philosophical questions. Hidden Archetypes, optional dungeons, unusual encounters, and unsettling discoveries wait beyond the obvious route. Some places may remain unseen on a first journey.

A PLACE FULL OF SECRETS

Fish, cook, take on duels and challenges, seek hidden rewards, and develop your party through multiple progression systems. An original soundtrack, composed for Dream Ocean and brought to life through recorded performance, accompanies the journey.

KEY FEATURES

  • Two ways to fight. Face enemies in turn-based party battles and larger tactical encounters where positioning, terrain, and nearby characters matter.

  • Build your party through Archetypes. Unlock and evolve classes, then carry selected learned skills into new builds to create your own combinations.

  • Exploration that rewards curiosity. Discover hidden paths, optional dungeons, secrets, and unusual encounters with minimal hand-holding.

  • Field Arts beyond battle. Break obstacles, open routes, reach hidden resources, and discover new activities.

  • A world of changing styles. Explore free-roaming 3D environments, carefully composed scenes, pixel-art spaces, and surreal worlds of unfinished drawings.

  • A story with deeper layers. Follow the main journey or explore optional dialogue, character stories, memories, lore, and philosophical themes.

  • People and places worth revisiting. Return to discover new conversations, stories, opportunities, and changes in familiar places.

  • A place full of secrets. Take on duels and challenges, fish, cook, seek hidden rewards, and develop your party through multiple progression systems.

  • An original composed and recorded soundtrack. Hear music written for Dream Ocean and brought to life through recorded performance.

  • A layered psychological thriller. Strange allies, fractured memories, and unsettling discoveries draw you into a mystery that grows more surreal the deeper you go.

The ocean remembers more than it explains.

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: General Mature Content

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-6300 or equivalent
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 620 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 / AMD Radeon R7 260X or equivalent
    • Storage: 3000 MB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX-compatible sound card
    • VR Support: None.
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. Gamepad recommended. Requirements may change during development.
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10 / Windows 11 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or better
    • Memory: 8192 MB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 560 / Intel Iris Xe or better
    • Storage: 5000 MB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX-compatible sound card
    • VR Support: None.
    • Additional Notes: SSD recommended. Gamepad recommended for the best experience. Requirements may change during development.
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 11 Big Sur or later
    • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core i5, 64-bit
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Apple M1 integrated GPU / Intel Iris Plus Graphics / AMD Radeon Pro 555 or equivalent
    • Storage: 3000 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Standard macOS audio device
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. Gamepad recommended. Requirements may change during development.
    Recommended:
    • OS: macOS 12 Monterey or later
    • Processor: Apple M1 or better / Intel Core i7, 64-bit
    • Memory: 8192 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Apple M1 integrated GPU or better / AMD Radeon Pro 560X or better
    • Storage: 5000 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Standard macOS audio device
    • Additional Notes: Apple Silicon recommended. SSD recommended. Gamepad recommended for the best experience. Requirements may change during development.
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / SteamOS 3.0 or later
    • Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-6300 or equivalent
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 620 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 / AMD Radeon R7 260X or equivalent with Vulkan or OpenGL support
    • Storage: 3000 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Standard Linux-compatible audio device
    • VR Support: None
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. Steam Deck compatibility is targeted but not guaranteed until final testing. Requirements may change during development.
    Recommended:
    • OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / SteamOS 3.0 or later
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or better
    • Memory: 8192 MB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 560 / Intel Iris Xe or better with Vulkan or OpenGL support
    • Storage: 5000 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Standard Linux-compatible audio device
    • VR Support: None
    • Additional Notes: SSD recommended. Gamepad recommended for the best experience. Steam Deck compatibility is targeted but not guaranteed until final testing. Requirements may change during development.
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