Hypnagogia 催眠術
A downloadable game for Windows
Hypnagogia is an exploration in themes involving deep dreams, liminal spaces, sleep paralysis demons, and much more.
Can you collect all 8 dream crystals and finally wake up?
Influenced by the nostalgia-fueled polygonal games from the mid and late 90's, Hypnagogia takes players on a short but intriguing journey through various worlds inspired by real dreams.
Hang out with cats in a relaxing garden temple, mingle with sea creatures in an underwater quarry, or find meaning in a city full of strange people. Everyone has something to say, so meet and greet with every denizen you can!
Each hand-crafted and detailed environment has been amalgamated from different dream journal recordings over the years, with entries used by both the dev and some users on the LSD Revamped Discord channel.
When dreams turn to nightmares, will you overcome the challenge of returning to reality?
If you enjoy this game, check out more from this dev below! There's also a comprehensive commentary file within the game folder if you're interested in knowing the origins of each dream.
Descension - a Quake-inspired procedurally-generated FPS
Infectoid - a Metroidvania adventure through a computer
KNOWN BUGS/ISSUES
- Mouse/controller sensitivity does not save between areas.
- There's a possibility any one of the quest givers/npcs may bug out, resulting in not being able to complete the dream. If this happens, leave and reenter through the dream hub.
- There is no way to save progress in the game currently.
- I don't have plans on building for any platform besides Windows currently. My apologies in advance, but I don't have any way to test those builds and would rather ensure a cleaner experience.
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Development log
- Happy 4th Anniversary to HypnagogiaNov 25, 2024
- Hypnagogia 2 Trailer and Project Page now live!Jul 17, 2021
- Hypnagogia Sequel AnnouncementApr 16, 2021
- Hypnagogia 催眠術 - Official Game TrailerDec 02, 2020
- Hypnagogia 催眠術 - SoundtrackNov 30, 2020
- Hypnagogia POST JAM UPDATE NOW LIVE!Nov 29, 2020
- First post-jam update coming this weekend!Nov 28, 2020
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Your wish is safe with me.
Why did I wait so long to play this? I had no idea it was going to be this good. Wonderful game all around!
A timeless classic :') Thank you!
I wish that the game didn't impose its own control scheme, in a generic way. I can understand wanting to have controller plug-and-play for official Xbox and PS controllers, but for anything more generic than that, I wish I could pair the game with JoyToKey.
top shelf
This game was really good so I made a video about it.
I really enjoyed playing through Hypnagogia. You nailed the dreamlike 90s Japan / PS1 aesthetic. Its almost like vibe of the original PS1 boot up sound, only turned into a whole game!
The influence of games like Mega Man Legends and Silent Hill are very evident too, and it made me chuckle when the rabbit I talked to said the said the same thing!
I haven't beaten the game yet... only gotte to the rainy city level so far, but I really enjoyed playing. Great work!
Great game!!!
Not the instrumental Terraria music HAHA
I love this game to absolute bits, and I originally found it around the time it came out 4 years ago. It probably doesn't mean much, but I hold this game very close to me due to the fact that I found it when I was going through a very rough time in my life. But other than that, I love this game a lot. I really hope more people find and play this game along with its newer release on Steam, as I believe it deserves so much more attention. This game is definitely worth your time.
bro i have no idea how this happen. i was playing the game as normal then i had to plug in my laptop to charge and all of a sudden the game turned widescreen with the hint icons small and the tab menu just became too big to fit in the screen
the mannequin level was so spookyyyyy omggg. i really enjoyed the whole thing tho :) especially all the silly little lines you find you talking to characters. the snowman level was a much needed break from the spookiness placed in such a convenient area :)
banger
Excellent game, good job! I loved the atmosphere and the scenery of the dreams and I really enjoyed how they progressively became darker. Couldn't find the snow dream though and I closed the game after finishing, losing my progress :(
when you're in the mannequin level, go through the wall right behind the mannequin you feed. hope this helps :)
Really enjoyed the visuals and the progression of the dreams. Last level visuals were fantastic. Great work!!
Wonderful PSX-style game. I loved the vibes: the music, the graphics, the writing! I also thought it was incredible how you spent 8 hours a day for 29 days working away at this game--everything in it shows!
Great atmosphere, was great to look at! A little too linear for my taste though. And too much talking to NPC's that had nothing interesting to say.
man, this is so personal.. i love this
Really great game, each ambiance is really well made! We played with a friend passing the controller each dream.
Only one thing was really frustrating: why did you made the jumps in the hub so difficult? 😅
you can sprint jump, i had that problem too :)
nossa, que jogo perfeito, eu adoro a estética e o sentimento de profunda paz e adimiração que esse jogo me dá, criador, sinceramente, você arrasou, pelo fato de eu adorar jogos com essa estética, esse jogo tá guardado no meu coracão ♡, primeira brasileira aqui!!! :))
awesome game, i hope you'll make more like this
This looks like it was inspired by sky children of light but It looks really good.
Great game, thanks for making it
(is this LSD dream emulator)
What a fun game to explore
Excellent game!!
i remember playing this like 1 year ago, its so great. i wish there was more games like this where you just explore different and unique little worlds
I really love this game! Like a trippier version of Spyro in the best way imaginable! The soundtrack was great too, and I really liked Gogi's info drops about the game's development :)
My only critiques are:
Other than that, perfection!
This is literally everything I love in an indie game. Its weird, its mysterious, and its weird
will there be a mac version? :)
Looking just by the page, this is gonna feel like hypnospace but freeroam to me
is this a sequel to Boundless Dreams??
Predecessor, actually
Love it, retro vibe and all.
muy buen juego, pronto lo terminare! 👍
That's how it's designed to be. No lag from my end. Played the game with integrated graphics (UHD 630 with Intel 8th Gen i7 CPU). No Windows Enable or any other boost required for me, other than the CPU hitting 4.1 GHz while I'm playing. :)
absolutely amazing, good job
That is so good! Love the game, second level is so so amazing, that I want to be reborn within it I sweaar. However, the saving progress of the game is really bad, one day I hav all of dreams umlocked, and then bam, GONE. Sooo yea, mayby its just me thing but I hope you will find a way to fix it.
I appreciated so much this game, then I will try some other made by you buddy. Is it okay? Five stars is fair for my experience. Thanks for share.
damn
100/10