Quite honestly disappointed in this title! I was promised atmospheric horror and I got none of that. What I got was 4 puzzle rooms with 0 instructions, no gameplay tutorial, no menu, nothing showing objectives or even the button mapping for the character you are playing as. There is no story and the puzzles are beyond bizarre and make little sense. My playthrough took me 21:35 minutes to get through because most of it was fumbling around but you could honestly get through the whole thing in less than 5 minutes. I am not getting the "unsettling" or "surprisingly memorable" that the developers promised but I am 10000% getting the "confusing."

Link to my gameplay walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCysZqUyACM

Exit Dream is marketed as a “psychological horror” game with a dark, intriguing atmosphere and complex puzzles. Unfortunately, not all of that is true.

The scariest thing about the game is how poorly it runs — even on a machine that exceeds the recommended hardware specifications.

It is dark, in the sense that most of the otherwise nearly empty levels are very poorly lit, but any real sense of atmosphere is completely missing, at least for me.

As for the puzzles, there are a few of them — in fact, if you know what you’re doing, the entire game can be finished in about ten minutes. Sadly, they’re not satisfying at all, since their solutions lack any real logic. Add to that the fact that it’s sometimes almost impossible to even see the object you need, and the overall experience becomes genuinely frustrating.

In the end, Exit Dream isn’t fun, and it’s not worth your time — not even as a free game.

Video review:
https://youtu.be/QDUVEbDnDsk