Don't Wake Me Up

$7.99

Release Date:: Feb 1, 2024
Developer:: Hosted Games
Publisher:: Hosted Games
Platforms:: Windows Mac Linux

Indie Adventure RPG Family Sharing Single-player Steam Cloud

About This Game

You’re trapped in a malfunctioning virtual reality with no memories. No memories, except of every video game you’ve ever played. Jack into a wild night in a virtual world you’ll never remember.

Armed with puns, pop culture, and a sharp dose of sarcasm, can you muddle your way through levels of satirical video game pastiches, back to reality?

Adventure through virtual worlds alongside a delusional gamer, an actual emo vampire (who really wishes he wasn’t an emo vampire), a poet from outer space, and a dashing princess in shining armor, among others! And perhaps, just perhaps, learn a bit too much about the kind of person you are when the real world isn’t watching.

A satire of the trapped-in-a-video-game genre, and a tragicomedy on the theme of dating sims.

Don’t Wake Me Up is a 400,000-word interactive novel about love in video games, where your choices control the story. Entirely text-based, and driven by your imagination. It is written by Baudelaire Welch, a professional game screenwriter currently working as a companion character designer for RPGs.

Play as nonbinary, male, female, straight or queer.
Travel through 6 worlds inspired by different video game genres
Wield a weaponised top hat
Rack your brains in a spaceship escape level inspired by old-school adventure games
Compete in a classical music-themed monster truck rally
Lose yourself in a cyberpunk casino
Date the Ultimate Video Game Fanservice Vampire
Or, date the Ultimate Video Game ‘Best Girl’ Waifu
A period piece honed in early 2010s internet cringe
Bifurcates entirely halfway through the game based on your love interest.

Sometimes true love is a wrong dialogue choice.

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Negative

1 user reviews

Positive

User #109225 english

12 hrs at review

Not Recommended

You're forced to romance Len for any chance at a good ending. You're also put on Asterius' route if you don't romance Len (though it's not necessarily romantic). I can only speak as to what happens on Asterius' route as I sure won't replay to experience Len's and I'm also going on memories over a year old now, but it got very cliché and frankly quite dull to read even before the endings. Things happening very fast that I didn't care for in chapter five, with a plot twist that ruined my investment in the characters and story. [spoiler] It turns out the characters' backgrounds were a complete lie. Were you happy for Em to see her long-lost brother? Were you excited to work as a team with Len, Asterius, Em, and Orion? Haha, nope. Seriously, why would you think that's a good plot twist? [/spoiler] I also wanted to see the rest of Lydia's story, but you don't even hear from her past chapter four (which itself was fine, though pretty short and unmemorable). I wasn't a fan of playing throu...