Deep Sleep: Point & Click Horror Game Review
Deep Sleep is a trilogy consisting of three interconnected chapters: Deep Sleep, Deeper Sleep, and The Deepest Sleep. Just like Alice Is Dead that I reviewed earlier, it's an amazing online horror game of the point and click genre.
The storyline is guiding you through a creepy lucid dreaming experience of the main character. You find yourself inside a nightmare, trying to find a way out to reality. In order to wake up you are exploring different locations solving puzzles by finding, modifying and applying objects. You will also learn the details of the organization of the dream realm and its dwellers during playing. The game offers you two different endings. Both are not happy.
What Makes This Game Great
1) Deeply evil atmosphere. The music is perfectly creepy. The drawings are
somehow original—made in a pixel art style—minimalistic, a bit primitive,
sometimes a bit childish, but in general very enjoyable.
2) Interesting plot, featuring lucid dreaming-related details. Realistic ones,
such as sleep paralysis and feeling a presence of an undefined evil entity in
your room, as well as fictional ones, such as gradation of the "dream realm"
into levels or possessing of a sleeping body by an evil entity from the dream
world. So whether you are familiar with practicing lucid dreaming preferring a
sceptically materialistic approach, or you are fond of all that New Age
mythology, telling about "astral projections" and "out-of-body experiences",
you will find some familiar details in this wonderful story. I believe that
Scriptwelder—the
author of the game—probably practiced it himself.
3) Exciting and intriguing gameplay. The number of locations is enough to satisfy the need for an enjoyable playing. The quests are interesting and sometimes quite complicated. But in case if you find them too difficult, there is a walkthrough, built right into the game.
4) It does scare. Most part of the scenes are dark, but calm—you have as much time as you want to solve a puzzle and to enjoy the creepy atmosphere. But there are also intense frightening scenes, starting suddenly after them, that need your fast reaction. As well as a few scaring "screamer"-like moments—not at all annoying, but used in a quantity limited enough to make the playing expierence exciting and enjoyable.
Links to play online:
Chapter 1: Deep Sleep
Chapter 2: Deeper Sleep
Chapter 3: The Deepest Sleep
Official blog of Scriptwelder, where you can find his other games
And his profile on Newgrounds
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