Niko: Through The Dream

Release Date: July 10, 2015

Adventure, FPP, puzzle elements, indie games, singleplayer

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A minimalistic adventure game from the independent studio of Paint. In this FPP title, we try to help the main heroine in returning to the real world. The gameplay emphasizes traveling, solving logical puzzles and avoiding traps. Puzzles revolve around colors, shapes and sounds, meaning that the game requires almost ceaseless concentration from player.

Niko: Through The Dream is an intriguing adventure game with minimalistic, dreamlike graphics. It was developed by Paint for PCs. In the game, the players try to solve puzzles to help the protagonist go back to the real world.

In Niko: Through The Dream, we travel through different islands. Each of those presents events of the protagonist’s life in a rather oniristic way. The game offers a differential gameplay mechanics that does not lack for all kinds of traps and other challenging logic puzzles. The challenges we have to face are based on various colors, shapes and sounds. Niko: Through The Dream sometimes requires us to pay great attention for it is the only way to see meaningful details of the story it presents.

The soundtrack adjusts to the situation, oscillating between merry, sad and even dark themes – all to stimulate the player’s imagination as much as possible. If we combine it with minimalistic, even raw, graphics characteristic of Portal series, the whole lets us really dive into the adventure.

Last updated on August 14, 2015

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[1:37] Niko: Through The Dream launch trailer

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