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Daydreamer: Awakened Edition

Awaken into a nightmare filled with malicious aliens, grotesque mutants, emotionless robots, and giant bugs in Daydreamer: Awakened Edition, coming soon for PlayStation®4. The side-scrolling…

73 12 July 2016 ESRB T

Daydreamer: Awakened Edition is an arcade developed by Roland Studios, released 12 July 2016 on PlayStation 4.

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What Daydreamer: Awakened Edition is

Daydreamer: Awakened Edition is an arcade game developed by Roland Studios and released in 2016. It was published by Atlus. It is available on PlayStation 4 only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Awaken into a nightmare filled with malicious aliens, grotesque mutants, emotionless robots, and giant bugs in Daydreamer: Awakened Edition, coming soon for PlayStation®4. The side-scrolling platformer/shoot-em-up game was originally released on the PC, but the new Awakened Edition includes major gameplay updates and numerous refinements, for those brave enough to walk the perilous path of the daydreamer. Daydreamer: Awakened Edition is the story of the last human who rouses from an eternal sleep to an unfamiliar Earth. Aliens took over the planet thousands of years ago, and the nameless protagonist was kept in a stasis chamber as a twisted relic to memorialize their victory. However, the…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Daydreamer: Awakened Edition holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Daydreamer: Awakened Edition launched on 12 July 2016, within three weeks of Inside, Abzu, Starbound and Batman: The Telltale Series. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Inside, Abzu, Starbound, Batman: The Telltale Series.

Official trailer

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When did Daydreamer: Awakened Edition come out?
Daydreamer: Awakened Edition was released on 12 July 2016 for PlayStation 4.

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