Yume Nikki: Dream Diary is an adventure developed by Active Gaming Media, released 22 February 2018 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Yume Nikki: Dream Diary is
Yume Nikki: Dream Diary is an adventure game developed by Active Gaming Media and released in 2018. It was published by PLAYISM. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Yume Nikki: Dream Diary holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Yume Nikki: Dream Diary launched on 22 February 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow of the Colossus (2018) and Into the Breach. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow of the Colossus (2018), Into the Breach.
Official trailer
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