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The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2

Cockroach Inc. / May 11, 2012 / Adventure, Casual, Indie

Singleplayer

windows
Steam Deck Playable

2 playing now

The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.

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What's new

The Festive Update

2021-12-14

Festive Greetings everyone! We just released a small set of tweaks. They don't change the game in any major way, but might enable us to translate it sometime in the future. Don't ask me about dates regarding that - because I don't know. It won't be anytime soon though... Update notes: • Started work on enabling translations (very preliminary) • Fixed translation related bug • Fixed bug with achievement descriptors not working • Fixed bug where the game tried to unlock deprecated achievements • Tweaked game graphics • Updated legacy code • Tweaked UI • Fixed typos Don't be shy if you encounter any problems in the game. Cheers, - a

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What players say

Very Positive

88% positive, 1,546 reviews

Recommended41 hrs played

I played this game for the first time 10 years ago. Back then I got distracted and never finished it, which is the fate of many games in my library. But what prevented The Dream Machine from being one of those games which I never pick up again, was the atmosphere. The writing and the visuals mix in this perfectly weird, humorous and profound way that really stuck with me, and made me remember this game from time to...

7 found this helpful, 2026-03-08

Recommended26 hrs played

The Dream Machine is one of the most beautiful games I have ever played. Even though I finished it a year ago, its images continue to linger in my mind, transforming into ideas that inspire my own work as an artist. From the very first moment you enter its handcrafted surreal worlds, the sense of being in a dream becomes immersive. The characters dreams are not merely decorative scenes, they are psychoanalytic...

6 found this helpful, 2025-10-19

Not recommended15 hrs played

I mostly liked it but can't recommend this version of the game since there is a remaster in the works that will be done in a new engine and have other changes, I would probably wait for that one, because there is definitly something here that could be great, but the UI, extreme slowdowns and various crashes and jank, sour the experience. The plot also goes completely of the rails in the last chapter. I might have...

4 found this helpful, 2026-09-27