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Bad Dream: Purgatory

73% positive of 41 Steam reviews

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Released
2023
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam

Made by Desert Fox.

About the game

Explore a surreal landscape filled with unused characters from a cancelled project. Will you give them purpose, or will they be doomed to suffer?

Tagged by players

  • Abstract
  • Hand-drawn
  • Surreal
  • Point & Click
  • Psychological
  • Multiple Endings
  • 2.5D
  • Choices Matter
  • Lore-Rich
  • Horror
  • Dark
  • 1990's

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What players say

  • Recommended
    I am a fan of the series and have supported through all of the games, Dev is doing a great job, don't get discouraged! Without trial and error, there would be no learning! I wanted to play Purgatory after the update to 2D (that's my fave) but I'm having an issue where my mouse is lagging majorly and glitching so badly it renders the game unplayable. I've went into my mouse settings and changed my htz to 125, and…

    26 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    I really like the themes of creative burnout and self-doubt that have defined the series so far, although I haven't always been a fan of the execution. I enjoy this story's plot and the freedom we have to rewrite the story as we so choose, but I guess things just didn't hit for me while playing this. Then again, I just spent the majority of this game having to look up achievement guides because completionism is a…

    7 h played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Interesting idea overall (what happens to half-formed ideas that are left to rot?), but I could not enjoy this game. I found the game controls very awkward and the game play confusing. However, what made me really dislike this game was the open-world portion that unlocks after you complete the first portion of the game. Although I applaud the unique take on the choose-your-own-adventure idea, there are simply too…

    1.7 h played when written. 11 found it helpful.

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