I didn't fall asleep because I was tired.
I'm just hiding in a dream—because waking life feels too heavy.

Interesting little point-and-click adventure game dealing with heavy topics such as anxiety and stress from studying. Think it's a bit too on the nose for my taste, but it's a nice little atmospheric adventure nonetheless. Lots of cool visuals. I can't say I personally relate heavily to any of the topics covered, but I'm sure this game means something to a lot of people who do.

-The main game is honestly pretty good. Whilst it's only about 30 mins - 1 hour long, it has a nice little story, and feels like a decent standalone game. The writing isn't anything amazing, but it's good enough for what it intends to be, and I can respect it for that.
-Mechanically it plays purely with the mouse. You can get info on stuff, look at something, or interact with something - depending on whatever icon is present on it. Very simplistic, but it works fine and I didn't encounter any bugs there. The checkpoints in the base game are also nicely spread apart and getting the 2 endings takes very little setup.
-Overall not the best VN I've ever played, but it was fine for the price.

-This is where the game starts getting fairly bad in my opinion. The DLC is about 2x the content of the base game, which sounds great, but doesn't feel that great. In my opinion the DLC severely lacked in the kind of "relatable" nature the character presented in the base game, and the writing is basically nonexistent. There's 3 new endings in the DLC, but 2 of these are incredibly basic and feel a bit too similar to the base game's to be interesting to me. The "true" ending also requires you to collect 10 hidden calendars, which can be a little tedious to collect again if you missed one (especially the ending ones).
-Mechanically it's almost the same. The exception to this is "quick time events" which feel incredibly out of place in a VN game. The timers on these are unforgiving and tedious, there's almost no indication of these happening, and failing them usually results in a massive amount of repeat dialogue to sift through. This also makes it apparent just how much it sucks to have to click through every single line of dialogue 50 times. There's basically no reason for the game to lack a simple "hold shift/ctrl to skip dialogue" feature. Combine this with the multitude of ways you can, (and will), die, and you'll quickly realise just how tedious the DLC gets.
-Most of the achievements are also concentrated in the DLC (like 1/4 being death related), which amplifies the aforementioned dialogue issue even harder. This is especially apparent with the 8 or so different deaths you can experience in the last chapter of the game. I literally got an autoclicker to skip through the dialogue for me because it became such a slog to get through eventually.

It's fine as a standalone game, but don't expect it to be the next "Milk inside a bag of milk..." as it really doesn't deliver on that. I would definitely discourage it if you're a completionist as the charm will quickly wear off near the end.