Dreamcore isn’t a game that’s meant to scare you outright—it’s a game that lingers in your mind long after you turn it off. With its masterful use of liminal spaces, ambient sound design, and non-linear exploration, it creates an existential horror experience unlike anything else. However, its lack of structure, slow pacing, and aimless wandering may not appeal to everyone. Players looking for traditional horror elements might find it lacking, while those who love surreal, psychological horror will appreciate its unsettling beauty. If you’re the kind of player who finds the thought of wandering an endless, empty pool complex or a silent, uninhabited suburb unnerving, Dreamcore is absolutely worth experiencing. But if you need clear objectives, structured gameplay, or tangible threats, you might find yourself lost in its dreamlike void—literally.

Dreamcore isn’t surreal. It’s not deep. It’s not haunting or mysterious.
It’s barely even a game — just a stitched-together mess of random, empty levels pretending to have meaning because it slapped "dream" into the title.

From the start, Dreamcore feels like it was cobbled together in a weekend using every cliché from the "liminal spaces" Pinterest board. Empty malls? Check. Foggy streets? Check. Hallways that lead nowhere? Check.
There’s no narrative, no real gameplay, no thought-provoking moments — just an endless series of soulless, low-effort environments recycled to pad out runtime and pretend it’s some kind of "experience."

Exploration is tedious, the interactions are nonexistent, and any hint of mystery is crushed by the overwhelming sense that nothing you do matters at all.
It's the kind of "art game" that thinks standing still in an empty room is storytelling — spoiler alert: it's not. It’s just boring.

And the playerbase?
Good grief.
Dreamcore’s fans are a masterclass in overhyping absolutely nothing.
Every blurry texture and barely functioning elevator gets treated like it's the second coming of existential horror. They're the type who will stand in an empty parking garage in-game for twenty minutes, then write essays about how it "symbolized the decay of modern hope."
It didn't.
It was just a badly lit garage because someone couldn't be bothered to finish the level.

Final Verdict:
Dreamcore is an empty, meaningless walk through reused assets and bad lighting, wrapped up for players who mistake "confusion" for "art."
If wandering through half-baked environments while pretending you’re profound sounds like fun, congratulations — you’ve found your wasteland.

This game is broken; it has a serious lighting problem. The first level I cannot see anything period aside from light shining down from the ceiling in some areas. The second level looked fine, but when it was night - lo and behold, I cannot see half of the time where I am going because the lighting sucks ass.

I love liminal games, but this game is broken and also just really not captivating, and along with the lighting problems, I think I've had enough.