Charlie Chamber is rich, easily bored, absent-minded and a bit snobish, yet he somehow decided to become a private investigator and try his luck at solving a theft that occurred while he was attending a museum opening: despite not being the best person for the job Charlie can count on his special abilty, a photographic memory he can only access when he sleeps.
While the aforementioned premise is quite nice and original Dream Chamber sadly squanders it with easy gameplay, uninspired minigames, murky plot and short length.

PROS:

-the art style is quite nice and all scenes are quite detailed

-great jazzy soundtrack

-the setting (the USA in the 30s) is pretty interesting and has its charm

-fully voice acted, most actors do a good job

CONS:

-the dream mechanics are truly underused (being required about four times or close to it) and generally boil down to just revisiting an area while dreaming, being able to talk to your subconscious while asleep also has basically no use and there's little dialogue for it

-the dialogue minigame (where choosing the right answer gives you more powerful ammunition to bring down a metaphoric fortress with a few shots) feels out of place and doesn't really work well, other minigames are a dull hunt through empty drawers (where you only click over and over until you find the right one) and an unskippable, atrocious 2d stealth section with awkward controls and only one checkpoint

-there's no text description for things when you mouse over objects in an area, this makes it hard to clearly see what can be picked up/ interacted with and what's just part of the scenery: you'll have to try and click on everything to find out what's what

-the cliffhanger ending leaves most things unresolved as if the devs were sure of making a sequel, as things stand basically nothing is explained and this makes it unsatisfying at best

-the game crashed on me once, so you're advised to save often to avoid losing progress since the game has no autosave

-quite short at less than 3 hours

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Dream Chamber is one fo those games that isn't bad per se, having bought it for 3$ it wasn't a total waste, but it just hasn't enough going for it to make it a good game. Its biggest sin is squandering the great premise of using the dream world and photographic memory to solve cases: it's just not used enough and, when it is, it basically just highlights objects and clues that other games leave to your reasoning. The various minigames are also dull when not downright frustrating and add nothing to its gameplay: most of the time they actually lower your fun factor with their bad design.

In the end I can't recommend it, it's just a very forgettable and somewhat awkward entry in a genre where many games have done things way better.

Positives:

• Good production value and a decent visual style.
  
• Music creates good atmosphere.

Negatives:

• The puzzles are not really fun, and it suffers from tedious obstacles and "can't do x until y is triggered first, even though I as the player foresee the the reason to".
  
• I frequently had trouble finding the hotspot to exit the screen.
  
• The minigames are repetitive and tedious.
  
• The plot is uninteresting. The only good part was the cliffhanger in the last few seconds, but I doubt we'll ever see a sequel.
  
• Your valet as a driver and as a housekeeper is inexplicably treated like 2 different people: surprised when you get home (although he came with you). You also have to go home to talk with him (even though he was with you the whole time). You also give him research chores to do while you're away (again, even though he was busy driving you around). Pretty ridiculous.
  
• The interface has issues due to being a touchscreen port: clicking the menu or diary icons while you have an active inventory item effectively breaks the interface (brings up a dialog with buttons to dismiss but hides the cursor), there's no mouseover text or cursor change on hotspots, so sometimes it's not clear what object you're interacting with from the art, which would increase the challenge in theory, but in practise leads to more pixel hunting and slightly encourages "click everything on everything" rather than encouraging the player to use logical reasoning to solve puzzles.

Overall:
Although artistic talent went into this game, overall it feels like the design was overseen or constrained by a business for profit, and lacks creative passion. The result is it feels more like a formulaic production than a work of art. Maybe I'm being harsh as there's nothing drastically wrong with it, but I just feel like there's so many adventure games out there which are more compelling.

8.4/10 - You’re NOT Dreaming! This game is a winner!

It's a fully voiced Point and Click adventure with an emphasis on the story as opposed to puzzles or finding tons of objects. The story is quite entertaining and the graphics and cut-scenes are really well done! I can't believe more people haven't played this title! Campaign completed in a little under 4 hours; but i'm slow.

You are Charlie, a wealthy, amateur detective who recently cracked his first case. By transitioning to a dream state you are able to question your subconscious and analyze the crime scenes for perfect recall! Needless to say this game has given me much more than I expected! Great Ending!

Worth the $10; but I'd grab on sale! Overall, this is a pretty high quality point and click game which I was pleased to stumble upon. I would buy the sequel!

It's an original and short point&click. But the problem is it's clearly a part of a bigger story but there isn't other episodes, so...

This game was a lot of easier than the other adventure games and the story was very short. However the soundtrack and the plot were very original. Controlling the main character was not always working smooth or at least on my computer, although that I doubt the issue was from my pc. Anyway if the game developers decide to continue and release a second part it would be a pleasure to see how the plot continues. I would leave the gamers decide whether to buy this game or not. If you like old detective stories with old fashioned clothes and nice jazz music, you may find the game very intriguing. Do not expect to spend more than 10 hours at most playing this game - you will end it up a lot earlier without using walkthrough. Enjoy!

Yes, it costs almost nothing on sale, but its still a paid demo version of the game that doesn't exist.
There are a lot of text and objects to interact with. And almost 2 endings (cause they are not very different) but no. There is no point to start something you won't be able to finish

This Point & click game is very good from interrogation to puzzles bit short but cliffhanger ending is good. Only thing missing is hint system.

I love point & click games, but there is no game here. In 30 min play time I clicked maybe 10 times, everything else is just dialogue and animations, none of them interesting enough.

So what to say about this game...

Mainly because of the interesting characters, settings and the - for me - new look and feeling of this adventure. Everything is pretty well drawn* and animated and the voice actors are good, too. Only thing which bothered me, were some broken passages where the voice was shopped of at the end of the sentence.

There are some pretty funny references to the big classics like Monkey Island and Day of The Tentacle** and there is very much to discover. The main character has something to say about nearly every detail and item in the world. This was great! I liked the dry sense of humour and the "rich kid attitude" of the main character, too.

Sadly, this adventure is pretty short (5-10 hours tops) and the ending is very, very open. It has the feeling of a planned sequel or a foretaste of what is to come...So let's hope that this sequel was not canceled or something!

* http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1189834748
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** http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1188399757

I will recomend this if you get it on sale. It is mostly a charming and harmless Noir style point and click. I'm not really a fan of inept heroes that are not specifically funny, just weak on intellect, but it definitely didn't annoy me as much as say... Whispered World. I was plugging along just fine and more or less enjoying it, when towards the end the slealth mini game stood in the way of an otherwise fun experience. Most people play adventure games to get away from the hair pulling, button mashing, anxiety fest of games designed for err...no one. You have a bar on the right side which has to be not too high or too low as you mash or hold the mouse to maintain equalibrium. At the same time your character has to go faster or slower, avoiding dozens of guards with circles representing their visibility while following just close enough to the woman you are following, but not too close. I watched a walkthrough where it took at least ten minutes of repeatedly getting caught to finish. I might just watch the rest of the walkthrough and forget finishing the game.