Liminal spaces are transitional areas (hallways, backrooms, stairwells, etc.)

Theres no living beings to be found, and an insidious feeling that something is off.

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Developed by studio Montraluz,Dreamcoreis a horror game based on this viral premise.

Before loading into the level, a short message saying, Explore the environment only by curiosity.

Patience and observation are key, is your only clue.

Collage of character holding a gun, a giant creature from Reanimal, and the Xenomorph from Alien: Isolation.

Dreamcore will receive three more scenarios over the course of this and the next year.

One seems to be a school or a kindergarten… Im not looking forward to that one.

Theres a plant in my left corner, while the only path available to me awaits on the right.

characters making drugs in schedule 1.

Some pleasant music is playing somewhere, though I cant find the source.

As I use the first stairway to go down, the first pool is in front of me.

Its not too deep, probably not even reaching my knees.

A collage showing photos of moments in two different levels from Dreamcore.

I walk at a slightly slower pace since I cant sprint while here.

Probably not the best spot to run away from something if Im truly not alone in this strange place.

I dare to take a few steps inside before being engulfed in absolute darkness.

The starting area of Dreampools, a level in Dreamcore showing mostly white walls.

One door leads to what seems to be a dead-end, with handrails I cant jump over.

Sadly, I cant do anything with them, so I return to where I came from yet again.

Is the game adapting to my decisions?

A snail stair that starts on a pool of water, next to an obscure path in a shape of a semi circle.

Is this really somewhere I can escape?

Why do I feel like Im being watched?

Some specific rooms catch my attention.

A group of five big yellow smiling faces looking at each other on a lower floor.

Theres a huge one with holes in an inaccessible wall akin to subterranean tombs.

More slides of different colors appear when I least expect them where are they coming from?

The giant smiling faces start to appear everywhere.

A small nigth table with a radio on it, next to a wall that has a drawing of an open door and a warning sign.

Sometimes they look at me directly.

Its pointing to a drawn door on the wall that has a warning sign.

Maybe its the same door from the beginning?

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I let it be and continue onward.

Im starting to feel like Im not there, neither in the game nor in my living room.

At one point, I find what feels like an endless staircase.

I start to descend and it takes minutes to reach the other side.

This is clearly a new zone, since the previously bright rooms are now submerged in darkness.

My flashlight doesnt help much either.

I start hearing a new sound, unable to locate a source.

It feels like someone is touching a button every few seconds.

My head is telling me to stop playing but I keep going.

Im sure that someone or something will pop out and give me the jump scare of my life.

The sound of someone pressing a button is getting closer.

Finally, I see a lift what the hell is that doing here?

and I escape my aquatic nightmare.

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