DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures Reviews

[h1]Infinite Storytelling, Infinite Possibilities[/h1] DreamIO is a very powerful storytelling tool of a game, using AI to generate story on the fly as you respond to it. It even has a dice feature for success determination, allowing you to play the game with a D&D style of format. I do pretty long form reviews normally, but let me give my review by explaining the depth of the story I've been experiencing thus far. The game allows you to create scenarios that have a story prompt, where you and the AI can build on top of. Here is the prompt I created for my scenario: "You are an inhabitant of Stardust Junction, a massive spaceport orbiting the Earth's moon. It serves as a hub for many races, human and alien alike. You were born here, and have lived in Stardust Junction all your life. Having just turned twenty five this year, you've earned your right to your Grade E Horizon License, granting you access to basic space travel and piloting. You can choose to begin working outside of the spaceport with your newly attained license, or you can remain in Stardust Junction. What you do next as well as the relationships you create is up to you." Here is a summary of the story thus far, with all of the content (Characters, locations, conflicts) created by the AI itself with most situations completed with a dice roll if applicable: I went to the job board to begin determining what I want to do for my career at Stardust Junction. There were many job listings, but one was titled "Seeker" and asked me to go to the Rusty Sprocket bar on the dark, dangerous lower levels of Stardust Junction. I saved it to my handheld PC for later, and I bumped into a man named Kai as I walked the station. He offered me a data chip with the details of many job openings for a company he works for called NovaTech. I inserted the chip into my handheld computer to download the data, and it popped up with a message reading "Beware of NovaTech - They aren't what they seem". Kai demanded to see what was said on my computer, and tried to attack me to get it. Security stepped in and apprehended him. I ventured into the Rusty Sprocket in the lower guts of Stardust Junction, meeting the contact Jax who facilitated the job ad. He began asking me questions and bought me a drink. I showed a lack of interest in his job, it was a bit sketchy. Before I could leave, he wanted to ask me a big question. He asked why I came to him after the NovaTech employee stopped me, and why I didn't go to the authorities. The entire bar was paying attention to us now, bartender included. I freaked out, I told him that I wanted to put the event behind me for the time being since security did step in. Jax accused me of perhaps already working on behalf of NovaTech. I refuted it and tried to escape, but I was overpowered by the bar patrons. He began interrogating me, to which I told him to take the computer in my pocket so he could see the warning I was given from the data chip. He took the computer and looked through the data on the chip, realizing that the information I was given was secretly data about NovaTech's secret "Project Nightingale", an illegal gene manipulation project on human test subjects. Kai was going to leak the information, but NovaTech was already on him. The data on the chip was all the information of the project, and passing it off to me was the only chance for it to see the light before Kai could be apprehended by NovaTech themselves. NovaTech busted into the Rusty Sprocket before the conversation could continue. There was a quick fight, but the Bartender, Jax and I managed to escape. Now we're all in the abandoned lower cargo levels of the spaceport, attempting to find a working ship that can escape from Stardust Junction undetected. It's storytelling like this that really hooks me. Yes, there is averagely quirky AI stuff that happens for sure. But for the cost of the game, this can be a very fun way to help expand creative thinking, or have a D&D like experience when maybe you don't have the friends or tools to do so yourself.

Incredible, games awesome. Just do whatever you want and it makes a story. Love choice of games growing up, this is that with no limits.

A little interesting but also somewhat hokey. The narrator mostly repeats back to you what you type in with some adjectives thrown in. Only get it on sale. Another observation, you can totally drive the narrative. Not great. I should be living within the story, not making the story - that's the job of the game. For example, the narrator said i was in my room with a broken datapad. So I said "i pick up my working backup datapad and search until i find xyz". xyz was something i was supposed to struggle to find. So the narrator folds and goes along and says "you found xyz" again repeating what i said i did. AI kind of sucks. In general.