DreamTank Reviews

It's simple and gives you plenty to look at. I'm a fan of games like this and hope to see them add more to this in the near future. I feel like it could benefit from more plant life such as trees and flowers to add variety to it. If you are looking for something trippy or calming I recommend this game. Works well coupled with nice music.

This isn't exactly a game. You stand in place and look around a bleak environment, usually too dark to see much, with a few floating shapes. Then it pretends you close your eyes, and you open them in another bleak, dark, empty environment. There is rarely any color. There is rarely anything to do. When there IS anything to do, all you can do is knock around the random floating geometric shapes that every world has, and only when they are floating nearby. There is so little variation that you start seeing repeated world types about five worlds in. There is no gameplay and nothing to do. It's neat, don't get me wrong, but it's just far too flat to bother with. If there was more variation, or something other than just "nothing is there but some shapes", then maybe it'd be worth picking up. But there's not, and it isn't.

I wish there was a middle-ground option instead of just yes/no! I really enjoyed Dreamtank and I am sure I will go back in a few more times at least. Interaction is minimal but what is there is really well done. Your controllers can hit objects and impart a realistic amount of both movement and rotational force to objects in a zero-g environment. You can smack things off into space or try and stop them moving all together with taps. Entering the tank is a short experience where every 10 seconds the world fades out to a new one. You can press a button to stay at any world, which I found myself doing only a few times. Being randomly generated some worlds are less interesting or just don't warrrent hanging around but those that do are incredible. The formula for a world is basically a combination of things like Like or Dark High (Oceans) or Low Water (Lakes or none) level Colorful or Not Flat or Mountains or Craters/Canyons Space or Sky That world is then filled with ~10 random object types cloned over and over accross the landscape Each object type can be a primitive, abstract, mechanical, natural in shape and be static or animated Some types are GIGANTIC in one world and tiny in the next. Some are hovering or floating or spinning around while others are attached to the ground or static in position. In the background is relaxing music that is purposefuly non specific however it was still a bit unfortunate that the world does not react to or sync with the sound (other than when it rains) but its only minor This is not going to be for everyone and I feel it is a little lacking in options right now, hopefully the developer will add more to it in future Pros: Very pretty graphics that ran really well on my machine (gtx1060) Lots of World Types and Tonnes of Object Types Great Touch Control interaction Relaxing Music Cons: No options other than choose track and play Objects don't come close to the player nearly enough making most world non interactive Worlds are too static with little actually happening (faster moving stuff in the distance would really help) Water doesn't react to objects and objects don't react to water which is a bit immersion breaking (not even ripples) No Music/World Sync