Every Day the Same Dream: a bleak, unsettling Time Waster

If you feel like you're too happy or you're having too good a day, bring yourself right back down to Earth by playing Every Day the Same Dream. It's a stark little story where you play a faceless corporate automaton. You get up, put clothes on (if you want), talk to your wife and head for your depressing cubicle job with your identical coworkers. The dream can end one of 5 different ways, and once you find all of them, you "become a new person" and see the real ending.

The visuals and music are both simple and appealing. Controls are also extremely spare: left or right to walk, and spacebar to interact with people and things. Your options are limited, but that's sort of the point of the game. I'm not going to spoil it for you, because that would away from the power of the conclusion. I wouldn't call Every Day the Same Dream "fun," but I would call it a good game. I might even call it art. I was actually a bit disturbed when it was all over.

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