Mexican indie studio Interactive Dreams has announced that its short interactive story, A Dream About Parking Lots, arrives on Nintendo Switch... today.
The game, which only takes around 30-40 minutes to complete according to the PR, sees you search for your car, whilst at the same time having a conversation with a therapist about why you have this recurring dream about parking lots.
It may be short, but when indies hone in on something mighty specific in a laser-focused way like this — and especially when the writing is up to scratch — special things can occur. And, given this one is currently sat on a "Positive" user rating over on Steam, where it released back in March, it seems it might pack some big messages into its short running time.
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You can check out the trailer above, and here's some more from the PR blurb:
A Dream About Parking Lots is a short, surreal narrative game where you search for your car in endless parking lots while talking to your therapist about recurring dreams. Blending retro visuals with emotional storytelling, it explores themes of feeling lost, creative block, and the strange logic of dreams 🧠
Look for your car by using your car key!
30-40 minutes long.
Retro-style graphics.
Existential story about feeling lost and creative blocks.
Based on real dreams!
We can't find details on pricing, as it's not yet showing up on the eShop, but it's $3.99 on itch.io and Steam. It's 699 yen on the Japanese eShop, although there's a 20% launch discount right now that brings it down to 559 yen.
Looking forward to having therapy in a car park that may or may not exist?
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"Based on real dreams!" Well, that seems to be about as real as it gets, right?
Sometimes a short and sweet experience can be offered through indies, so colour me interested. Are you guys reviewing this game?
"A Dream about Parking Lots" XD Will personally be my first dream about those
@Pillowpants No plans for this one at the moment. My question is, who is the dreamer?
Kudos for the idea. But I will pass, haha
I'll buy it for 4 dream bucks, this is about as low effort as a "game" can get. Retro graphics are probably just cheaper and voice over some story. This seems like those ai youtube channels that just reads reddit stories over a random background.
Pretty interesting concept - definitely interested in giving this a try myself at some point (and even if I weren't it's cool to see it being also on Switch now)!
Interesting idea. Hopefully, anyone who plays it enjoys it!
Looks like typical eSlop to me. I'm surprised that the likes of this even scored an article.
Though I'm suddenly reminded of the humble Valet Parking 1989 on DSiWare. That was a surprisingly fun and quirky little game with some amusing thinly-veiled nods to 80s stars.
This game has positive reviews on Steam. Doesn't look like eSlop or low effort.
@molkom you must not be American. Most of our country is a parking lot.
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Haha, you're correct!
It's not often that a game announcement could have waited a few minutes until after finishing the game, but I get that there won't be a review.
Based on the studio name, I could see this becoming a series or very specific niche. But hey, category of one, right?
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