Dream Cycle review – chaotic procgen spellcraft from one of Tomb Raider’s original creators

Dream Cycle is the first game I’ve played that puts a fresh spin on Blink, Dishonored’s widely imitated short-range teleport spell. Admittedly, it’s less about the ability in itself, than how it works with and against the game’s sporadically coherent terrain. In Dishonored, Blink is sort of headshots but for movement, snapping you between points with toe-curling specificity. It takes the stodge out of vertical exploration and edits plodding stealth into a series of catlike pounces. It plays that role in Dream Cycle, too, especially when combined with levitation and silenced SMGs. But it’s also, here, a means of spelunking through a world that doesn’t quite want to be explored.

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