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Daydreamer
Developer(s)	Roland Studios
Publisher(s)	Atlus (PS4)
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4
Release	WW: August 21, 2015 Awakened Edition PlayStation 4 WW: July 12, 2016
Genre(s)	Side-scrolling video game
Mode(s)	Single-player

Daydreamer is a video game developed by Roland Studios.

In a distant future where the world has been taken over by aliens and undergoing a civil war, a young girl called Olivia must rescue her brother from the aliens.^[1]

Weapons at the players disposal include laser guns and flamethrowers. The player also has pets to assist them in tasks. The player encounters large bosses.^[2] The game is a side scroller.^[3]

Daydreamer was showcased at the Moscone Center’s GDC Play Area at the 2015 Game Developer Conference.^[2] It had an unsuccessful crowdfunding campaign.^{[4][2][5][1][6]}

Daydreamer has Sprite graphics, of rather high quality for its characters, contrasted by a lot of scrolling check patterns for its pause menu. It also features an interface designed for a gamepad, to the point where the game only displays Gamepad inputs for menues and tutorial messages even when played only a keyboard on Windows.

Daydreamer received a score of 68/100 on Metacritic for the PlayStation 4 version of the game, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[7]

Hardcore Gamer gave the PlayStation 4 version of the game a 3.5/5, praising the art style and how it pays homage to platform games from the 1990s.