Dreamatorium of Dr Magnus

About

Dreamatorium of Dr Magnus is a first-person mystery game where you play Sarah Green, a detective figuring out the disappearance of a grief-stricken doctor. After Dr. Magnus’s family dies in a car accident, he isolates himself, experiments with bizarre potions, and gains the ability to invade others’ dreams. Sarah’s investigation starts in his crumbling home and expands across a quiet town tied to her own forgotten past. As she pieces together clues, she learns Magnus has vanished, and her journey forces her to confront personal secrets buried as deep as his obsession. The game leans into its eerie, low-budget atmosphere, blending psychological horror with a narrative that slowly connects Sarah’s history to the town’s dark undercurrents. Dream sequences and twisted environments contrast with mundane locations like abandoned houses and a decaying castle, creating a disorienting tone. While its 2013 release date shows in the visuals, the story’s focus on trauma and fractured memories gives it a niche appeal. Players describe it as haunting but uneven, with a cult following for its bold, if flawed, vision.

Storyline

The town doctor Macario Magnus has lost his wife and daughter in an accident where their car has fallen from the bridge into the river. He finds her wife’s body in the river, buries her and retreats from the life of a doctor. The daughter’s body was never found. Crushed with pain for his family he becomes obsessed with an idea to get in contact with their souls. This crazy experiment contains the process of consuming a lot of different potions which ruined his health and made him more obsessed with this idea. But on the other side, one of these potions gives him superhuman power to enter other people’s dreams. His disappearance was reported by his neighbour living next to his small house, in which he dwells since the tragedy. Sarah Green, young detective, gets this case. After searching his house, she continues to search other locations in the town. In front of the house she finds her lost brooch. As the investigation continues more and more details are connected with her and her past. Half the way through her investigation she realizes that Magnus has been kidnapped! The search continues on locations which are well known to Sarah from her childhood. The road ends in the castle, the old home of Mr. Magnus… Which secrets will Sarah reveal? Is she going to find missing Dr. Magnus?