DreamHack Beyond

About

DreamHack Beyond mixes RPG progression with a digital event space. Build your character tackle main quests and gather XP while hunting for in-game items like Cheer Gear. The story follows mysterious entities called Sleepers whose dreamscapes form the game’s worlds. Each area has its own style and challenges. You can stick to the narrative or wander freely skipping straight to activities like demos or tournaments. A companion is needed to access the dream realms guiding you through a tutorial before letting you explore solo or with others. The game shines with its flexible approach, collaborate with players to piece together lore from dream fragments or ignore the story entirely. Cheer Gear lets everyone contribute to shared objectives like restoring dream worlds. The Void a central hub connects all areas acting as both a starting point and a social space. With no set path the experience changes based on player actions and seasonal updates that tweak goals and content. The mix of structured quests and freeform exploration makes it feel like an ever-changing playground.

Storyline

The worlds of DreamHack Online are fantastical worlds where everything is possible. They are colorful spaces of unexpected interactions, curious exploration, and limitless creativity - a strange place to wonder and wander. Nevertheless, they are still connected through the overall world building: All worlds of DreamHack exist inside the dreams of mighty old creatures, called the Sleepers. Each Sleeper can represent a topic, exhibition area, or season of DreamHack. Each dream world has a distinct visual theme and all items and interactions correspond with it. The dreams of the Sleepers form an interconnected network that can be freely explored, expanded, and changed over time. The Sleepers exist in a space-like dimension (the Void, the Source, the Singularity). This area functions as the games hub area and starting point. To enter the dreams of the Sleepers, they have to pass the DreamKeeper, a creature that only lets you pass, if you have a companion. Therefore players have to find their first companion in this hub area to enter (similar to a ticket). This functions as the in-game tutorial. Once the player has entered one of the dreams they are free to explore. Players can either be invested in the story and find out more by collecting & connecting dream fragments of the Sleeper's dreams (teamwork of the community to understand all of the world's lore should be heavily encouraged). Or one can simply ignore it and discover DreamHack Online free-flowing and at their own pace. All players work together to reach a common goal by cheering with their Cheer Gear. This goal needs to be defined, it could be to wake up the Sleepers, to fix or shape the dream world, or to ward off a dream-invading corruption - or something entirely different. This objective could also change in different seasons of the application to create differently stories over time.