Dreamless

About

Dreamless sets you in a Southern town where teens vanish every 25 years during a weeklong ritual. As John, an 18-year-old facing the curse, you explore empty streets and crumbling buildings while townsfolk ignore the danger. Search abandoned homes, decode notes, and uncover why the pattern repeats. Gunplay blends with stealth and puzzles to reveal secrets behind local superstitions. The game focuses on eerie atmosphere and environmental storytelling, making every empty storefront and rotting porch a clue. Setone Games crafts a slow-burn mystery avoiding jump scares for lingering unease. Launching October 25, 2024, on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, and Switch. Early builds suggest the real horror comes from normal life masking something deeply wrong, ideal for players who prefer psychological tension over action-heavy gameplay.

Storyline

Every 25 years, horrifying events occur in a lost town in the south. For one week, August 1-7, referred to as “death week,” teenagers mysteriously disappear. City officials have long ago given up on the mystery and are simply closing missing persons cases, advising residents to stock up on essential supplies and not to leave their homes. But even such measures don't save the day, and more people go missing every year. Is a serial killer, who has passed his craft from generation to generation, to blame for these terrible disappearances, or ... or ... Is it a curse? The protagonist is John, a diligent senior year student with a passion for video blogging. On August 1, 2017, exactly one month before his coming of age, a new “week of death” arrives. The townspeople are busy going about their business and seem to have already forgotten about the curse, but John receives a tempting offer from his friend Will: to explore the long-abandoned house of a deceased old lady who once instilled terror in all the residents.