Waker

Dreaming is more hazardous than most people suspect. Every time you sleep, a path forms behind your dreaming self to guide you back to the waking world.

On occasion, however, that path breaks, leaving the dreamer to stand forever stark naked in front of the sixth form girls while Billy Connolly plays the banjo. Or whatever private delusions are appropriate to your particular mental setup.

Fortunately, a ruptured dream path can be repaired by a Waker - a sort of Druidic cat entity which puts us in mind of the mog from Coraline. As one such Waker, players of Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab's latest puzzle-platformer must collect "wisps" to restore a lost soul to consciousness.

The puzzle element here has chiefly to do with magical nodes, picked up with "D". Once in your paws, each node will magically inscribe a platform across an illuminated area. You can raise or lower this platform while it's being inscribed by running left or right.

Doing so is necessary to reach remote parts of the level, but trotting backwards and forwards to paint in a route isn't always convenient. You might accidentally scamper off a cliff, or head-first into a deadly floating charm.

Rabbit Wants Cake is a bit more surreal and a lot more confection-oriented. The Pretender is always worth revisiting, too.

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