Deep Sleep Trilogy

About Deep Sleep Trilogy

Deep Sleep Trilogy is a collection of three short point-and-click horror games by scriptwelder, a Polish indie developer known for Don't Escape. They were first browser games; the first won Jay Is Games' 2012 Casual Gameplay Design Competition. Armor Games Studios brought them to Steam in October 2019, preserved without new content after the end of Flash.

In Deep Sleep, an attempt at lucid dreaming goes wrong and you find yourself trapped in a dream that quickly turns menacing. In Deeper Sleep you learn that this may be more than a nightmare and that knowing it makes you a target. In The Deepest Sleep safety seems close, but something is on your heels, and you may not be able to trust what you see.

Each game is a classic adventure: you click through rooms drawn in grainy, shadowy pixel art, pick up a screwdriver, a flashlight, batteries and stranger things, and use them to get further. Shadow figures haunt the dream and try to take you, and the later puzzles come with time pressure and the threat of death.

Players praise the creeping dread and the puzzles despite the crude look. It suits anyone who likes short, puzzle-led horror adventures to play with the lights off and headphones on.

How to play Deep Sleep Trilogy

1. Start with Deep Sleep and play the three games in order.
2. Click to move between rooms and to examine and pick up objects.
3. Use and combine items from your inventory to solve puzzles and open the way on.
4. Watch for the shadow figures and act quickly when a puzzle is timed.
5. Find the way out of each dream, and go deeper.

Tips

• Examine everything; items are small and easy to miss.
• Read notes closely; they explain the dream world and hold clues.
• Play with headphones and the lights off, as the store page suggests.
• In the third game, plan before you act; some puzzles are timed.

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