Don't wake up

About the Game

Don’t Wake Up is a psychological horror game where you play as Eli, a young boy trapped inside dreams that refuse to let him go.

Each night pulls you deeper into unstable dreamscapes where familiar places twist into cages, corridors fold into impossible spaces, and unseen presences stalk the silence. To escape, you must navigate these nightmares, solve their warped logic, and uncover the meaning behind the dolls scattered throughout the dreams — fragments of memories Eli is not ready to face.

Above all else, you must remain quiet.

With real-time microphone detection, the dream is always listening. Every scream, gasp, or involuntary sound risks collapsing the world and forcing you to begin again. Survival is not about fighting back — it is about control, patience, and learning when to stay completely still.

Each dream introduces new rules, threats, and fears. No two nightmares feel the same, and what protects you in one may betray you in another.

Key Features

• Microphone-Based Survival
  The game listens through your microphone in real time. Scream, gasp, or make too much noise and the dream resets. Silence is your most important resource.

• Evolving Dreamscapes
  Explore multiple surreal nightmares, each with its own environment, logic, and tone. Forests become prisons, playgrounds turn into traps, and reality bends without warning.

• Distinct Enemies in Every Dream
  Each nightmare introduces new terrifying entities with unique behaviors and rules. Learning how they hunt is the only way to avoid them.

• Environmental Puzzle Solving
  Solve puzzles woven into the dream world itself — unlocking paths, disabling threats, and revealing hidden truths through observation and experimentation.

• Tools for Survival
  Use limited tools to defend yourself and manipulate the environment:

  • Slingshots to interact with distant objects

  • Candles to reveal hidden spaces or ward off certain threats

  • Flashlights to guide your way — but risk being seen

  • And more tools discovered across different dreams

• A Story Told Through Fragments
  Uncover pieces of Eli’s broken family memories as each dream reveals unsettling truths buried deep in his subconscious.

• High Tension, No Hand-Holding
  Failure is expected. Learning from resets is part of the experience. The dream remembers what you don’t.

Every dream pulls you further from waking.
Every sound brings the nightmare closer.

Stay quiet. Learn the rules.
And whatever you do — don’t wake up.