re:Dreamer
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Zach, a broke college freshman who's been coasting through life without a purpose, just found a curious phone game called re:Dreamer. This incredible phone app has world-bending powers, and he accidentally turned himself into a sexy and voluptuous young woman before he even finished the tutorial. Even worse, he'll never be able to change back unless he wins this reality-editing competitive sex game and he has to keep its existence a secret from everyone except the single friend he's allowed to invite for help playing it!
With a lack of sexual experience and an impish and unreliable in-game A.I. who insists on calling him "Zoey" as his only lead on how to compete in this perverted game, will Zach be able to hold onto the things that made him a man, keep his transformation a secret for the six months of the game season, and win a world-changing wish to change himself back, or will he remain stuck as a woman?
re:Dreamer has been in active development for over 4 years and features original artwork and over 25 hours of highly-replayable content due to its unique C.H.E.A.T.S. system which alters Zach/Zoey's personality matrix and how they tell and interact with the story.
This is the public version of the game. Patrons can get early access to releases and other goodies by pledging to this game's Patreon.
Backer Version (1 month ahead of public).
Sustainer Version (the newest release and 2 months ahead of public).
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Install instructions
PC/Linux/Mac:
1. Extract and run.
Android:
1. Extract and install the APK.
Development log
- The Dev Is Sick27 days ago
- 0.19.0 Changelog43 days ago
- Some Goddamn AccountabilityJun 02, 2024
- 0.18.1 ChangelogMay 21, 2024
- 0.18.0 ChangelogMay 08, 2024
- 0.17.0 Fourth Anniversary ChangelogOct 22, 2023
- 0.16.1 ChangelogSep 01, 2023
- 0.16.0 ChangelogAug 04, 2023
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fire game played it for like 15 hours straight and didn’t get bored once. It has amazing artwork cudos to the artist and the way it was set up it in general is absolutely amazing. I love the idea of gender swap and how it played out in this story.
I have to say, all of Day 1 ( I did Keisuke and mom) are probably one of the best, if not the best, experiences playing a visual novel I ever had. After that it's quite unfinished, sadly.
Honestly, if I could I'd give you infinite amounts of money just to make me feel as immersed as I felt during those first hours. This game is great, I hope to one day see it complete.
As a transfem that presents as female online, but most likely won't ever get to experience being a girl, this game gives me euphoria and I appreciate it a lot lol. Thank you.
My guy I don't know if ya know but it's not in .apk format so android phones can't unpack it, please fix?
I have to package the APK in a ZIP due to legal reasons of clearly-labeled credits for assets, to say nothing of it including the flowchart and changelog. I have an Android, and you can absolutely use the Files app to extract ZIP files.
oh okay, I'll give it a shot thanks. My apologies too, I like your game so far ❤️
Turns out I've also got mono! https://www.patreon.com/posts/115177404
I'm a bit nervous going into this update. This game tends to give me euphoria when playing but then dysphoria when I stop. I heard this update expands the mom route and honestly, I am exited to play it.
Hi, fellow Crystal 'u'
Hi, i play on android and with every update i must start from the beginning. When i try to load my old save there is a crash report.
Don't use old saves then. Use the jump menu to quickly jump to where you were and rebuild your saves based on your current C.H.E.A.T.S. values and a quick selection of the choices you made. New/Edited content is always unlocked, but a Patreon password (like the one listed in the changelog) lets you jump throughout the whole game.
Hello, I like this game very much, so I want to translate this game into Chinese, so that more Chinese players can play this game. But I couldn't generate the translated tl folder on renpy. (after unpacking rpa and rpyc), I don't know what encryption the game did because I'm not too familiar with renpy either.
So can you send me an unencrypted version of the game (public version is fine), or send me an rpyc file with text, or can the author use machine translation to help translate it? (I know you are not well, so I dare not bother you)
I don't know of any software that can send you messages privately, so I'll have to post them in the itch comments section.
Finally, I wish you good health. (The above text is translated by machine. Please forgive me for any inaccuracies.)
I'm flattered, but I think that the nature of how I do text substitution makes this game untranslatable.
This is a particularly extreme example, but the script has several dozen examples like this.
If you truly want to try your hand at this gargantuan task, my Discord username is CaptainCaption. Send me a friend request and we can talk things over.
I'm updating the public version. I've been sick for almost all of October (one, two, and three) but I should've done this when it became clear I wasn't going to get the update out this month.
Are you ok ? Its been a nice experience playing
Been sick for all of October with a bacterial infection that's come and gone. I'm on a second course of stronger antibiotic so we'll see if this one gets rid of it.
rest a bit
i wish you the best of luck then
ive been sick too for a long while no matter the remedies the sickness i have feels like a overly attached girlfriend because it is never gone im even possibly thinking of myself dying at some point(hope im wrong i still want to do many things before this)
I just got past the psychology lecture and i already love this game! The attention to detail is great and the author notes are truly amazing. Also, i never expected to learn something from these games.
whenever i run a purple/blue rectangle apperse for about 3 seconds and then nothing happens did i do something wrong?
Sometimes the game fails to launch. Download the Ren'Py SDK and launch it through that, as that usually fixes the issue.
Any luck?
Next update?
likely very early october. health has just been very bad recently
that's cool. Sorry to hear about that, hope you get well soon. Being sick sucks.
That's... not the type of health issue I have, but thank you
You have only been speaking to CaptainCaption, the person you are thinking of who almost single-handedly makes this visual novel. I like reading comments from my fans, but you acted like you were my friend because you knew of my life while I know nothing of you. Not only is that one-sided relationship the definition of a parasocial relationship, you threw a tantrum because I told you that your parasocial friendliness was making me uncomfortable. I am not beholden to being treated like that just because you said you liked my work and you cared, and if standing up for myself against that was all it took for you to go from a "fan" to someone telling me to go screw myself and saying I am using a neurodegenerative disease that I wouldn't wish on anyone as an excuse for laziness, you didn't actually care. Don't blame me for your own failings as a person.
So, I have been playing for quite a few hours now with the author's notes on, and I have to ask, what are you on? I saw the one about how you renamed the USS enterprise in Keisuke's route for a tiny star trek reference. afterward I wondered about your sanity. but seriously, those notes add so much to my experience, thank you so much for spending an obscene amount of time and probably money on this.
In conclusion, skirt go swoosh swoosh, Z is dumb and Cap is delusional.
Adderall XR 20 mg, 6 mg/day estradiol, 50 mg bicalutamide, 50 mcg vitamin D3, lots of Aleve and Midol. The antidepressant varies, but currently 600 mg Wellbutrin, but 20 mg escitalopram is in the cards. The corticobasal syndrome medication has changed a lot, but it's currently 75 mg/day carbidopa levodopa and 0.5 mg benztropine (the HRT also counts as a CBS med due to a very odd interaction that's puzzled multiple doctors. Oh, lots of coffee too.
I think it's probably better to give credit to my mental issues than the medications, as I have severe OCD, pretty strong ADHD, OSSD Type 3 (somehow not related to the genderfluid stuff!) mild schizoaffective depressive type, varying depression, likely PTSD, and possibly BDP (borderline). With how much it has disrupted my life and distressed me, I think it's fair to toss my genderfluidity into this category of mental issues.
Wow. I'm impressed you still have a liver. But that's pretty shitty, I hope you get to set at least a couple of politicians on fire soon to lighten your heart a bit.
This is getting rather parasocial and uncomfortable.
lmao, here's source code you idiot.
ngl this game actually made me feel better about myself, idk If I'll ever be able to figure myself out, but thanks anyways. It made me kinda emotional, a goddamn porn game that caught my attention because of the damn gender bender aaaah fml why am I even writing this
Also, I haven't read all of your updates but I still have to say that I relate to so many things you said, idrk what else to say but I hope you are doing better and stay strong.
Damn i knew this game for a very long time but still not have enough courage to try it, i don't want to lose my gender
You can't exactly fabricate a gender out of thin air. All that'd happen is you figuring out more about yourself
If I am doing another game after this, the idea for it is already laid out.
Bro, when I heard WorldendDominator from Umineko, I nearly choked on my water.
Yes, I know that renpy doesn't support XP anymore, but I want to know, and also where is the 32 bits executable.
(I have XP because I have an alternative laptop because yes and I wanted to play on it)
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html#upgraded-libraries-and-platform-su...
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html#depreciations-and-removals
Unfortunately no longer supported by the engine. Ren'Py is very low-spec but its RAM requirements would likely make a slightly higher-spec game on it like re:Dreamer chug.
Ok, thanks, I will enjoy it anyway in my main w11 laptop 😀
What's the name of the music with roaring feline in it, I literally cannot find it in the music credit ???
Ratatat - "Wildcat"
Thanks a bunch, you made my day
Can we expect any more content for the "single route"? I'm not sure what else to call it. I just know that I haven't heard much at all regarding that in comparison to the other routes.
Yes, but it's on the lowest-priority list given much more demand for the other routes.
great game cant wait till next update if I had Money I'd join the patron but alas I don't so I'll just lurk in the discord
It's a really good story (yes, it's not a game it's a story) boring sometimes, but really good.
I secretly believe Zach was taking Estrogen for a year before the game starts and all the effects hit him at once, and the app thing was rather just a coincidence.
Anyone know how to have sex with Keisuke when you first meet him? I've been trying to get him to do it adjusting the cheats menu every time but to no avail.
The author is kind of rewriting things from my understanding and that scene hasn't been put into the game yet. There was an earlier scene from early versions that was overwritten with a newer update. So to sum it up, there isn't a way to do it yet.
ah, ok. I see.
Lie to him twice.
Ended up picking the trans story path out of curiosity on my first playthrough and not only I was hooked on the wholesome writing but sad to see that part isn't finished yet & I want to know what happens next 😭
This is the update I am working on right now. You can see some sneak peeks in public Patreon posts.
Finally
Not only is the writing peak, I also relate a little too much to mc's tastes and it makes me question a few too many things about myself. 10/10
Looks promising. The conversation with the AI about gender bending is an emotional gut punch that breaks the 4th wall in an incredibly effective way. I hope the dev continues their work with the same insightfulness.
you clap for peak fiction
you clap for peck fiction
you cry for peck fiction
you kneel before peak fiction
FUCKING immaculate, good job Cap. Make sure you stay hydrated and get some sleep.
Heyo, not gonna talk about the game in this, but... I just read the latest update from you. I've been an itch.io user for a fairly short time, only since like October of 2023, so by the time I got on here, this was nearly where it was last update. But through my crippling porn addiction, I found this game. and I love it, with all my heart. I was, until today, unaware of any of the health or other issues faced by you. I think it's amazing what you've crafted here despite those problems.
While I won't claim to have nearly as many problems as you, this game helped me stay focused during college, I entered college in august 2023, realistically knowing that it was outside of my budget, and my families budget, but I desperately wanted to get out of the house(mostly a pussy escape, it was a mess, and I was spiraling at the time.) I was (and am) undiagnosed in(but believe I have) depression, adhd, and possibly autism, (the best Trifecta!). But money had fucked me, I didn't make enough to cover the cost of tuition and dorms, I could cover one or the other with the support given by the college, but it left me with around 6K in costs. At the end of this last semester I left, and I am struggling to find a job, but throughout it all, I played this game. I suck as a commenter btw, I can't get my thoughts focused right now, but I want to say, that I am thankful that you made this, it has helped me grow more accustomed to Ideas that I otherwise would have vehemently denied, and just want to let you know, that even if this ends up being abandoned or unfinished, I enjoyed it, and it wasn't a waste of time, for you, or for any of the people who played it. Thank you.
Live Long and Prosper.
I just want to say that this game was a huge steppingstone for me actually realizing I'm trans. Thank you to the devs for this amazing game!
I have to correct Molly's name, as names that start with O' are irish. Unless you intend to her to have irish paternal roots
She's got a complicated family history. Play the Britney theater stuff with Awkwardness 5 to see why.
Ai: Did you want to be a girl outside of a video game?
...busted!
The drunk is hilarious! Although it was very hard to understand.
Any kinds of games like this?
Student Transfer, Press-Switch, and Mice Tea, but the first two are almost exclusively body swap with sprawling content and the last is very furry. In regards to another really good gender bender game, Magical Camp is an easy recommendation (even if it's discontinued) but there's not really another VN like re:Dreamer.
Thats a tragedy, but it could mean your next opportunity to make another masterpiece. Really though you have a great thing here, thank you.
Probably the most entertaining writing I've seen in a VN ever. Looking forward to future updates! I know you've had your issues with mental health so I hope you continue to do well in addition!
Jesus fucking Christ shes autistic, realising she isn't cisgender AND she's a humungous asshole
ive never related more to a protagonist
oh my fucking god 15 minutes in and i already have what i assume to be a reference to Azur lane 10/10 just for that
I am mad to this day I didn't call it Azur Plane
oh god that would have worked so fucking well
Time to play the new update. Let's see if I get envious
Man Zoey/Zach is one lucky mother fucker!
I don't make comments on many of these pages, but if you are thinking of playing this and haven't yet, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR? This is, in 15 years, one of the best VNs I have ever played, with some of the most charming dialogue to exist within the genre. Zach/Zoey is one of the most relatable protagonists I have come across in a good long while, and the rest of the cast is full of all stars too. Keisuke is such a well written character that I would wind up finding myself frustrated with him one moment, and positively enamoured the next. Honestly, maybe the best game that I have played on the whole of Itch, and almost definitely the best adult game on here, by far...
AND THE LAST VERSION I PLAYED WAS 0.13.2, SO WITH ALL THE NEW UPDATES, YOU KNOW I AM RECOMMENDING THIS WITH MY WHOLE (not altered by a crazy pink phone fairy) CHEST!
10/10.