🌒🧠 Sleep Awake – When the Mind Won’t Rest, Reality Fractures

A psychological descent into dreams you can’t escape—and truths you can’t forget.
Some games play with your reflexes. Others play with your mind. Sleep Awake dares to do both. This moody, atmospheric thriller blurs the boundary between lucid dreams, fragmented memory, and emotional trauma, letting players unravel a mystery that’s as personal as it is paranormal.

It’s a game where sleep isn’t a refuge—it’s a labyrinth.

What Is Sleep Awake?
Sleep Awake is a first-person narrative horror-adventure where the player navigates distorted dream spaces while uncovering the truth behind their waking-world amnesia. You play as a protagonist with no name, waking up in their childhood home—except something’s off. The clocks don’t tick. The mirrors don’t reflect. And every door leads deeper into yourself.

Think: Alan Wake meets What Remains of Edith Finch, with the slow-burn fear of Layers of Fear.

Key Gameplay Elements

Dream Logic Mechanics
Solve puzzles and progress by thinking like a dreamer—things move, shift, or vanish depending on your decisions and emotional state.

Unreliable Environments
Rooms change when you look away. Notes rewrite themselves. The world bends to your perception—and your fear.

Memory Fragments & Clues
Find hidden objects and story pieces scattered through surreal versions of your past—like a journal that bleeds ink or photos that rearrange themselves.

Sound-Driven Exploration
Follow audio cues—footsteps, humming, distant heartbeats—to unlock areas or avoid nightmare sequences.

No Jumpscares—Just Dread
The tension builds gradually, with psychological horror over gore. The fear comes from what you think might happen, not what actually does.

Who Will Love Sleep Awake?

• Fans of slow-burn horror (Oxenfree, Amnesia: Rebirth)
  Players who enjoy surreal, story-rich environments
  Gamers who love deciphering fragmented lore
  Anyone fascinated by dreams, dissociation, and mind-over-reality themes

Tips Before You Enter the Dream

• Always look back—sometimes the past opens the path
  Take screenshots—some environmental puzzles rely on visual memory
  Watch the mirrors. Seriously.
  Play in the dark, with headphones—it’s not required, but it feels required

When Art Becomes Anxiety
At artsyavatars.com, we embrace games that don’t just play—they haunt. Sleep Awake is one of those rare indie gems that turns player curiosity into suspense, asking you to question everything you see—and everything you remember.

Not all nightmares want to wake you. Some want to keep you.