The Dreamland：Free

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The Dreamland：Free is a single player and multiplayer open world role playing shooter game. It was developed by LSLSGames and was released on January 10, 2023. It received neutral reviews from players.

[Introduction to the game] ------- You will play a hero who saves the village! Your task is to save all the creatures in this land! Bring them together and peace Lead them to rebuild their new homes! ------ Relevant play methods On the way to save them, you will encounter countless difficulties and dangers. You must keep learning and growing to strengthen yourself Fight: Learn powerful spells…

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48%

Audience ScoreBased on 27 reviews

monetization11 negative mentions

The game has potential with enjoyable crafting and building mechanics once basic functions are learned.
Colorful, cartoony graphics and character creation options provide some visual appeal.
It is free to play and runs on lower-end laptops, making it accessible without financial risk.

Gameplay is unpolished and buggy with poor controls, clunky animations, and no clear tutorials, making it confusing and frustrating for new players.
Combat is difficult and unbalanced, with fast enemy respawns, harsh death penalties causing loss of items, and weak NPC companions.
The game feels unfinished and resembles an early alpha or tech demo stage with limited content, repetitive objectives, and poorly implemented features.

monetization
11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The monetization approach is heavily criticized for essentially presenting an advertisement disguised as a game, misleading players into paying $6 for content better suited to free promotional platforms. This practice is seen as exploitative, detracting from genuine games and harming both consumers and developers by misusing visibility and marketplace space. Overall, it is strongly discouraged and deemed not worth players' time or money.
- “While it might seem like an innocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful.”
- “Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers.”
- “This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game.”
story
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25%
75%
The story and quests initially provide an engaging introduction with helpful starter missions, but recent updates have removed key elements like flying and altered quests in unhelpful ways, including missing locations and auto-save issues that disrupt the intended experience.
- “I was quite enjoying flying around, doing the starter quests which helped learn the basics.”
- “I clicked start new, found no difference so went to load in the original character to find the auto save had saved over it even though I chose new game. I tried exiting completely to find an update, in which the flying was taken away and the starter quests are totally different and not helpful at all, with a cave quest that is missing the cave, which you can just walk around the entrance barrier.”
- “I clicked start new, found no difference so went to load in the original character to find the auto save had saved over it even though I chose new game. I tried exiting completely to find an update, in which the flying was taken away and the starter quests are totally different and not helpful at all, with a cave quest that is missing the cave, which you can just walk around the entrance barrier.”
- “No... I just kill them after done with quest and got stuff like experience book or something.”
gameplay
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The gameplay has potential but is hindered by some basic mechanics that require improvement.
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game features a noticeable amount of grinding, which some players may find enjoyable for short sessions but potentially repetitive over longer playtimes.
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Stability is currently affected by some bugs, likely due to the game's new and free status, but these issues are expected to improve over time.