Dream Machine Series

In this six-part adventure made entirely of clay and cardboard, players control Victor and Alicia, a couple who’ve just moved into a new apartment. While trying to get settled in, they soon discover that all is not as it seems in their quiet, unassuming apartment building…

Over the course of its six-plus-year development cycle, the episodic point-and-click adventure has truly become a work of passion for its two main indie designers, Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring. Adopters of the early chapters have been forced to bide their time waiting for each new episode, some with more than a year between releases. […]

It’s been many years since the last true claymation adventure, but at long last The Dream Machine looks set to create a name for itself on the very short list of hand-crafted stop-motion titles. This five-part episodic series includes the debut chapter for free with four commercial instalments to follow, the first of which has […]

In this six-part adventure made entirely of clay and cardboard, players control Victor and Alicia, a couple who’ve just moved into a new apartment. While trying to get settled in, they soon discover that all is not as it seems in their quiet, unassuming apartment building…

It’s been a while since the double-episode browser-based debut of The Dream Machine, but the indie cardboard-and-claymation series continues to demonstrate remarkable quality in Chapter 3, which maintains the charming aesthetic style, surreal storyline and engaging characters of its predecessors. Paradoxically, however, this middle episode in the planned five-part series both requires intimate knowledge of […]

Note: This review contains some general series spoilers for those who haven't yet completed the first three chapters. It has been a long time coming, but Chapter 4 of has finally arrived – almost two entire years after the previous instalment. Was it worth the wait? Yes and no. Whilst this latest episode is a pleasing return to the surreal claymation dream […]

It has been a long wait for the fifth episode of – a little over a year, in fact – but it’s clear the indie Swedish folks at The Sleeping Machine (formerly Cockroach, Inc.) have kept themselves busy as Chapter 5 proves to be the most substantial and extravagant instalment to date. This penultimate chapter […]