When you were young, at that tender, malleable age, you touched the Dream…
Brave the Dreamer is a collaborative storytelling game about estrangement and belonging by Amy Huang for 1-4 players.
You play as youths who were transported to an alternate world, returned here involuntarily, and found each other on a niche Internet forum about the experience.
The game is played without a game master or facilitator—instead, you take turns drawing cards and answering questions about your characters’ experiences.
Explore your tangled relationship to the Dream and the Forum. Watch your feelings shift as you grow older and put the Dream behind you. Discern the shape of the new life you’re carving out of the Present through tender self-acceptance. Then watch it all come to a head as your resolve is pushed to its limits.
Was the Dream the truest thing that ever happened to you? Or is real life what you’ve committed to building here and now?
What brave choices will you make to find out?
Brave the Dreamer is available now through itch.io! Purchase includes:
18-page black-and-white PDF with guidance for playing with a standard deck of cards, with the print-and-play deck, or online
Optional materials for print-and-play
Access to Story Synth version of the game for online play
Import file for playingcards.io (alternate online play option)