The Dreamhold Reviews
Published by Zarfhome Software Consulting on 2018-12-21🏷️ About: *The Dreamhold* is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Overall Customer Experience 😎
😎👌🔥 Positive experience
61.3%
👿🤬😠 Negative experience
23.6%
🙄💅🫥 Neutral
15.1%
Read 16 Customer Service Reviews 👿🤬😡😠💢😤
4.8 out of 5
Noooooo!
2024-10-14
by Lavajci
It did it to me too... The same Fizmo error. 4S on 5.1.1.
What a great idea!
2024-01-27
by Greg Langmead
However I can't play because right away at the bottom I see a message that says "Fizmo fatal error. Caught signal 11, aborting interpreter." And when I tap to enter text a dialog comes up that tells me TheDreamhold has encountered a serious error and must quit. I have iOS 5.1.1 on an iPhone 4S.
Anyway I love the idea of packaging each game as an app and I look forward to playing this one and many more!
::Pouts::
2024-01-27
by Sexy Mad Hatter
I was really looking forward to playing this game but I too got the text of death. It's so sad!
Amazing
2024-03-18
by DianaYo
This game was exactly what I was looking for, and I really appreciate all the effort put into it. The fact that there's a long description for anything you can "examine" really shows all the time spent in making this interactive.
Not too exciting, but still fun
2024-01-24
by Pirplequeen
I would have liked it even better and may have given it a full five stars if there had been more peril and a more climactic ending. But it was a very enjoyable game, nonetheless.
Exceptionally well written
2024-08-09
by Ebouamfs
But soulless. Not very fun. I needed a walkthrough; knowing what to do or having to figure it out myself made little difference in the fun factor. Still, kudos on the totally free, really clever game.
Work through it it's worth it
2024-03-18
by YoyoVelociraptor
It's a thinking mans game, and it's wonderfully well thought out. Came back to re download
Hell yeah
2024-09-11
by ShakaUfaka
Great time killer and the map helps a lot
I never write reviews but…
2024-09-25
by Purpl Pangwin
I never write reviews but this is the best game EVER. My friend personally knows Zarf, and she showed me this game. I've been playing it for a few days now, non stop. Please get this game right now. It's free for a LIMITED TIME people. Also, Zarf is my spirit animal. If you want to look him up his real name is Andrew Plotkin but he doesn't like that so please refer to him as Zarf.
Very nicely done.
2024-06-20
by Jbird4h30
Digging through quite a few of these text adventures in iTunes & found most of them to be crap.
This one most certainly isn't.
Very nicely done.
I don't normally write reviews...
2024-09-25
by Aoisora120
...but this game is fantastic! The story is well-written, and the puzzles are challenging. It kept me glued to my screen the whole time.
As a first-time IF player, the tutorial and help screen were helpful. Don't be afraid to try this game if you're new to the genre, too.
Awesome!
2024-09-25
by OldGamerSeeker
I have been playing text adventure games since the very first one, I still remember the excitement of getting a new Infocom or similar game and diving into it and losing myself in new worlds. I have kept up with some of the recent releases and even played this one some on the pc. I was excited when I was able to play my old games on the iPad but it just seemed to be missing something that prevented me from diving back into the old masterpieces. What you have done here is provide that missing piece. The map feature you have added is awesome, the ability to just in a few taps bring up frequently used words and type commands and even take notes is fantastic. I would love to see Interactive Fiction take off again with full length games and the features you have added here in this one. Great Job!
Smooth, elegant iOS implementation of a newbie-friendly game
2024-06-24
by DGJerz
I've played for about 15 min and have not seen any errors. Very friendly for those new to interactive fiction -- the auto-map is beautiful, and I love being able to personalize the margins and line spacing. At first I thought it was not possible to enter words by tapping them on the screen -- there is no visual feedback if you tap once, so it didn't occur to me to double-tap. (I'm sure that feature is described in the instructions somewhere.)
Great!
2024-10-15
by Katy Linsao
In the past, I'd only played some short, low-effort interactive fiction, so this is the first real one I've tried. I really like it. As a big fan of escape-the-room games, I loved Dreamhold's puzzle aspect, as well as the fact that it let me use my imagination.
A clever spin on a classic idea
2024-09-25
by Peterb12
I've tried every text adventure and interpreter (such as the venerable Frotz) there is for the iPad, and I think that The Dreamhold brings a few new things to the table. The auto-map, which I suppose might irritate purists, is an idea whose time has clearly come. Likewise, I think the Achievements, which are something I normally disdain, seem to somehow make sense as a way of marking one's progress through the game in some manner beyond a simple numerical score.
Excellent
2024-06-20
by Sunnivaixchel
Excellent game, intriguing story, very expansive and detailed, very nice tutorial for IF gaming.
Is The Dreamhold Safe? 🤗🙏
Yes. The Dreamhold is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 14 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.8/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for The Dreamhold Is 72.2/100.
Is The Dreamhold Legit? 💯
Yes. The Dreamhold is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 14 The Dreamhold User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for The Dreamhold Is 89.9/100..
Is The Dreamhold not working? 🚨
The Dreamhold works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.
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Features
I’ve tried to create a game which rewards many species of adventurer: the inexperienced newcomer, the puzzle-hurdler, the casual tourist, the meticulous explorer, the wild experimenter, the seeker after nuances and implications.
- Text adventure devotees can turn off the tutorials and hints, or play in Expert mode for additional challenge.
*The Dreamhold* is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure.
There’s an extensive help system describing standard IF commands, as well as dynamic hints which pop up whenever you seem to be stuck.
It introduces the common commands and mindset of text adventures, one step at a time.
*The Dreamhold* is designed for people who have never played IF before.
- Full support for VoiceOver (speech output) and dictation (speech input) on devices that offer these features.
*The Dreamhold* won the XYZZY Awards for Best Puzzles and Best Use of Medium in 2004.
- Full-length puzzle adventure with several optional side quests and hidden endings.
No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
- Dynamic in-game map, so you don’t have to scribble boxes on a piece of paper.
- Fluid interface designed for comfortable typing and reading.
I want to introduce people to IF, and this game is how I do it.
Not “free with ads,” not “freemium.” Just free.
