As I Began to Dream, a hand-illustrated puzzle platformer, coming to Nintendo Switch

As I Began to Dream will be appearing on Nintendo Switch, Soft Source and Strayflux announced today. The game launches on November 20, 2025.

As I Began to Dream is a hand-illustrated puzzle platformer, which focuses on a young girl’s journey through a mysterious dream world. Main character Lily can swap and rotate the world around her as she goes on a journey through a dreamlike limbo world to find acceptance and peace.

Here’s some additional information:

Inspired by the five stages of grief, the worlds of As I Began to Dream reflect Lily’s journey of navigating, and coming to terms with loss. Each chapter provides a different atmosphere matching each stage; Denial is warm and familiar. Anger is a furious, sand-whipping desert. Bargaining is a strange, calculating land. Depression is overwhelming and bleak. Reaching Acceptance is a long, arduous journey, but welcomes you with brightness and hope.

As players venture through the various, dreamlike realms, explore manifestations of her life and experiences, recover the bits and pieces of Lily’s memories, find out what led her to this mysterious limbo, and guide her to finding peace and acceptance.

Key Features

• Tactile Puzzle Platforming: As I Began to Dream features a unique puzzle mechanic where players swap, rotate, and move blocks of the environment to solve platforming puzzles to progress through the world, and story. Combined with physics-based mechanics, and additional features like portals, enemies, and hazards, progression keeps players thinking and strategizing, while also not being overly difficult.
• Hand-Illustrated Visuals: As the story is told from the perspective of a child, the art and visuals of As I Began to Dream were largely influenced by children’s storybooks. Vast, dream-like, and full of childlike wonder and curiosity, the different worlds and settings in the game aim to emulate that same warm, hopeful feeling of diving into your favourite storybook from your childhood.
• Original Soundtrack: Composed by Indonesian composer JabFina, As I Began to Dream sinks you into the dream worlds Lily explores accompanied by a peaceful, melancholy soundtrack with over 37 original tracks.

View a trailer for the title below.

Release Date Trailer

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