The Butterfly Dreams
A downloadable dream for Windows, Linux, and Android
Dare to Dream
Asynthesis is proud to unveil their latest innovation in gaming technology: Fantasia.
A whole-consciousness immersion that doesn't just bring you the game, but brings you INTO the game.
A group of seven distinguished luminaries from various fields have been invited by the CEO of Asynthesis to try this highly confidential technology for themselves. But they're not there simply to play. They're there to create. Create whole worlds, whole universes indistinguishable from the real world, limited only by their imagination.
When the world's geniuses are given free rein to make their own realities, what could possibly go wrong?
Features
The Butterfly Dreams is a psychological mystery visual novel. Meet a cast of colorful characters who are given the power to make their own worlds —and go into each others'. It might lead to the perfect dream or an endless nightmare. But how do you distinguish one from the other?
🦋~11k words (about 45 minutes of reading time)
🦋A cast of 7 colorful characters
🦋One ending and one unlockable post-epilogue
The first $100 of your purchase will go towards our Steam Page.
You can also support us on Ko-Fi and Trakteer!
Credits
🦋Script by RakaP
🦋Character design and artwork by Asteriesling
🦋Coding and animation by Requiem
🦋QC by OmTivi
Attributions
🦋Backgrounds by Karina Vorozheeva, Fidel Fernando, Lawrence Hookham, Dan Gold, Sieuwert Otterloo, Aaron Huber, Paolo Chiabrando, Carl Raw, Libby Penner, Valdemaras D., Benjamin Davies, Clay Banks, Joao Alexandre Paulo, Nicolas Lysandrou, Dominik QN, José Ignacio García Zajaczkowski, Philip Katzenberger, flower&clover
🦋Additional sprites by Nana Miyuki Atelier, Transitions by Kia, GUI Template by Skolaztika
🦋Shaders by birctreel, Wattson, Neurochitin, Nai
🦋Additional script by Aquapaulo, jsfehler
🦋Music by Peritune, SFX by Pixabay, floraphonic, SoundEffectLab
🦋Special thanks to Feniks, Lezalith, Seronis, and AxelKong in Ren'py's Discord Server
🦋And from where the butterfly emerged, special thanks to Xerofit51/CeylonEnt and Genshiken ITB
In Promotional Materials:
🦋SFX by iainmccurdy, IcedPhoenix, DJBurnham
🦋Images by Yan Krukau, Pixabay
🦋Video by NewHumanDesigns
Attention
The PC build can theoretically be run on Linux, but please understand that we do not possess a Linux machine to test it on. You may encounter errors we do not anticipate, layouts breaking, and other inconveniences. Please be aware of this before buying.
Purchase
In order to download this dream you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Extras
Support this dream at or above a special price point to receive something exclusive.
Community Copies
If you don't have the budget to purchase the game at full price, for whatever reason, feel free to claim a community copy—no judgement. You can also pay whatever you want.
All we ask is for you to leave a review or a rating, good or bad. It will really help us improve.
One must vow to leave at least one sentence review, else one's skull would split, unleashing a million man-faced butterflies.
Please spread the word if you like the game! We will add a community copy per 10 games sold.
Development log
- News: Onto Steam6 days ago
- The Butterfly Emerges14 days ago
- News: Let's Talk Community Copies!21 days ago
- News: We have a launch trailer!22 days ago
- Devlog #3: Flight to Silver Screen23 days ago
- News: A whoopsie and changing release date26 days ago
- Devlog #2: It Took Us 7 Years to Make This Game27 days ago
- Devlog #1: Origins of the Butterfly32 days ago
Comments
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I really liked the evocative descriptions on nature. Really drew me in together with the wonderful illustrations, and I think personally the scene where Renata went like, "Hold my kid-friendly non-alcoholic beer" and did her thing was the standout moment for me along with that illustration of the tree and the slanted hillside.
I was really surprised there was only one ending, and I still can't believe it even though it says so in the description :P Gotta echo the other comments there in that I think reaching the ending the first time really incentivizes the player to see about the other choices as well. Maybe there's some untapped potential there?
Thanks for your review! We are collecting feedbacks as we do plan to improve several things along with the Steam version release. There is only one ending, but you can be locked out of the final scene.
We discussed the possibility to adding more branches, but as this had roots in a short story, one of us thought it might be good to keep this simple and contained. We’ll see.
This was great! I even replayed it multiple times to make sure I got all the endings. I like going in blind and I’m glad I did that! Everything surprised me. All of the twists and the characters! I really like how the characters’ movements made them unique and how all of the effects were done in this game!
Also because of the ending, I want to see more TTATT)b I mean like what happened to the other characters and that character?? Huwaa–! But anyways, that was so great, totally worth it. Great job team!
Thank you for playing! To [begin] and to [end]… Perhaps we will get to meet them again someday.
A nice visual novel that can be played after a long day or on the weekend. I love the usage of motifs throughout all aspect and there are lots of wholehearted polishes. The plot has good execution, especially with numerous SUBTLE hints of what the big reveal would be (though those who fail their perception check might miss them). The characters are colorful and hopefully we can see them again in this well written world.
Dating sim please!Thank you for playing! Who knows, maybe we’ll get to see them again… maybe in a pachislot? wink
I probably failed most of the perception checks :P There were like one or two things I was wondering about during the playthough, and they sorta got answered at the end. But I really love it when you can go back and find things you missed the first time around.
This is a really cool concept
Thank you!
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It’s out now~