Dreamworld: An Unconscious Mind Card Game (2024)

About this game

Dreamworld is a lightweight card game for 2–4 players that plays in 20–30 minutes. It is designed by Jonny Pac, co-designer of Unconscious Mind and the lead developer for Fantasia Games. As a follower of Freud’s theories of the unconscious mind, your goal is to help suffering people recover from their psychological traumas. You can foster each client’s healing potential by interpreting the symbolism of their dreams. At the start of a round, each player chooses a dream card and simultaneously reveals it. Next, you’ll arrange the cards numerically beside the current client. The difference between your card’s number and the next limits how many treatment tokens you may score: the bigger the gap, the better. If you’re the first to complete all your tokens, it proves your treatments were the most effective—making you Freud’s most formidable contemporary. —description from the publisher

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 1 to 4. It has a designed solo mode.
• Rules load. At 1.8/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 12 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.