Dreamweb

In 1992, Creative Empire Interactive published DreamWeb, a top-down adventure game developed by Creative Reality. The game is adult oriented and features a parser-free user interface.
The story revolves around an anti-hero, the bartender Ryan. Ryan’s horrible nightmares are keeping him from getting any sort of sleep, and he finds himself late for work on a regular basis. In his last dream, he is visited by a monk who tells him that he is the deliverer and must defeat the seven evils that are trying to break the DreamWeb.

In 1992, Creative Empire Interactive published DreamWeb, a top-down adventure game developed by Creative Reality. The game is adult oriented and features a parser-free user interface.
The story revolves around an anti-hero, the bartender Ryan. Ryan’s horrible nightmares are keeping him from getting any sort of sleep, and he finds himself late for work on a regular basis. In his last dream, he is visited by a monk who tells him that he is the deliverer and must defeat the seven evils that are trying to break the DreamWeb. His rest is fitful and he is again late for work. This routine eventually sees him fired, but given a two-week grace period in which to sort out his difficulties and become a functional member of the work force once again.
Ryan then sets out to kill the seven evils during this two week time period. His quest involves tracking down each of the evils using a variety of clues and by watching the local news on television. Ryan basically goes on a killing spree, tracking down the seven evils and killing anyone he needs to in order to get to them. These crimes will eventually catch up to him, but in the course of the actual story line, it simply seems routine. The results of these killings are often gory and graphic. There is also a virtually uncensored sex scene, one of the first of its kind in a video game.
DreamWeb is a top-down adventure game in a point and click style. There is no parser, so all commands are issued via the mouse and pixel hunting. There are some disadvantages and advantages to this style. First of all, it is very easy to navigate and to see items within the room. However, you never get a look at the non-playing characters because their faces can’t be seen from the bird’s eye view. The dialogue is straightforward and there are no options as to how Ryan will react to conversations, anyway, so seeing the NPCs is not necessarily a distracter. Despite the lack of conversation, the characters are still well developed and the story is rich and dark. The puzzles have drawn some fire from critics for their erratic nature. Some are ridiculously simplistic and others are difficult and require a nearly random mind to solve. DreamWeb also features a multitude of items that can be manipulated, but serve no purpose in the game, making for more trial and error work when solving puzzles.
Overall, DreamWeb is an adults-only adventure game. The themes are mature, the play is advanced, and some scenes are violently or sexually explicit. Download it and give it a try. It is worth a look.