You are Alex Brooks, you used to be once just a detective, that is until you and your partner were shot. You died on the table for over three minutes but you were saved, sadly your partner died. Shortly after you left hospital and started to have black outs and nightmares so you started seeing a psychiatrist, but as you dig deeper into what these nightmares mean you soon learn they are much more than just dreams, something is coming to claim you and you now need to learn whats really going on before its to late. Haunted Dreams is a psychological horror in which you must find clues and solve puzzles in the real world to try and get closer to the truth of whats going on but as you black out and enter your nightmare world you must fight your demons and collect lost memories to awaken from the nightmare.
I played the demo for about an hour and some change and there are many things I would consider wrong with this game. The opening puzzle, with the lamps wasn't presented in a way that would "make sense"... There is nothing to suggesting that those lamps were movable. The combat is like a very broken high bred of HL2 and Condemned. When the Flash Light was activated, it seems to turn off some of the ambient lights, it also adds what looks like a dark vignette around the edge of the screen making it even harder to see... Also having the enter button as your action button is extremely annoying. It should be something easier to hit, like the E button, I don't want to remove my hand from the mouse, just to open a door. I could keep going about the game play, etc, but I'll stop. I honestly was considering buying this, I love horror games; Penumbra, Amnesia, Condemned, even old school ones like Realms of the Haunting, 7th Guest and Alone in the Dark are games I find highly enjoyable. Even considering this is in an unpolished state, I don't see how it could improve with its current game design choices and lack cohesive story.