Fit check
Is Dream of the Star Haven worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- First-person platformer fans who want exploration alongside jumping challenges
- Puzzle fans who enjoy platforming mixed with sokoban-style sections
- Players drawn to surreal stories about recovering lost parts and escaping an illusion
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for one consistent platforming format may find the shifts between first-person and side-scrolling sections disruptive.
- Those seeking a time-loop game to play now may find the experience incomplete for that expectation, since time-loop gameplay is planned for a future early-access update.
Our take on Dream of the Star Haven
Rather than staying with one platforming format, the game combines first-person leaps with side-scrolling sections and sokoban-style puzzles. Its time-loop concept also departs from a straightforward level-to-level structure, though that gameplay is planned for a future early-access update.
What is Dream of the Star Haven?
Dream of the Star Haven follows Aura, an alchemist trapped in a world created by a cosmic parasite.
Explore islands in the sky, search for scattered body parts, and gain powers as each one is recovered. The gameplay combines first-person giant-leap platforming with exploration, puzzles, and combat. It also includes side-scrolling 2. 5D platforming and sokoban-style puzzles. Gravity-bending abilities can turn the dreamlike environment upside down while Aura searches for a way out. The story centers on reassembling Aura after Star Haven separates her hands, feet, eyes, mind, and heart. A time-loop structure is part of the game’s concept, but time-loop gameplay is described as planned for a future early-access update.
How Dream of the Star Haven plays
- 01Body-part powers
- Recovering Aura’s hands, feet, eyes, mind, and heart grants new abilities.
- 02Gravity manipulation
- Gravity-bending powers let the player turn the dreamlike environment upside down while searching for a way forward.
- 03Mixed platforming formats
- The game combines first-person leaps, side-scrolling platforming, and sokoban-style puzzles.
Dream of the Star Haven compared to similar games
Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube also uses first-person worlds and environmental puzzles, while Dream of the Star Haven adds combat, body-part powers, and side-scrolling platforming. Levelhead focuses on co-op platforming, a campaign, and player-made levels; Dream of the Star Haven instead centers on exploration, puzzles, combat, and its surreal story.
Dream of the Star Haven: platforms & release
Is Dream of the Star Haven worth it?
It is worth it if: first-person platformer fans who want exploration alongside jumping challenges. Skip it if: players looking for one consistent platforming format may find the shifts between first-person and side-scrolling sections disruptive.
Where can I download Dream of the Star Haven?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Dream of the Star Haven's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Dream of the Star Haven on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
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