New indie text adventure hides an eerie vaporwave labyrinth

It’s the pit of summer: humid weeks of midday naps that end with the sensation of the brain resetting. Some dreams can be logged and picked apart with certainty; the frayed, scattered ones bob in a darkened void like blinking eyes hiding in a starry veil. In The Dreams in the Peacock House you might still be sleeping.

You awaken in a small room with a mirror, a door and a hammer; smashing them unfurls a larger, darkened estate set in a quiet bog, like a centuries-old hunting lodge. Abandoned diaries, seemingly penned by Argus in a fit of loathing, dot the manor. What you’re really seeking are Argus’ eyes, which grant access to the Sanctum Sanctorum a short path down from the manor — solve puzzles to find each eye, but secure them at the risk of a very viciously lucid dream.

Beneath the text lies a labyrinth of bright EGA colors and glitched, vapory monsters.

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