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Games Like Just A Dream

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Just a Dream is a fast paced top down action game. You enter a world filled with your worst nightmares and must escape. As you fight across your dream from level to level, you encounter the very things that you dread every night.

Reviews: Very Positive — 83% — of 80 reviews
Released: 2017-10-31
Developer: The Hyper Carries!
Genres: Action, Free To Play, Indie
Platforms: Windows

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