
In the end, Kian’s allies try him for treason and murder April.ĭreamfall: The Longest Journey took a different route when it came to gameplay, exploring the third person exploratory sandbox design and exporting to both PC and Xbox as well. As for April and Kian, Kian is sent to assassinate April but when he meets her on a no-name basis, he questions the task at hand. When her journalist boyfriend, Reza, goes missing, Zoe looks into it, discovering the creation of the dream machine and gets caught in an international conspiracy that leads to her spending months in a coma.

The story of Dreamfall: The Longest Journey takes place ten years following The Longest Journey and follows the lives of April Ryan, Kian Avane, and Zoe Castillo, all from different perspectives of the conflict at hand. When 2006 came around, it was time to make a second game.ĭreamfall: The Longest Journey is considered to be a sequel to The Longest Journey to some, but many argue that it is in fact a spin-off instead, following an alternative storyline with different protagonists in the same universe. The Longest Journey was quite the success and praised all around. April winds up exploring the world of Arcadia (the magic filled fantasy world accessible by dreaming) and discovering a truth about her true origins and the metropolis of Stark from the realistic realm that shake her understanding. The Longest Journey is a point and click game that takes place in the future, in the year 2209, where the protagonist, April Ryan, finds herself inevitably in between a conflict of two different dimensions upon discovering her ability to shift in and out of them by dreaming. In the late 90’s, Ragnar worked at Norwegian game studio Funcom, and led the development team for The Longest Journey, the first installment of the Dreamfall games and Funcom’s first original game.

Before I get into my experience though, let’s have a little review of The Longest Journey saga. On October 21st, Red Thread Studios released Dreamfall Chapters: Book One, and now that I’ve had an opportunity to play it I wanted to share my thoughts on it.

Continue the Journey with Dreamfall Chaptersīack in 2013, Red Thread Studios launched a Kickstarter campaign to continue along The Longest Journey/Dreamfall games: the brainchild of Ragnar Tørnquist.
