Mimpi Dreams A Heroic Dog's Gentle Dreams

Mimpi walks and jumps on three buttons, but the real work happens with the cursor. You are the sidekick: drag a cloud with Mimpi sitting on it to the right spot, flip a switch, gather objects in the right order, nudge fruit and trees out of the way to clear his path. Each puzzle asks for something a little different, and most of them yield to plain observation rather than head-scratching. Some are sliding tiles, some are simple arithmetic, and a few end in small boss encounters. When a puzzle stumps you, pop a hint balloon and it walks you through the thinking.

Every level is its own dream with its own theme, palette and puzzles. Mimpi dozes off in a forest and wakes inside a stoneface woodland, a Tesla landscape crackling with electricity, a seaside where ships sail inside bottles, a fairytale land and a medieval castle. Each dream is a small story told in comic-style speech bubbles, no words needed: Mimpi shows up, finds someone in trouble (a lab rat who wants out, a princess held by a dragon, a lost pirate ship) and saves the day. The hand-drawn, cartoon look is bright and layered, and the light soundtrack by Jaroslav Vyhnička and Alexandre Guiraud keeps everything calm. Along the way you collect bones and lightbulbs, and each world dresses Mimpi in a new costume, changed automatically.