‘Sleep Swimmer’ Relaxes by Gathering Sounds Below the Sea

Sleep Swimmer escapes from the hectic tempo of on a regular basis life to a world beneath the ocean, accumulating sounds and serving to individuals to wile the times away.

We regularly discover themselves overwhelmed within the rush of our present society. There are such a lot of totally different pressures which can be consistently pushing themselves on individuals: payments due, work deadlines to satisfy, housekeeping to finish, messages from pals to reply. Sleep Swimmer takes you right into a world the place a younger lady has gotten so overwhelmed with the world that she is now visiting salamanders within the sea. You play as a younger grownup who has wandered off right into a world within the sea. There are a bunch of salamander-like creatures who all have easy hobbies and easy wants. They hand around in huge houses with their shrimp pets and are all in search of small acts of kindness to assist them alongside. As the brand new individual within the city, you’re welcomed.

And also you begin to gather sounds to mess around with. The assorted sounds that you simply gather can be utilized to create totally different music, which is one other enjoyable side to the sport. That is performed by way of a controller-looking menu that has totally different buttons so that you can use to play the sounds you’ve gotten. Ones that you haven’t obtained nonetheless present icons, offering little hints as to what you’re in search of subsequent.

The Mayor, who looks as if a very untrusting man, wants your assist with the city, however it’s fairly a low-pressure exercise. You possibly can then spend a while exploring the totally different homes, interacting with good creatures, and attempting to assist wherever you possibly can. One salamander wants some pet meals, permitting you to document their pet’s sounds as soon as they’re fed. Everybody appears to assist one another in Sleep Swimmer, and the characters are all calm – not overwhelming and demanding like those in the true world can typically really feel like. And there’s something enjoyable about the best way you float, swimming by way of rooms and discovering new areas to discover.

Sleep Swimmer is at the moment in growth, however within the meantime, you possibly can comply with its growth on Twitter. 

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Large Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and lots of extra, all with a give attention to smaller indie gems. She covers 1000’s of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire recreation jams happening on this planet, judges many jams and occasions. Jupiter can be the Adept Video games Wizard at Armor Video games.