‘Sleep Swimmer’ Relaxes by Gathering Sounds Underneath 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 folks to wile the times away.

We regularly discover themselves overwhelmed within the rush of our present society. There are such a lot of completely different pressures which are always pushing themselves on folks: payments due, work deadlines to satisfy, house responsibilities to finish, messages from associates to reply. Sleep Swimmer takes you right into a world the place a younger woman 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 large 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 acquire sounds to mess around with. The varied sounds that you simply acquire can be utilized to create completely different music, which is one other enjoyable facet to the sport. That is finished via a controller-looking menu that has completely 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 like a extremely untrusting man, wants your assist with the city, but it surely’s fairly a low-pressure exercise. You may then spend a while exploring the completely different homes, interacting with good creatures, and making an attempt to assist wherever you may. 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 actual world can usually really feel like. And there’s something enjoyable about the best way you float, swimming via rooms and discovering new areas to discover.

Sleep Swimmer is at the moment in improvement, however within the meantime, you may comply with its improvement on Twitter. 

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Huge Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and lots of extra, all with a give attention to smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds 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 all the recreation jams occurring on this planet, judges many jams and occasions. Jupiter can also be the Adept Video games Wizard at Armor Video games.