Dreamwell

About this board game

Dreamwell is a competitive board game for 2–4 players, with a playing time of about 45 minutes, in which you navigate a dreamlike maze to locate your lost friends.

Set in a world beyond waking, the game invites players into the Dreamwell, a 4×4 grid made from tiles. Each tile depicts an environment and a creature, along with pathways leading toward neighboring tiles. Together, these tiles create a maze that players must carefully explore and reshape.

At the beginning of the game, each player receives two cards. Every card shows a missing friend and identifies the two creatures and environment required to find that particular friend. Reaching the right locations and assembling the necessary combination is central to your search.

On your turn, you take three actions from the available options. Your choices let you adapt your route, seek new possibilities, or make progress toward bringing a friend home:

• Move one of your pawns.
• Rotate a tile.
• Draw a card.
• Replace the display.
• Locate one of your missing friends by playing a card.

The shifting, maze-like layout means that navigating the Dreamwell is more than simply moving from one space to another. You will need to pay attention to pathways, environments, creatures, and the requirements shown on your cards as you decide how to spend your three actions.

Featuring the distinctive art of Tara McPherson, Dreamwell combines a fantastical setting with tile movement, tile rotation, card play, and a race to locate lost friends. Find your way through the vast Dreamwell and be the player who completes the search.