- Demo Update - 17 July 2026
Greetings, Dreamers! As you may know, we have encountered a problem where Demo save files are being mixed with the Playtest. Recently, we were able to locate and solve the issue within the last update. With this update, the game will be able to create a new folder for your save files, and it will not try to pull them from the Playtest. Unfortunately, this means that your Demo progress will be lost. Fortunately, it will not be deleted from the PC. To restore your Demo save files, follow the instructions below: Copy the first command here, Press ⊞ Win + R and Paste the path. Drag your save to the updated Demo folder by Coping a new command here, Pressing ⊞ Win + R and Pasting the path. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for understanding!
- First Public Demo is OUT NOW - 16 July 2026
Awaken and stir from slumber, Dreamers. The Word has spoken, and it is written that you will try the first public demo for Being and Becoming today. It is also written that you will behold the brand-new trailer as you get ready to take the plunge. Disobeying The Word would be unwise, so without further ado… Since our last time together, the world has become even more dangerous and hostile, Dreamer. In the First Public Demo of Being and Becoming, you will: Explore The Garden of Gethsemane Expect no welcome here. The Garden has long since succumbed to corruption. Its roots drink from ashen soil, and blossoms hang swollen with decay. Rot has become the only harvest, and death is its silent gardener. In this forgotten land, every shadow conceals an ancient hunger, and every step may become your last. Follow your PredecessorsDeep within the depths of The Garden lies the body of another of th…
- Being & Becoming: Playtest is Closing Soon - 26 February 2026
Thank you, Dreamers! We’ve received a ton of amazing feedback and are forever grateful for your diligence, interest, loyalty and expertise! You gave us advice, criticism and, most importantly, your first-hand-passionate experience. This all will help us shape Being & Becoming into a game that will live up to your expectations and trust. In return, we’d love to share a little bit of player statistics with you. 60% of players have finished the full Playtest build. Next time we will make sure to treat you with even more challenges to beat and secrets to discover. We have received feedback from people who live in more than 70 countries worldwide. One even came from Narnia. We are watching you closely now, Aslan! 85% of our players preferred The Mother Superior to The Organ. Is there some Family vs. Music conflict going on somewhere right now? And, well… visuals! You’ve praised them so much…
- Being & Becoming: Playtest OUT NOW - 20 January 2026
Dear Dreamers, Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, we're eager to finally say these words aloud: Welcome to The Collective Dream! The Being & Becoming Playtest has finally begun. It’s been a long and challenging road, but we hope that you’ll love The Dream we’ve been weaving in the background. Hold steadfast to your anchor and your faith, and take the plunge! The world ahead is dangerous and hostile, O Dreamers. You will: Discover Relics Each of the faithful is blessed by a relic of great power from The Word. Find relics from fallen divers that radically alter your combat abilities. There are no 5% more damage bonuses, only unique effects with stunning visuals. Mix and match any you can find to create new playstyles unique to your personal tastes or to counter specific enemies and bosses. Unravel the Mystery of The Dream The Word’s prophecy is fate itself. Discover your place…
- Being & Becoming: Playtest Date is Set - 15 January 2026
Rise and shine, Dreamers. We hope that your Christmas and New Year have been graceful enough, with dinners tasty and the slumber restorative. BE PREPARED! We didn’t come empty-handed! The Playtest of Being & Becoming Playtest is launching on January 20th. You still have enough time to sign up for the playtest and get notified the second it goes live! So… what awaits you, Dreamers? Treacherous Terrains. The Dream has begun to decay. The once peaceful Dream is now inhabited by savage, corrupted monstrosities. Majestic landscapes and architecture are now on the verge of crumbling into dust and the once safe routes are consumed by profane horrors and overgrowth. Unforgiving Bosses. Who knows what is lurking within each strange principality of The Dream. Many of the faithful have become unspeakable horrors, but there seems to be a hierarchy within that corruption. The Third Temple and the Aq…
- Being & Becoming: the Playtest is Coming - 29 November 2025
Greetings, Dreamers. As time marches on, we are finally ready to guide you through the Upcoming Playtest of Being & Becoming. Let’s dive into it together, shall we? Don’t let beauty lull your vigilance, Dreamers. The deeper you descend, the more treacherous the world becomes: Decaying terrains — travel through a monumental temple, an ichor-bubbling forest, and an enigmatic, arcane aqueduct. Watch each step and calculate each jump with careful precision. Crumbling platforms and entrapped passages are just the beginning. Corrupted enemies — don’t let the crawling horrors and bloodthirsty vegetation fool you. Their decrepit and sickly appearance conceals their true threat. No mistake will be forgiven here. Faithful weaponry — the Exalted Axe and Cleaver are not the only allies your predecessors have left for you. The other faithful perished after failing in their mission, but now it's your…
- Lost in the Forest - 29 May 2025
Greetings, everyone. It’s been a while since our last journey together. Without further ado, we will take you on a guided tour for one of the upcoming locations in Being & Becoming. Let us Dive into this together, shall we? Emerging from the ruins of a once grand cathedral, you descend into an ominous cavern. Bioluminescent ichor bubbling up from the pustules within the wood illuminates the treacherous path deeper in. https://i.postimg.cc/8C4DCBnW/1.gif You radiate your own light within this foreboding darkness… https://i.postimg.cc/G2qPPD07/NEW-HEAD.gif What other horrors could be lurking within these woods… The blood of a renown battle watered the dense vegetation within The Great Forest of Gilead. They say the forest devoured more men than the sword. It now sits mired in corruption from the fallen star, Wormwood. The Wolf sinks his teeth into the wood itself, manifesting from the cor…
- Progress Report - Molding the Dream - 23 September 2024
Greetings, Dreamers! Quite some time has passed since you heard from us. And today we are going to share a lot of progress to make it worth the wait. The game received a lot of changes, went through several builds, and some of the game’s systems were completely redesigned. And, of course, new content was added! Core Combat Redesign This anchor sunk us into the dream, yet it holds our hope, a hope both sure and steadfast and a one which enters within the veil. We thought a lot about ways to make our combat system deeper and more engaging. To encourage the player to use all sorts of tactics when facing different opponents. The other goal was to make the combat loop more interesting — encouraging players to combine available abilities as they see fit. With this in mind we designed a new combat system. Enemy stamina. Now enemies have stamina that can be drained by your heavy strikes. Some o…
- Devlog: Introduction to the Music - 28 June 2024
Their forms are crumbling in the vaults around, Whilst I, across the sea, but dream the sound. - H.P. Lovecraft Greetings, Dreamers! Today we’re going to embark on a musical journey to unveil some of the production secrets of Being and Becoming. Welcome Holland Albright, the genius behind the original score, whose works you will get to know closely in the upcoming demo later this year. Holland is a self-taught composer, specializing in fantasy, video game/RPG (VGM), classical, orchestral, and piano music. Where the music of Dreams is born: Holland Albright home studio. Let the music transport you into the deepest layers of the subconscious Collective mind: Here’s the tracklist of the upcoming demo: Corrupted Dream (Demo Main Menu) Encore et Encore (Instrumental) Surprise Attack Surprise Attack: Reveal Encore et Encore (feat. Tze Liew) The Apostate (Phase 1) The Apostate (Phase 2) Dreamc…
- Memory Journal — Your Beacon of (In)Sanity - 19 April 2024
Welcome back, Dreamers. It’s been a while since our last glimpse into the world of Being & Becoming, hasn’t it? During these months, the project underwent significant reworks of several of its systems, which we are excited to share with you as time comes. Rest assured, the project is now taking its final form, which means more updates in the coming months; expect a more consistent devlog schedule from this moment on. Speaking of, the next entry after this one will delve into some of those new systems and showy moments we’re very much looking forward to sharing with you. Thank you for your continued patience and support. And now… Welcome back to the tumultuous depths, O Dreamers… In the Midnight heaven's burning Through the ethereal deeps afar Once I watch'd with restless yearning An alluring aureate star… — H.P. Lovecraft The following is a recount of this world’s events as experienced…
- Memory Journal - The First Lucid Dreamer - 13 October 2023
“Reaching, gasping, wishing, longing For the pageant brought to sight, Vain I watch’d the gold orbs thronging Round celestial poles of light. Madly on a moonbeam ladder Heav’n’s abyss I sought to scale, Ever wiser, ever sadder, As the fruitless task would fail…” - H.P. Lovecraft The following is a recount of this world’s events as experienced by the Lucid Dreamer The faces of the ones who strapped this diver suit on you and stranded you beneath the waves feel just beyond the periphery of your vision. Their faces are full of a potent mix of loathing and misery. Your resistance to the voice you have all heard is a condemnation of their iniquity. They sank you with an anchor, but their own guilt weighed heavier. As you plummeted deeper into the depths, those faces were but a fleeting dream, unlike the endless golden eyes that watch your every move or the disembodied voice that rattles your…
- Devlog: Introduction to the Setting and Art - 31 May 2023
Welcome again, Dreamers! We’ve all seen some captivating footage from the world of Being & Becoming for long enough, but now it’s time to lift the veil and take a glimpse into what this world actually is. In Being and Becoming, you are dropped into the Dream. The king of a seaside kingdom falls into a deep slumber that twists the kingdom’s majestic architecture into a nightmarish world and its once-dignified citizens into a mockery of what they once were. The Dream can manifest any thought and desire into reality, but as the hearts of men grow dark, only a twisted nightmare is born from their minds. They need only ask the mysterious Dreamcatcher for their desires to become realized… You, however, are different. As a Lucid Dreamer, you can stay in control and dispel the Dream. It is up to you to visit various locations throughout the Kingdom and save or slay that which lurks there. As yo…
- Kickstarter Announcement + DevGamm Fest - 24 November 2022
Hello, lucid dreamers! We are happy to announce that Being & Becoming is part of DevGamm 2022! Learn more about the game by visiting its DevGAMM page! Enter DevGAMM We're also excited to announce Kickstarter campaign for Being & Becoming! It's not online just yet, but we encourage you to follow the campaign's page to get notified as soon as it starts. Being & Becoming on Kickstarter This way you'll receive all the important updates as soon as they're rolled out and can monitor the game's progress. The development is well underway, and we are actively working on adding new content, set pieces, and improving the game's battle system. The additional funding will be used to make development as smooth as possible, and cut down on some of the development time. With your support, we will be sure to make the game as polished as it can possibly be. Stay tuned! Lastly, if you wish to always stay…
- Being & Becoming — The MIX Next Showcase Recap - 28 October 2022
Greetings, Dreamers! Our latest Being & Becoming trailer was just featured at the MIX Next Showcase. If you missed it live, now's the chance to get a new glimpse at the Collective Dream: And yes, we have just announced our upcoming Kickstarter campaign that will be coming soon! We want to make Being & Becoming as horrifyingly beautiful and densely packed with content, and we need your help to achieve this goal. We will share more details in our upcoming devlogs in the future, but for now you can follow our Kickstarter page to get notified when the campaign is going to be live. Follow Our Kickstarter Page Thank you all so much for your support so far and we're super excited to show you all the stuff we have planned very soon! Until next time, Dreamers! Follow the game on Twitter. Join the conversation on Discord
- Devlog 1: The Nightmares to Come - 11 June 2022
Welcome, Dreamers, to the first in-depth look at the grotesque, bizarre and wonderful world of Being and Becoming! First of all, we're incredibly proud to share a new trailer that just aired on the Future Games Show! Go check it out here: Today, we’ll reveal one of the standout features of the game - the nightmarish twists the world goes through as players progress in the game. In Being and Becoming, a Collective Dream from within a seaside kingdom has spilled into reality. You will have to rescue lost souls twisted by this dream, facing all manner of bizarre and corrupt nightmares. There are multiple ways this manifests through the story, one of them being this area. https://i.imgur.com/vnZyt9B.gif Not just the surroundings are affected - enemies are also changed by it, which is reflected in some of their designs. https://i.imgur.com/2NhrVLc.gif https://i.imgur.com/Sy8qGAb.gif Be ready…
- Being & Becoming at Going Rogue 2022 - 2 May 2022
Hello, dream divers! We're happy to announce that Being & Becoming will be featured as part of Going Rogue event on Steam. Catch us streaming LIVE one of earlier builds of the game here, on our Steam page! And don't forget to follow our socials for more news and announcements! Twitter Discord
- Being & Becoming live at MIX 10th Anniversary - 22 March 2022
Welcome, Dreamers! As part of MIX 10th Anniversary we will be streaming gameplay for Being & Becoming on Steam. Join us LIVE on March 23rd, 2 pm CET here on our Steam page! Follow us: Twitter Discord
- Being & Becoming — Welcome to the Collective Dream - 22 March 2022
Hello, brave Dreamers Today we’re happy to announce Being & Becoming — an atmospheric 2D metroidvania in the setting of lovecraftian horror. Take on the role of the Lucid Dreamer, defeat and consume the souls of the corrupted, then use them as weapons to break the world free from endless slumber. Are you ready to delve into surreal waking nightmare? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1917990/Being_and_Becoming/ Follow us: Twitter Discord
