“I’m so excited to introduce Melatonin to a whole new audience of gamers!” says David Huynh, developer at Half Asleep. “As a huge fan of rhythm games, I truly hope that Melatonin can inspire players to try more games in the genre and that it encourages game devs to make more of them too.”
Melatonin was originally released on PC in December 2022 and received Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment from over 4,500 Steam reviewers. The game later came to the Nintendo Switch.
Melatonin takes around 2 to 3 hours to complete.
About Melatonin
Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music without any intimidating overlays or interfaces.
Melatonin explores the relationship between the dreams we have when we’re asleep and the experiences we go through when we’re awake, through unique rhythm game levels. Hand-drawn in a colorful and detailed visual style, with music produced to flow hand-in-hand with the gameplay and visuals, you will piece together elements about the main character’s life as you dive deeper and deeper into their dreams at night.
Features:
- Discover over 20 dreamy levels spread across 5 chapters, with every level introducing a new way to follow the rhythm.
- Unlock Challenge Modes that will test your rhythm reflexes and skill.
- Experience Melatonin from a new perspective by unlocking fun level Mashups.
- Make the rhythm game level of your dreams with an easy to use Level Editor.
- Use Practice Mode to guide you through each level.
- Try out plenty of assist features if you’re feeling lost.
For more information on Melatonin, visit https://www.halfasleep.games/melatonin/.
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For screenshots, key art, gifs and trailers, you can find the presskit here.
About Half Asleep
Melatonin was developed in Vancouver by David Huynh. He previously worked in graphic design, interface design, and user experience design before making the jump to indie game development. This will be the first game released from the developer but there are big plans to build up a team and make more dreamy games after the release of Melatonin.
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