About the Game
Lost in the endless expanse of s̴p̵a̶c̵e̵, you must fight off endless hordes of inter-dimensional beings t̷o̶ ̸c̵l̵a̷i̵m̵ a few more brief moments of life. P̸̯͛i̸̲͌c̶̖͝a̵̙̔ý̵̥u̷̱̒n̸͖̓ḛ̸̔ ̷̣̕D̵̢͑r̵̰̕e̶̘̓ã̴̧m̶͉̈s̶͓̄ will challenge your skill, endurance, and perseverance through a m̸i̴n̷d̴ ̵w̴a̶r̶p̷i̶n̵g̸, psychedelic, bullet hell nightmare.
Survive hordes of nightmarish creatures. This game does not favor passive builds, and will require you to stay on your toes, weaving through enemies and incoming attacks, while collecting resources and upgrades when and where you can. Modify your runs with limited elements of roguelite progression.
A gauntlet of Bullet Hell bosses will test both your defenses and offenses. These high-octane, punishing battles are be driven by a pulse-pounding, glitchcore soundtrack from Milkypossum.
Immerse yourself in a psychedelic atmosphere, filled with secrets, that will keep you guessing at every turn. The more you think you know of the story, the more layers you'll find to peel back. The story elements are largely option, but will provide depth and context for players who wish to explore every corner of Picayune Dreams.
Inspirations
Taking inspiration from a varied collection of our favourite games: Vampire Survivors (roguelike horde survival), Touhou (true bullet hell), Yume Nikki (surrealist visual stylings and secrets), and Diablo (power scaling and item visualization).
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 17998636
Up to date
- Change: Skill Loadouts should now turn red immediately if you have less skillpoints, instead of requiring a mouseover.
- Change: Modding API has been expanded further. (Thank you, TabularElf!) Images and sounds can now be replaced, and there's examples of these mods in the mods folder.
- Fix: Fixed an interaction between free glitched Rerolls and the skill that let you use Blackholes as rerolls.
- Fix: Fixed Demon Horns ring not properly aligning after previous changes.
- Fix: Fixed C4 description to have the updated damage.
- Fix: Optimized suit would make "Drill Versions" go up by 2 wrongly, now they go up by just 1.
- Fix: Demon Wings did 2 less damage than it was meant to.
- Fix: Shrapnel Shells now properly scale with Weapon Size.
- Change: Shrapnel Shells damage adjust, 25 + (2*VERSION) > 20 + (3*VERSION).
- Buff: ParaSight movement logic and speed reverted to how it was prior to Contamination update.
- Change: All statues blown up will give Curse and drop a floppy, no matter what.
- Change: Yuki will no longer spawn if the Statue is destroyed while enemies aren't spawning.
- Change: Umi should leave more reliably if enemies aren't spawning.
- Fix: Grammar mistake in Missing Award.
- Fix: Fixed Funky Carrot saying the wrong cooldown in its description.
- Fix: Fixed Cursed Skull in Collection saying a lower speed.
- Buff: Worn suit maximum Scale increase, 1.25x > 1.4x.
- Nerf: Perfected Suit can only use the free reroll if it has less than the current max amount of items.
- Nerf: Perfected Suit only starts with 1 Blackhole capacity.
- Fix: Fixed a crash where scrolling with the gamepad in the settings would cause explosions and mass devastation. :(
- Change: Collection and Settings scrollbar now has a bit of deadzone when using gamepad analog.
- Change: XP cans setting has been reverted to 1 for everyone. Because this setting was in the game prior to the Contamination update, and then reintroduced, there was a lot of people who had the option disabled prior, forgot about it and then suddenly had performance issues unsure what had changed. This is just to put everyone back to what they'd expect, and everyone who wants it off can just turn it off again.
- Change: Skill Loadouts will now tell you how many skillpoints were invested into it, and also warn you if you have less than that amount, so you don't ruin your loadouts when prestiging.
- Change: Optimization pass on XP cans.
- Fix: Fixed an issue where Ban #10 wouldn't be saved when changing loadouts.
- Fix: Psycho Helmet didn't properly scale with GameSpeed.
- Fix: Beating a run with 0 upgrades chosen used to result in the collection returning a ???, but now it properly shows 0. For that one insane person.
- Fix: When IVBag overheal is enabled, minimum HP is clapped to 0 to make Doom Delay interactions more consistent.
- Nerf: IVBag overheal time, 30 * VERSION > 20 * VERSION.
- Buff: Tank Suit retaliation bite damage increased, HP*4 > 50 + (HP*4).
- Buff: Tank Suit retaliation bite knockback increased, 6 > 8.
- Buff: Worn Suit cooldown adjusted, -50% > -20%.
- Buff: Absorb Suit instantly absorbs all experience created.
- Buff: Perfected Suit now has a permanent corrupted Reroll.
- Nerf: Absorb Suit XP radius reduced, +500% > +300%.
- Change: Optimized Suit now needs 2x XP to level up, but gets two VERSIONS per upgrade.
Hope everyone is doing well! <3 I've been trying to sort out some Points Shop related stuff lately. Fingers crossed that will be up soon! What've you been listening to?
Hotfixed:
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- Change: Lowered Boss Overdrive scaling to 7.5% * clamp(bosses_killed,9) * Overdrive.
- Fix: Fixed some of the Core values.
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- Change: Lowered Boss Overdrive scaling to 5% * clamp(bosses killed,5) * Overdrive.
- Fix: Fixed 'slimey'.
- Change: Yuki can no longer be slowed or stunned.
- Change: Made Boss HP bars easier to see in Fast Forward mode.
- Change: Boss Elemental resistance lowered, 300% > 150%.
- Added: You can now swap between 4 different loadouts, so you can have different builds saved depending on what you want to do.
- Buff: Demon Horns initial range increased, 48 > 64.
- Buff: Lighter fire damage increase, 2 > 3.
- Nerf: Demon Horns per level range decrease, 4 > 1.5.
- Nerf: Demon Horns damage, 125 > 100.
- Buff: Missing Award elemental chances, 0.01 > 0.05.
- Nerf: Core bullet lifetime reduced, 120 > 60.
- Change: Core bullet spread reduced from 6 to 4.
- Change: Core aiming will now be better aligned with the Cursor as it levels up. (Thank you, CryptixDT)
- Change: Boss Health gain per Overdrive level, 40% > 15% * clamp(Bosses Killed,10). (please tell me if the boss fights take too long now on high overdrives).
- Change: Multiple Yoyos can be created on the same frame instead of just one.
- Fix: Changed how 50 Mortality Boss calculates its phases, to remove some softlocks.
- Fix: When an area's modifier is removed by a boss, it now removes it from the HUD properly.
- Change: Change Statues to use arrays instead of dslists, tell me if you notice any weirdness.
- (Hotfixed)
- Fix: Fixed a bug were accidentally Shock and Ice were flipped with their proc chances.
- Fix: Fixed Universal Education not being properly renamed.
- Change: Made Strikecall explosions less deafening.
- Change: Made Chain Grenades less deafening.
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- Buff: Psycho Helmet stranger moves slightly faster the longer it exists.
- Nerf: Psycho Helmet stranger starting speed lowered.
- Change: Psycho Helmet stranger stops moving when hit.
- Change: The area modifier name will be displayed in the top left for as long as it's active.
- Change: The Blackhole HUD at the top of the screen will now draw beneath the other HUD elements.
- Change: Destinations with modifiers will always be two different modifiers now.
- Change: Statues spawned from Echo Formation and Fragmented Echo will be different the other statues.
- Change: You now see Cursed enemies in the collection. You might need to mouse around a bit to find them, though.
- Change: Made some aesthetic changes to the Picayune suit.
- Change: 'All three owned' will now consider if there is a "Nothing" item there, and proceed to choose one of the upgrades you DO have.
- Change: 'All three owned' will no longer choose upgrades the player hasn't actually chosen before, such as the upgrades they started with.
- Change: Made Umi spawn sound louder.
- Fix: Fixed accidentally 'rounding' element chances after last update.
Hope everyone is having a good day! I've been working on Points Shop stuff lately. Fingers crossed that'll go live soon. What music have you been listening to lately? <3
Added: Gave Elemental suit a unique passive.
Buff: Elemental suit starting cooldown changed from -50% to -20%.
Nerf: Elemental suit all starting elements dropped from 5 to 3.
Change: Modding API updated, you can now enable mods independently with the ini file in the game folder.
Change: The chosen upgrades on the right side HUD will raise and lower if you have so many that it would be normally obscured by the HUD and go offscreen.
Buff: 'Leech Education' has been renamed to 'Universal Education', and now works on Eggcats, Turrets and Daggerfish.
Buff: Flamethrower cooldown, 7.5 > 5.
Buff: Midas Hand damage buff, VERSION * XP_MOD > ((2 * VERSION) + 10) * XP_MOD.
Buff: Funky Carrot cleansehit reduced, 20 > 10.
Buff: Funky Carrot lifetime increased, 10 + VERSION > 20 + VERSION.
Buff: Corrupt Tentacle can attach to more random things.
Buff: Psycho Helmet stranger explosion knockback increased, 1 > 3
Buff: Psycho Helmet stranger explosion damage increased, 50 + VERSION > 75 + VERSION.
Buff: Psycho Helmet stranger movement speed increased, 0.5 > 1.
Change: Psycho Helmet stranger movement scales 50% off projectile speed and 50% off movement speed.
Buff: Psycho Helmet blood cleansehit reduced, 30 > 20.
Buff: Psycho Helmet blood damage increased, 20 > 30.
Buff: Blessed Monkey XP mod increased, 0.05 > 0.1.
Buff: Blastin' Sticks will explode and bounce a second time.
Buff: Reaper Scythe damage increased, VERSION * 2 > (25 + (VERSION * 2)).
Buff: Bee damage increased, VERSION > (5 + (VERSION * 2)).
Nerf: Overheal on the glass suit ticks down 10x faster.
Fix: Beating a run with 0 skills equipped would make the collection display a ??? instead of showing the stat.
Fix: Angel Wings, Demon Horns and Plasma Orb all relied on 'nearest x enemy' code which meant that if there was (for example) 15 enemies and you had 30 of the upgrade, 15 would be applied appropriately and then the other 15 would ALL go on the very last instanced enemy. This has been changed to a 'wrap' that wraps back to the very first enemy and spreads them all out evenly, so now they'd ALL be hit by 2 evenly.
Fix: For some reason the very first dialog that Infected Izu is meant to say when you first find them wasn't ever being said! This whole time. Oopsies. It's been reenabled now, but this is the interaction if anyone was curious:
https://i.imgur.com/xoMVs2K.png
Also, for these next changes, I ran a poll asking if people would prefer if C4 and Shrapnel were more limited but hit harder so they could use it without it inevitably bringing down framerate. People seemed to like the idea, so these are the changes:
Buff: C4 damage increased, 10 + (VERSION) > 40 + (VERSION)
Nerf: C4 explosions count limited to 2 * Version. (So Version 10 can have 20 explosions).
Buff: Shrapnel damage increased, (2 * VERSION) > 25 + (2 * VERSION)
Nerf: Shrapnel count limited to 3 * Version. (So Version 10 can have 30 shards).
I'll be keeping a close eye on the reception to the changes and if you feel they need to be adjusted further, please let me know! Hope everyone has been doing well! <3
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Buff: Elemental suit starting cooldown changed from -50% to -20%.
Nerf: Elemental suit all starting elements dropped from 5 to 3.
Change: Modding API updated, you can now enable mods independently with the ini file in the game folder.
Change: The chosen upgrades on the right side HUD will raise and lower if you have so many that it would be normally obscured by the HUD and go offscreen.
Buff: 'Leech Education' has been renamed to 'Universal Education', and now works on Eggcats, Turrets and Daggerfish.
Buff: Flamethrower cooldown, 7.5 > 5.
Buff: Midas Hand damage buff, VERSION * XP_MOD > ((2 * VERSION) + 10) * XP_MOD.
Buff: Funky Carrot cleansehit reduced, 20 > 10.
Buff: Funky Carrot lifetime increased, 10 + VERSION > 20 + VERSION.
Buff: Corrupt Tentacle can attach to more random things.
Buff: Psycho Helmet stranger explosion knockback increased, 1 > 3
Buff: Psycho Helmet stranger explosion damage increased, 50 + VERSION > 75 + VERSION.
Buff: Psycho Helmet stranger movement speed increased, 0.5 > 1.
Change: Psycho Helmet stranger movement scales 50% off projectile speed and 50% off movement speed.
Buff: Psycho Helmet blood cleansehit reduced, 30 > 20.
Buff: Psycho Helmet blood damage increased, 20 > 30.
Buff: Blessed Monkey XP mod increased, 0.05 > 0.1.
Buff: Blastin' Sticks will explode and bounce a second time.
Buff: Reaper Scythe damage increased, VERSION * 2 > (25 + (VERSION * 2)).
Buff: Bee damage increased, VERSION > (5 + (VERSION * 2)).
Nerf: Overheal on the glass suit ticks down 10x faster.
Fix: Beating a run with 0 skills equipped would make the collection display a ??? instead of showing the stat.
Fix: Angel Wings, Demon Horns and Plasma Orb all relied on 'nearest x enemy' code which meant that if there was (for example) 15 enemies and you had 30 of the upgrade, 15 would be applied appropriately and then the other 15 would ALL go on the very last instanced enemy. This has been changed to a 'wrap' that wraps back to the very first enemy and spreads them all out evenly, so now they'd ALL be hit by 2 evenly.
Fix: For some reason the very first dialog that Infected Izu is meant to say when you first find them wasn't ever being said! This whole time. Oopsies. It's been reenabled now, but this is the interaction if anyone was curious:
https://i.imgur.com/xoMVs2K.png
Also, for these next changes, I ran a poll asking if people would prefer if C4 and Shrapnel were more limited but hit harder so they could use it without it inevitably bringing down framerate. People seemed to like the idea, so these are the changes:
Buff: C4 damage increased, 10 + (VERSION) > 40 + (VERSION)
Nerf: C4 explosions count limited to 2 * Version. (So Version 10 can have 20 explosions).
Buff: Shrapnel damage increased, (2 * VERSION) > 25 + (2 * VERSION)
Nerf: Shrapnel count limited to 3 * Version. (So Version 10 can have 30 shards).
I'll be keeping a close eye on the reception to the changes and if you feel they need to be adjusted further, please let me know! Hope everyone has been doing well! <3
- Change: Doubled the amount of backups the game makes.
- Change: Halo's description is updated.
- Change: Catspeak modding API has been reimplemented and you can now mess with it. I left some examples in the game's folder. Special thanks to Katsaii and TabularElf for creating Catspeak and GMLspeak respectively. Since this is still early, some changes might happen in the coming days that requires you to rewrite your code.
- Change: Made Halo shields regenerate 3x faster after a boss kill.
- Change: Adjusted how 50 Mortality Boss is displayed in the Collection.
- Fix: Battery Saver will now work properly with the reworked Halo.
- Fix: Dodge will now work properly with Dark Matter Overload.
- Fix: Added the option to disable XP canisters again, since it was going to be a part of Antilag but I forgot hehe :)
- Buff: Reaper Scythe applies a tiny amount of shock stun DoT.
- Buff: Reaper Scythe knockback increase, 1 > 3.
- Buff: Strikecall targets will approach the nearest enemy.
- Buff: Base poison damage, 3 > 6.
- Buff: Base fire damage, 20 > 25.
- Buff: Base frost damage, 10 > 15.
- Buff: Base shock damage, 10 > 15.
- Buff: Damage per Fire Lighter, 1 > 2.
- Buff: Damage per Frosty Cone, 1 > 2.
- Buff: Damage per Eel, 1 > 2.
- Buff: Elemental Crystal elemental duration increased from: 1 + (version/50) to 1 + (version/25).
- Buff: Midas Hand damage is multiplied by xp_mod, excluding the bonus xp_mod you get from Overdrive.
- Buff: Walkman projectiles gain a fifth of its current speed per bounce.
- Buff: Made Flamethrower flame hitboxes bigger again.
- Buff: Flamethrower damage increased, 2 * version > 10 + (2 * version);
- Buff: Corrupt Tentacle damage, 10 > 30.
- Buff: Plasma Lamp knockback, 2 > 3.
- Buff: Snow Globe knockback, 0.75 > 1.5.
- Nerf: Corrupt Tentacle can no longer attach to enemies.
- Nerf: Picayune suit no longer gains add_dmg, just the passive stats.
Also, I am considering making some changes to C4 and Shrapnel Shells. (mostly the latter) And I'm interested in getting some community feedback!
- Added: Gave Versatile suit a unique passive.
- Change: Centas can no longer pass through wormholes, due to issues with their bound spinning bullets flying super duper fast. I might fix this later, but for now, consider it a funny quirk about the centas. hehe :)
- Change: Even more themes were added to the 'randomize song' pool.
- Change: After 50 Mortality, even more songs are added to the pool.
- Change: Defense Turrets will now individually randomly choose if they should defend you or if they should shoot the enemy nearest to them. Effectively doing both about 50% of the time.
- Change: In the collection, if you've surpassed 25 Mortality, the newer basic enemy sprites will show.
- Change: Thanks to CryptixDT in the Discord: Optimizations have been made to the Core and how it calculates damage when a high amount of them are equipped.
- Fix: Fixed a bug where flawlessing the Biker wouldn't give you the requirements to see the alternate Beach ending. So if you were going for that ending/achievement, this is the reason why! Sorry for the pain. :(
- Fix: Fixed an issue where the Worm boss would go invisible behind the background if you went far enough from 0,0. ( I hope, tell me if you have this happen again )
Change: 4x distance required for unique pickups to be deleted.
Change: 'Wall' mission will now work on shielded hits as well.
Change: Adjusted how Horns scale with projectile speed.
Change: Horns now cap out at 4x animation speed.
Change: Hitless has been changed to Hits, to show how many times you were hit.
Change: Made it so that some of the Freeplay cheats scale with 0.01 instead of 0.1.
Fix: Fixed a bug where Collection item counts were being updated while playing Freeplay mode.
Fix: Fixed a bug where you couldn't 'true flawless' the Biker.
Fix: Crit Explosions can no longer create other Crit Explosions.
Fix: 'Restore Save' will remember if you've seen the Bad Ending.
Fix: Slime Spikes cap their maximum distance when you get 200 of them.
Fix: Daggerfish will now properly despawn when the player trades the item away.
Fix: Spelling mistakes.
Fix: Save restore will now properly trigger the Bankrupt effects.
Fix: You can now use the gamepad start button to 'unpause' the game.
Buff: Ultrabuster now pierces X enemies.
Buff: Funky Carrot cooldown reduced, 5 * 60 > 4 * 60.
Buff: Funky Carrot cleansehit reduced, 30 > 20.
Buff: Halo now blocks bullets again.
Nerf: Halo reduces damage by half, instead of down to just 1.
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Change: 'Wall' mission will now work on shielded hits as well.
Change: Adjusted how Horns scale with projectile speed.
Change: Horns now cap out at 4x animation speed.
Change: Hitless has been changed to Hits, to show how many times you were hit.
Change: Made it so that some of the Freeplay cheats scale with 0.01 instead of 0.1.
Fix: Fixed a bug where Collection item counts were being updated while playing Freeplay mode.
Fix: Fixed a bug where you couldn't 'true flawless' the Biker.
Fix: Crit Explosions can no longer create other Crit Explosions.
Fix: 'Restore Save' will remember if you've seen the Bad Ending.
Fix: Slime Spikes cap their maximum distance when you get 200 of them.
Fix: Daggerfish will now properly despawn when the player trades the item away.
Fix: Spelling mistakes.
Fix: Save restore will now properly trigger the Bankrupt effects.
Fix: You can now use the gamepad start button to 'unpause' the game.
Buff: Ultrabuster now pierces X enemies.
Buff: Funky Carrot cooldown reduced, 5 * 60 > 4 * 60.
Buff: Funky Carrot cleansehit reduced, 30 > 20.
Buff: Halo now blocks bullets again.
Nerf: Halo reduces damage by half, instead of down to just 1.
- Fix: Found the reason the voice lines weren't playing. Whoopsies!
- Fix: Fixed 'damange' spelling mistake.
- Fix: Statue of Metamorphose now properly applies Curse.
- Change: Made it more obvious you need to click ON the arrows to adjust Overdrive.
- Change: Monthlies and Dailies are unlocked by default now.
- Change: The Chainsword will no longer 'automatically' unlock if you owned the associated achievement prior to the update. I wanted there to be a grace period where the majority of players could get it as soon as they booted it, but now that people are resetting their games, they're automatically being given the weapon no matter what - If you missed your chance to get the weapon AND you have the achievement already done, just go to the Credits screen and click the button that says 'Restore Save' and it will update your save with all rewards associated with the achievements you've unlocked.
- Change: Moved dialog sprites back to Default texture page to hopefully fix the freezes and boss voices being cut off.
- Change: Gave a notification saying Freeplay mode will disable progression.
- Buff: Scythe damage increased, 1 * Version > 2 * Version.
- Nerf: Cigar immunity frames, 20 * Version > 10 * Version.
- Fix: Umi kills weren't saving to the collection.
- Fix: Eludes will now check to see if they're within a certain range before dodging, to stop them running away forever if they're getting chased by Fireworks.
- Change: Decreased the spawn-weight of Snipers, Warpers, Exploders and Droids.
- Change: Higher antilag levels increases XP Cans 'xp sucking' size.
- Change: Sentry 'circle' now has a maximum range, to avoid situations where there are so many that they are so far away that they are no longer viable.
Current Release
Build 17998636
Uploaded Nov 08, 2026
System Requirements
OS
Windows 10
CPU
Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE2 capable
RAM
N/A
GPU
N/A
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run PICAYUNEDREAMS.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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