Visions: Our review of this game of dreams and nightmares

n turn, a player performs 2 steps:

1. Play a card

The player chooses a card from their hand to perform one of the following actions.

A. Starting a new dream

The player places a card in front of them to begin a new dream line. Each player can create a maximum of two dreams during the game.

B. Pursuing a dream

To add a card to an existing dream, it must share:

• either the same category;
• either the same environment;

with the last card of the dream in question.

C. Playing out a nightmare

If no card can be played normally or simply by strategic choice, the player can place a card face down as a nightmare.

Effects:

• He steals a card at random from an opponent;
• This opponent immediately draws another card.

The nightmare then acts as a joker: any card can follow.

Reflections

Reflections are triggered when a played card matches the one located exactly opposite it in the player’s other dream.

Each correspondence:

• moves the Reflet cube forward;
• adds an additional card in the river.

Two types of correspondence exist:

• same category;
• same environment.

An identical card can therefore trigger two Reflections at once.

If a player reaches the “Wake-up” space, they immediately win the game.

The Echoes

An Echo occurs when a player plays a card that is exactly the same as a card already present in the same dream.

In this case :

• he immediately plays another card;
• Several Echoes can be linked together.

2. Complete your hand

At the end of their turn, the player draws cards from the river until they have 3 cards in hand.

The river is only filled to 5 cards when it is completely empty… unless Reflections add cards in the meantime.

End of game and score

The game ends:

• when a player reaches the Wake-up space;
• or when there are no more cards in the draw pile and the river.

The final score is calculated separately for each of the two dreams: Number of cards from the most frequent environment x Number of cards from the most frequent category

Then we add the points earned on the Reflet track.