Dream Harvest

Dream Harvest was an independent British game development studio founded in April 2013 and based in Brighton, England. Its work combined narrative worldbuilding with strategic, systems-driven gameplay, particularly in cyberpunk settings. The studio developed games and prototypes spanning interactive fiction, real-time strategy and tactical role-playing, with capabilities in game design, programming and audio production.

A central thread in its work was the relationship between technology, human choices and complex systems. Its early project, Failure, began as an experimental real-time strategy prototype conceived during a game jam. Players acted as indirect network controllers rather than directly micromanaging individual units. After a cancelled Kickstarter campaign in March 2016, the studio substantially revised the concept and expanded its mechanics and fiction into NeuroSlicers.

NeuroSlicers brought together competitive and cooperative strategy, macro-focused real-time gameplay, deck-building and an evolving campaign. The project underwent alpha and early-access playtests during 2020–2022, allowing players to encounter the developing game before a finished release.

Expanding a shared fictional world

Dream Harvest subsequently developed and self-published NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy, a narrative game set within the broader NeuroSlicers universe. Released on 4 May 2023 for PC and Nintendo Switch, it cast players as an emerging artificial intelligence managing the post-cyberpunk city of Catena. Its branching story cards presented moral, political and socioeconomic decisions, using a choice-driven format inspired by games such as Reigns. The project extended the studio's fictional setting through city management and interactive storytelling rather than the real-time strategy format of its predecessor.

Following NeuroNet, Dream Harvest prototyped a grimdark Victorian tactical role-playing game combining turn-based strategy with horror elements. Across its projects, the studio's development capabilities included Unreal Engine and Unity, alongside sound design and voice direction.

Dream Harvest began a voluntary wind-down in 2025. Its operating company was formally dissolved on 9 September 2025, ending the studio's development operations.