About

Mbombo: Dream Echoes (2024) is a video game conceptualised by artist Sondi that explores the radical potential of rest and dreaming as forms of resistance. Set in an unfolding, vibrant dreamscape the game raises profound questions about the potentiality of the dreamscape as a collective refuge. What becomes possible when we rest? What do our dreams unravel?

A figure in a pastel puffer suit is called forth to meander across chimerical plains and revel in the rosebud sweetness of each inhale, the soaring wings of exhale. 

Mbombo: Dream Echoes attempts to render Black bodies beyond extraction— with play, pleasure and discovery as newly forged tools of liberation. Each experience, each encounter sheds a layer, heals a wound and in so doing reveals wisdom and ways of knowing that were once obscured and repressed in the name of capitalism, colonialism and slavery.

Mbombo: Dream Echoes reaches beyond bloodthirsty battles for glory in favor of idle wandering, playful curiosity and deep connection, abandoning traditional video game conventions of extraction, accumulation, and productivity in exchange for reward. In the tradition of visionary fiction, Sondi offers a way to practice the future; one that reclaims stolen imaginations, normalizes slow wanderings, and encourages a probing of our dreamspaces as otherwise sites of possibility. 

Read more about the work here 

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Install Instructions

🪟 Windows 

Unzip file → Open Folder → Double Click on Mbombo - Dream Echoes to open the application → extract all files → Double Click again on the application → trust the app ;) & PLAY

⚠  This game was built with Unreal Engine. You might be prompted to download a few prerequisite packages when opening the app for the first time

🍎 Mac

The Mac version will be released soon

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Controls 

🎧🎧 Use headphones for a better gaming experience 🎧🎧

This is a short game/story/interactive artwork. The game takes about 35+ minutes to play. There are no saving options. If you want to see the end of the game you have to commit your time & take a moment to rest ☁☁