Underplayed Gems

Nefarious Dreams (2022)

Nefarious Dreams cover
Platforms
Nintendo Entertainment System
Genres
Platform
Main story
about 12 hours
Completionist
about 2.1 hours
Where to get it
Website

How it feels

Mario explores 25 semi-linear levels with fresh graphics and enemy behavior in this polished NES romhack.

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About

Nefarious Dreams is a game that has Mario navigating a brand-new semi-linear set of 25 levels, boasting new graphics, enemy behaviour and environments plus some minor audio changes. It’s sure to keep both inexperienced and well-versed Mario players engaged as they try to puzzle out the path to the ending and find every secret level. Oh yeah… and Mario goes to space. That is pretty cool.

Screenshots

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