-40% Positive · 49 reviews
84% positive (41 / 49)
Be a Butterfly in this beautiful and relaxing experimental game with no goals or enemies: Just fly around! Based on a Zen tale.
Released
April 4, 2022
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Platforms
Windows
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Last sync
October 8, 2026
Get comfortable, put your headphones and dive into a butterfly's dream
A Butterfly's Dream is an experience to contemplate and relax. There are no enemies, there are no goals, no rush. Just fly around, take some pics and enjoy a beautiful stylized world.
Be a butterfly in a living and stylized world.
Every place you look at could be a beautiful and calm picture.
Fly through the sky, into the woods, over the waters, land on trees and rocks.
Take pictures of landscapes and wildlife in a living world. If the game is too boring for you, try to photograph all the hidden stuff! There are over 100.
Find Master Chuang Tzu and meditate about the nature of reality.
The Zen Koan Series
A Butterfly's Dream is based on a Zen Koan about Master Chuang Tzu, a great Taoist philosopher. A Koan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement which is used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and to practice or test a student's progress in Zen.
About Us
The Philosophical School of Games is a small studio from Brazil. We aim to create beautiful, relaxing and immersive little experiences that can touch the mind and soul of players. From Religion to Philosophy and beyond, follow us and check our games.
