Last updated on November 11th, 2025 at 08:20 pm
Back to Bed – Adventure Game Review
Back to Bed is a Adventure/Puzzle/Entertainment game from Usman Musaddiq, first launched in 28th August 2014.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 195+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Back to Bed Stand Out
In Back To Bed you will guide Bob, a sleepwalking, unlucky narcoleptic, that has a habit of falling asleep at his boring office job. Take control of Subob, a creature of Bobs subconsciousness. Move apples and fish to guide Bob back to bed. Go through portals, and walk on vertical walls to complete different levels that escalade in difficulty as you progress.
Explore the world of Bobs subconsciousness, which is a hand-drawn artistic dream world, that represents the land of Bobs dreams.
The game includes a nightmare mode for hardcore puzzle solvers – you think you got what it takes?
DOWNLOAD now and help Bob BACK TO BED! But be careful! The eyes are watching you ”scary smiley”
No ads and no in-app purchases.
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"The lines are blurred between art and game. If you feel like being caught between worlds, this is the game to take the trip with." – Touch Arcade
“Back to Bed manages to simultaneously be predictable and surprising, sleepy and lively, scary and comforting—just like any good piece of Surrealist art.” – Killscreen
“Back to Bed is what happens when you let Dali, Escher, and Magritte develop a game.” – PowerUpGaming.co.uk
“What you see isn’t always what it seems, and the moments that use these ploys are some of the best Back to Bed has to offer. It’s mindbending and an utter delight.” – Twinfinite
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Awards & Nominations:
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IGF Student Showcase Winner 2013
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Dutch Game Awards 2012: Guts & Glory Award
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Unity Awards 2012: Best Student Project – Nominee
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Nordic Game Indie Night 2012: Finalist
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Casual Connect Europe 2014: Best Console – Nominee
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Features:
• Unique surreal and artistic game universe: A strange but beautiful dream universe that mixes elements from the real world and the world of dreams to create something unique, surreal and sometimes a bit scary.
• Isometric puzzle levels: Navigate detailed 3D puzzles that defy the laws of physics, wherein the player must manipulate the strange environment to create a safe path Bob and avoid the dangers of the puzzle.
• Two characters as one: Play as the embodied subconsciousness, in the form of a small guardian creature, trying to save its own sleepwalking body from dangers of the dream world.
• Picturesque visual style: Discover the feeling of playing in a piece of art set in a digital frame. A visual style inspired by hand-painted techniques, surreal art and impossible shapes.
• Nightmare mode: Unlock a more challenging version of the game, made for those who truly want to test their puzzle solving skills and enjoy thinking many steps ahead, or who are just too stubborn to give up.
• MFI Controller Supported
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Privacy Policy:
Back to Bed sends automated bug reports, device information, gameplay and location data. The information sent does not include personal or private information nor can it be used to reveal the identity of a player. The purpose of the data is to discover bugs and improve the experience of Back to Bed on the most common devices. All information is strictly for internal use and will not be provided to any third party.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Back to Bed is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th January 2022
Recent improvements include:
- Minor Bug Fixes
Download & Availability
Back to Bed is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We paid $3 thinking this would be ad free, or at least have an option for no ads, but no. Every other screen is an ad and it takes 20-30 seconds to get past them. This is a scam, dont waste your time or money.
Its a good mind bumbler but Im only on part one.
Unique style which is like a combination of Dali, Magritte, and David Lynch. This game deserves more credit than it gets. Beat the main game and now playing the nightmare mode. Great job devs.
We think this has potential but we wish we hadnt paid for it. The game is glitchy, keeps stuttering when you play. The sounds keeps speeding up and slowing down like a bad cassette tape. The dog doesnt react. Smoothly when you try to move him. Seems like there is a slight delay in the controls. Can we have our money back, please.
Every time we finish a level, it stays stuck on the final screen of bob sleeping with dream on. Theres no way to get to the menu or the next level!? We have to close the app and reopen it every time we finish a level.
The game is visually attractive but the controls are unresponsive. We bring the dog next to it and we keep touching the apple over and over, then we touch the dog, then we touch the ground where he is standing, then we touch screen around, and most of the time nothing happens. On the occasion that it does, the guy passed us by already. Too frustrating to bother with. Also, the elongated screen images show as if the game was optimized for the iPhone X. It is not. It takes up only a small portion of the screen. Too bad, because the game is pretty to look at. It looks like the artwork is better fitted for the more squarish proportions of the iPad. The bigger screen may make a difference in controls, too. But for the iPhone, we would not recommend it.
Seems like the same games are always available on the App Store. It’s nice to have something that we all haven’t seen or played.
We love this game. However, we are not a game fanatic. We got this as a time waster, so we’re not stuck watching Netflix all the time. We really like this in it’s simplicity and complexity. The controls are used by the Apple TV remote, but there’s a catch. You have to re-adjust your habits of the Apple remote once you figure out how to use it. We’re almost finished with this and could play it many times. There are cute little ‘challenges’ and ‘points/rewards’ hidden in the preferences of the game. If you like crosswords or those kind of simple games, this is a great animate version of a brain teaser.
It’s so different, feels like a cult game like Limbo, so weird and enjoyable.
AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL game!!! We love this game so much! From the backwards talking to the fish and the apple, it is so fun to play these beautifully made puzzles that often defy the laws of geometry. Pick the swipe control, NOT the joystick control. Works fine, not sure why there are so many complaints. Why this game has received so many one-stars we will never know. Although it lags on most phones below the iPhone 6 (in our experience), it is still highly playable and very fun.
This game is super fun and always fun to play when you are bored. This game can get frustrating though. You should get this game, is is a really fun sit around game.
Anyone who is playing this without a MFI gamepad is missing 90% of the fun that this game has to offer. Great game … Hard to play via touch screen.
Tiresome, boring, hard controlls blah blah blah. When it’s summer break and we have our usual leisure time, we downlod a large ammount of games. We remember downloading this game months ago and we were very intrigued and entertained. We had no difficulty with the controls. If you think this game is boring then these games aren’t just your cup of tea. And if you’re having difficulty with the controls then that’s on you. This game is definitely not a best of the year 5/5 star game, but it’s definitely a great game.
There isn’t any music in the game somehow. It’s really odd to play without music. Other sound effects work but not the music. We hope it’s not us. Other than that we love the game (:.
We love the concept, look, and feel of the game. We play on an iPhone 6 and don’t have any control of frame-rate issues. Keep up the good work.
Ugly controls, you’ll better make 3d platformer without time puzlles.
With the speed of character and the control, we think it very bad. We can not control the moves of character so can not play well.
We think this game has great potential; however, like it has been said already, the controls need fixing before this game is truly enjoyable. We think this game would be perfectly suited for a tap to walk interface. Adding such should be a fairly straightforward process. When a player taps on the screen the game places a temporary marker and the character follows a move-to-marker-while-avoiding-objects instruction. Right now the game is somewhat playable but with an intuitive control scheme, it could be quite enjoyable as well.
This came could be really fun, but atrocious controls make it almost unplayable. Too bad.
This game would have more value if the controls actually worked when you tapped the screen. We’ve never played a game where the controls flat out didn’t work. We would avoid until this is fixed.
Nice concept, but since time is of the essence; it is terribly frustrating with wonky interface.
We really didn’t enjoy the handful of levels we played of this game. Controls are terribly clunky and unmanageable. You have essentially d-pad controls but have to move your avatar diagonally, which resulted in us mostly being unable to get the green monster to position itself where we needed it. This is unacceptable in a real-time puzzle game. We also felt the game realy didn’t have anything going for it in terms of design. A guy walks in straight lines and turns right when he hits a wall. Meanwhile, you quickly try to drop giant green apples in front of him to get hit to turn where you want… Very bland. We’re sure the later parts of the game will add a few more minor mechanics, but we don’t think the game will be worth finishing for us.
At first, it’s a neat premise. The game is simple in controls, but very challenging in strategic thinking. We would recommend someone play the first 10 levels. It gets harder as you progress, but what’s missing is a cool factor. Other than some entertaining cutscenes, there’s not much to look forward to.
This will be a really great game if the developer can stick with it. Wonderful everything, except the controls. Get a kid to show you what you need :).
We like the concept and the early levels can be completed with only minor difficulty, but the poorly designed controls make the game as a whole largely unplayable.
Developers please update to iOS11 or newer.
The concept of this game is good us has potential. BUT as it is now it has horrible, clunky controls making movement difficult. It’s a total waste of money. We wouldn’t play it even if it was free.
Movement is tricky and annoying, and the sounds will drive you crazy! Unlike some other games it is hard to move the dog where you want him to go. It’s like trying to steer an airplane instead of a car. The dog keeps veering off in the wrong direction. The need for speed can be a fun challenge, but hurrying while steering like a drunkard is not fun. (we have played on an iPad and Apple TV, which is worse.) If that wasn’t bad enough imagine being entertained by snoring, and falling screams! The puzzles are fun, and the surreal landscape is entertaining, so hey! Fix the annoyances and the game will be more fun! Please.
Controls are bad, making gameplay not fun, no fun, nope.
Tiresome, boring, dull, repetitive. And lousy controls. You play just because you want to be done with it. A real bomb. With so many great games out there in the app store, why do they promote loser apps like this one.
We really wanted to love this game. The art is gorgeous but the controls are too horrible to bother with getting beyond the first level.
Seriously bad controls. Delete.
This could a great and beautiful game, if it wasn’t destroyed by its absolutely unusable controls. Fix them and we’ll gladly come back and try again.
We’re playing on an ipad mini 3 but the game runs so slowly and with a horrible framerate to the point where it is no longer playable. Please fix this. We feel horribly cheated out of our money.
We became so addicted to this game. We love puzzle games that are harder than average and this was very satisfying. We didn’t have any issues except that we wish there were more levels! It helped us unwind after work with the soothing music. It’s very visually beautiful as well. Great game.
Such a beautiful game.. Really. The graphics are great and we really loved how everything looked. We finished the game pretty quickly though but besides that, it was challenging but extremely fun.
We’ve had no problems with this game and we love it! It’s very different and creative and quite addicting! It’s the best app we’ve seen in a long time.
Probably one of the best apps we’ve played. Entertaining, challenging, and creative. People who say the game is hard to control don’t get that it’s part of the fun! We’ve managed to pass almost every level with almost no problems. If you’re frustrated because you can’t move fast enough it’s because you haven’t figured it out or gotten the hang of the game. Overall it’s probably one of the better apps we’ve seen as app of the week.
The game is very fun, however the controls are choppy and unpredictable.
This game is a lot of fun! We like every thing about it… But it is really hard to control. You should be able to tap on an apple to pick it up, but on ours you always have to be to the left of it. To put the apple down it won’t work unless you are in just the right spot (yes, when the square is lit up where you want it). This makes the gameplay difficult because often times you are trying to hurry to keep ahead of Bob. If these issues were fixed this game would be five stars.
This game is awesome and the graphics are beautifully designed. Just a couple of problems, game controls are very unbearable and very hard to use. Aside from that, there is a glitch on level 2 that does not allow you to pass it. Please fix and you can have the credit you deserve.
How do we get charged then? We know we didnt pay for it so how did we get charged for it? We dont like this game one bit, its hard to use and difficult to control. We wouldnt mind the hidden $2.99 but it works like a free app. No thanks. Thank you, come again. And Id like our money back we wasnt even supposed to pay in the fist place.
This game is sorta fun but whenever we try to pick up an apple it wont let us so then he falls off the edge.
Beautiful look. Horrible and frustrating controls. Deleted.
Can’t get passed lvl 2 as soon as he goes to sleep it plays a song and just sits there with no May of moving forward.
Great game. Love that there is no in app purchases that prevents you from playing.
We don’t normally write reviews, but this game is being given a very unfair representation. It runs much better on iPhone 6 and is a fairly graphic intensive experience so that makes a lot of sense that they would want to get as much out of the available hardware. Loved the game and Story. Beautiful art style, please give it a fair try.
An awesome and entertaining game for those who love art, dreams, surrealism and details. We truly dig every single dream and thou we have not gotten to the nightmares yet, we’re sure we’ll enjoy as much.
Beautiful art work, interesting puzzler gameplay, and the entire emphasis on the dream world makes this the most immaculate title we have ever played on IOS. Honestly the people complaining about long load times must be playing on much older devices as we’ve never had a slow down on our iPad mini 2. And controls will be fixed through patches. And to top the cake the game was made free (maybe only for a limited time?) No ads. It truly turned the game into a very pure experience that many will enjoy.
Absolutely spectacular game with a very surreal dark atmosphere. People on iOS are ungrateful and don’t realize what they have.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.6
- Size: 344.27 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Usman Musaddiq
Last updated: 11th January 2022 | Genre: Adventure, Puzzle | Developer: Usman Musaddiq