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Dreii – Puzzle Game Review
Dreii is a Puzzle/Entertainment/Adventure game from Etter Studio GmbH, first launched in 29th October 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 28+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dreii Stand Out
Experience the mesmerizing world of Dreii, the award-winning collaborative physics conundrum.
"It’s the only iPad game to ever make me consider my relationship with humanity." — wired.com
"Coolest puzzle game ever!" — PewDiePie
Dreii is a puzzling game about skill, logic and friendship. It subtly connects players in real-time across the world, to help one another in a battle against gravity.
The mission is simple. But once again, things get in the way… Explosives, thunderstorms, completely incompetent colleagues. Oh, and did we mention gravity?
• Play with people across the world
• Master 48 fantastic levels
• Speak in 19 different languages
• Beautifully animated characters
• Real-time physics and 3D rendering
• Beautiful sound design
Awards
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• European Design Award
• IGF Excellence in Visual Art Nominee
• IndieCade Finalist
• Swiss Game Selection
• FWA Mobile Award
• Swiss Game Award
• FWA Site of the Day
• SXSW Gaming Award Selection
• Sónar Festival Selection
• Cinekid Runner-Up
• Featured by Apple as "Best New Game"
Features
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Languages: Drei features an universal communication tool which allows to speak to other players, from wherever they are. Drei supports 19 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss-German and Turkish.
Optimized: Dreii plays beautifully on the iPad and iPhone. From the beginning it was engineered and optimized for Apple's tablet, taking advantage of the intuitive touch controls, the pretty display, and the possibility to use the screen in landscape and portrait mode.
Sound: One of the best thing about Drei is how it sounds. Each character has its very own instrument. And as the characters work together they form Drei's unique universal orchestra, creating their very own musical landscape, inspired by archaic instruments and ancient melodies. All instruments were performed and recorded live with some of Switzerland's finest musicians.
Uber Swiss Design: Drei is designed to be as universal as possible. However, in a strange way it's also very Swiss, where it was made. Clean typography, minimalism with attention to detail. It's Swiss Design heritage, we can't deny it.
Technical Excellence: Even though it's not visible, it's the technical stuff too that makes this game special. Drei is the first real-time multiplayer iPad game with advanced physics and 3D rendering, as far as we know, taking mobile gaming to the next level.
Notice
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Dreii connects to the internet, if available. Charges may apply if this happens over your mobile network connection.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dreii is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd February 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• Cross Platform Play
• New Levels
• Faster Physics
• New Character
• New Level Map
• Dynamic Camera System
• New Sounds
Download & Availability
Dreii 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:
Now every day that you get a whole new physics puzzler experience. This one is wildly imaginative and perfectly challenging.
We loved this game! We played all the way through some years ago. Tried to play with our friend but multiplayer appears to be completely broken. The worlds show no one playing even though hes sitting right next to us, on the same WiFi, connected to the internet. Its a real shame.
We absolutely adore and love this game, however, ever since a most recent update (a couple years ago) we have not seen a single other player on the multiplayer… It really upsets us because we always loved working with completely anonymous people that worked with us and despite so little communication we could know whether someone was agreeing, trying to figure out what you mean, or disagreeing and feeling that their way is better. The teamwork in this game was amazing, but doing everything alone is not only more difficult, but quite boring… We know it's several years after it stopped working but we really, really hope you guys can update and fix it, please.
Whoever made this game is genius.
We love this game, great puzzles and lots of fun especially the multiplayer but the new update has no players to help us with levels it may be just a people have this game nowadays or its just people get sorted around in their own languages so please put all people in three different servers so it does not get to laggy and just translate the Spanish to English Swedish to Japanese that simple. So please fix.
OMG we LOVE THE NEW UPDATE!! We used to get annoyed how you were a weird yellow blob but people saw you differently, but we love how now you are your own person! BUT a good idea- you should be able to make your own character! Like, you would choose a model (like, octopus guy and stuff) and then colors! We hope you see this.
One of our favorite things about this game was the multiplayer, but it seems to not work. Is it a glitch, or are people just not playing this game that much anymore? Please fix it if it's a glitch.
It's fun, has puzzling levels, some are timed, and some you have to work together or it won't work. It's peaceful yet frustrating. Sometimes other players will make you laugh or just plain out disagree with what you your doing. Our only problem is, is that we beat it in 2 days. It needs more levels. But other that it's a cute great game to play when your bored.
The art is amazing and the idea of the game is great, but we never have any players connected to us! Is it the lack of players on the game or.
It won't let us do the multiplayer level!! Everytime we go to it it doesn't even join other people to us. We're very upset we payed 4 dollars for this ! >:(.
What was the point of the update? It just made the app worse and really bad controlling. Physics not sure if changed got horrible. Please make an option to revert to old.
This game should be free or at the most $0.99. It's just boring. Or maybe it's the fact you can only say "He he" to people. And if there are no people you can't even solve the puzzles. And the "art" is also boring to stare at. If you want this game, we suggest you wait until it updates to a better thing.
Pewdiepie played this game so we thought we would try it out it is so cool they did a really good job making it it never crashes that is awesome we love this game.
Pewdiepie played this game and we wanted to try it too. It's $4 but it's definitely worth it! We love this game.
This is an absolute flawless game. Only thing is, every time we play with other players they appear to look the same. And DON'T MAKE THE CUSTOMIZES IAPS.
First off, this is not a kids game haha. THIS GAME IS AMAZINGLY UNIQUE! A multiplayer puzzle game where no one can talk… Anyway we really really enjoyed it! It makes us feel happy that we can help others beat levels too! ^_^.
If PewDiePie says it's the coolest game ever then obviously there is no doubt that's it's the best game ever. 10/10 and a nice Brofist for the coolest puzzle game ever.
But in the levels that need a another player it keeps saying connection error.Please fix it.
Fantastic game, we want to play more so please add more levels.
Who else is here because of Pewdiepie and wanted to check it out.
Best game we've ever played!!! It deserves every star! The graphics are great and the idea is amazing! Multiplayer is fun and free of squeakers with the limited chat! 5*s.
We love this game so much and we suggest buying it but we can't do multiplayer because it says "connection error" please help.
We rarely write reviews but we decided to spend our time on this because this app is great! For people who are curious about this app we need to tell you this is worth the money!! We love how there isn't free chat because that would give away the answers to the puzzles and make them too easy. It is fun knowing there is someone else controlling the other characters! One thing we would like there to be is a yes and no inside of the chat buttons. Otherwise this game is great and You should add more levels to keep the game going on! Nice and unique like all of your other creations. Keep it up.
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This game is just so amazing and smart, it shows how we can understand each other without having to use words, there may be little connection problems, but we're addicted.
This game is amazing up to the point of multiplayer and working together with a stranger. But add a few words or voice chat like yes and no to show how level works just 1 promblem it every so often loses connection for no apparent reason other wise perfect use 4.00 for us.
Beautiful sounds and effects! The simplicity of the game is what makes it so hard. But we love how you have the anonymous interactions with people and how you build up the conversation with single words. Blimey was a great one. And you didn't get the word you needed the most until the end. Great game! Hope you make more games.
This is the best game that we ever play.
Absolutely love this game; however, we're having connection issues after iOS 8.3 update. Perhaps it's not compatible with 8.3 because Drei ran flawlessly for two days, then we updated our iPad, now we can't get past level 1 without the connection crapping out on us. Internet isn't the issue because all of our other apps that need internet are working. We know ya'll are working on a new version but people are still paying for this one and it's not working, it needs to be updated. C'mon guys, we PAID FOR IT.. We never buy apps for this reason… Really awesome puzzle game though. Beat it twice already. Guess we reached our limit and now it doesn't wanna work. /;:.
We love Drei. It is a fun puzzle game but with only one exception. We are playing on wifi, but we are not encountering anyone online and we keep getting a connection error. Please fix that. Even though we're on wifi it says there is a connection error.
Awesome game, the coop makes most things a lot easier it is awesome and deserves 5 stars.
We rarely write reviews. So, if we're doing it today it's a sign that there's something here to check out. This game is brilliant. What we love is how it's like this big social experiment in complete simplicity. You are trying to build a tower with other people around the world and the catch is that not only do you have to figure out what is going on, but you have very little language to communicate with the others. It's fun to see the personalities of each person as they fight or work together, get frustrated, take forever to figure out the problem. That we're working with real people but we don't have to sign into Facebook or some other nonsense is awesome. We love this game. More.
From the simplistic art style to the sometimes challenging puzzles, this game is amazing. We love having a connection with someone who could be anywhere in the world and working together to solve a puzzle (despite how frustrating it can be sometimes). The sound effects are lovely, the controls are easy enough, and the idea of working as a team with a complete stranger really ties it all together. Beautiful.
Anyone here cause of Pewdiepie.
This game is truly amazing and fun. The collaboration is superb especially for people who struggle with puzzle games. The overall experience is a seamless game that feels really well thought out and perfectly executed. 10/10 bananas.
We love it but how do you change your person.
Lots of fun but it is a little glitchy. Love the design, spare like Monument Valley. Eager to figure out more about the main character as the game progresses. Perfect for six-year olds like us! :) Andrew.
We LOVED Monument Valley and was looking for another game play experience that was just as enjoyable. Somehow we stumbled across this little gem of a game. Its got puzzles like Monument Valley but is totally different. It also has the added component of cooperative game play, something we dont recall ever running across before. Its really fun working with another person to solve the puzzle. This game really deserves to get more recognized because its freaking amazing! We dont know why it says 6-8, this is more adult orientated.
This game has made it into our top 3 apps of all time. Such an amazing experience. And the collaboration element is incredibly unique, our favorite part actually. We highly recommend. And DEVS, make more levels! They are better when they require more thought, rather than trying to race the wind. But we'll take anything. It's all awesome.
We really hope more levels are added regularly. This is a lot of fun but we beat the current 48 in about half an hour? Price seems steep for the current content.
We just got this game and it's fun so far but the wifi is saying there is no connection but we're connected to wifi.. Don't know the problem but please fix because we would love to do multiplayer! Other than that, good game so far.
If there is a way to change charahcters tell us.
We love this game about the team work and limited talking because people can say bad things. The graphics are amazing but need more update for more levels. We're really enjoying play this gameLOVE IT!!!!! Btw, we download this after watching Pewdiepie.
Drei is a very amusing game to play to pass the time but we wish we could play multiplayer on our wifi network. We keep getting the no wifi sign on the bottom of our screen when we have 3 full bars of wifi and it won't work but on another wifi we have 1-2 bars and it works just fine. Please help. We can't play it and it's really annoying. Thanks~ Krys.
Saw Pewds play this and bought it.. Awesome, love the game but could you please do more levels.
Stop forcing us to be some dumb looking jellyfish, we'de like some sort of character selection to be implemented.
This game is so awesome! We started playing because we saw it on Pewdiepie's YouTube account and thought, why not? Unfortunately we're having problems with the multiplayer function of the game. Isn't that the whole point? It's super addicting though, just please fix it and it'll be good to go.
We would enjoy the option to choose our character. We have downloaded and removed the app repeatedly to get the character we desire. Other than this HIGHLY annoying factor, it has smooth gameplay and uniqueness when it comes to co-op gameplay.
It's a good game and it's fun except you should be able to type what you want to say with your partners because sometimes it's super frustrating cause they don't understand what you want to do. Also you should be able to turn off the music but there are no settings in this game. Kinda mad that we paid like 5 bucks but it's still kinda fun.
We love this game SO much, beautiful designs and limited speech, putting teamwork skills to the test. We like that it doesn't give custom speech, 'cause there are too many harsh people out there in this world, and there are kids playing this! And if we were to just to tell others how to solve it, it would be too easy, am we right? It game worked perfectly for a couple days, then the game decided it would be fun if it were to never connect to the Internet again. EVER. We honestly thought that playing with others was the coolest, and funnest part, and that was stripped away too fast. Please fix! And, maybe change the colours for the dark blue, white, black, and orange one. The colours are unpleasing to look at all together, maybe change the Orange to a light blue. Thanks.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.0
- Size: 136.75 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Etter Studio GmbH
Last updated: 2nd February 2016 | Genre: Puzzle, Entertainment | Developer: Etter Studio GmbH