D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die – Xbox One, PC – 2014
D4 is Swery’s most recent title to release before he went on a hiatus from gaming, and boy is it one heck of an experience. This Telltale-like experience follows David Young, a private investigator whose wife was murdered. Somehow the trauma of the event has stopped him from recollecting how it happened, but has given him the unique ability to travel through time when he comes into contact with certain objects pertaining to his wife. Because of this, the D4 in the game’s title refers not only to the subtitle, but to the 4th dimension as well.
D4 contains an absolutely absurd plot with even more absurd characters like the mysterious girl that acts like a cat who lives in David’s apartment, or the muscle-bound flight attendant Duncan that looks and acts more like a wrestler. Silliness is the name of the game with D4, and the story certainly doesn’t play out in any typical or expected ways. Controls can be an issue in the game, and there’s an absurd hunger mini game that you have to contend with at times, but it has managed to build quite a cult following. It’s certainly an experience that you could only get from the mind of Swery 65.
D4 was originally intended to be an episodic series released on Xbox One, but we only received the prologue and first two episodes that made up season one. Unfortunately, as a result of health issues Swery left Access Games in October 2016, and announced that further episodes of the series would not be released.
