Purple Ray Studio has shared a new gameplay trailer for Koshmar: The Last Reverie, its upcoming narrative-driven action-adventure game for PC and consoles. The trailer debuted during the Women-Led Games Showcase, a Community Spotlight event featured as part of Summer Game Fest 2026.
Inspired by Alice: Madness Returns, Koshmar: The Last Reverie follows Violet, a lucid dreamer trapped between two realities as a mysterious sleeping plague consumes the world around her.
Violet Faces Dreams, Nightmares, and Madness
Koshmar: The Last Reverie places player choice at the center of Violet’s mental state.
As Violet explores the waking world and dreamworld, decisions can push her toward comforting delusions or drag her deeper into madness. The new trailer ends with a first look at Violet fully lost to that madness, teasing how far the game’s psychological horror elements may go.
The trailer is narrated by Purple Ray Studio Co-Founder and Creative Director Kornelia Błażyńska, whose leadership was also highlighted through the Women-Led Games Showcase.
A Retrofuturistic World Inspired by 19th-Century Central Europe
The game takes place in an original retrofuturistic setting shaped by gothic and steampunk influences.
Purple Ray Studio describes the world as inspired by 19th-century Central Europe, with hand-painted visuals that move between surreal dreamscapes and darker nightmare locations.
Players will explore both realities while solving puzzles, platforming through strange environments, and uncovering the source of the sleeping plague.
Fast Combat With Dream and Nightmare Styles
Koshmar: The Last Reverie blends action-adventure combat with roguelite mechanics and RPG elements.
Violet can unlock abilities, upgrades, and skills that support different combat styles. Players can lean into dream-inspired or nightmare-inspired approaches, with those choices affecting both combat and the real world.
The game will also feature multiple endings shaped by player decisions and other variable factors.
Nightmare Rifts Add Replayable Challenges
Purple Ray Studio also highlighted Nightmare Rifts, replayable roguelite encounters that can affect Violet’s mental state.
These rifts give players additional challenges outside the main path and appear tied to the game’s broader systems around sanity, power, and consequence.
Koshmar: The Last Reverie is currently in active development for PC and consoles. A release window has not yet been announced.
