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Disney Dreamlight Valley is a life simulation-adventure video game developed and published by Gameloft based on and featuring various characters owned by The Walt Disney Company.[2] The game has players tend to a magical valley populated by various Disney and Pixar characters who previously underwent a curse that caused them to lose their memories of their lives in the valley.

Disney Dreamlight Valley
Key promotional artwork[lower-alpha 1]
Developer(s)	Gameloft
Publisher(s)	Gameloft
Platform(s)	macOS Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Release	2023[1]
Genre(s)	life simulation, adventure[1][2]

The game was released in early access for those who purchased a "Founder's Pack" or have an Xbox Game Pass subscription on September 6, 2022.[3] It will be fully released as a free-to-play game in 2023.[1]

Gameplay

Disney Dreamlight Valley takes place in the titular "Dreamlight Valley", a magical valley with various biomes populated by Disney and Pixar characters. The game features nonlinear gameplay similar to Nintendo's Animal Crossing games where players take control of a customizable human player character living in the valley. The valley is synced to real time based on the time set on the player's console or computer.

The player can explore the valley to gather resources and use their magic to clear away "Night Thorns", an unwanted plant with dark magic that spawn throughout the valley. Foods can be cooked into various meals at a cooking station such as an oven or a campfire, while other resources can be crafted into materials or furniture at a crafting station. The player can eat food to replenish energy, which is required to use magic-imbued tools including a pickaxe, a shovel, a fishing rod, and a watering can; meals can replenish greater amounts of energy than foods grown, harvested, or purchased in the valley, and can make the player "well fed", which gives them a movement speed boost. Furniture and certain objects can be placed and rearranged in the valley or inside the player's house, and can also move and rotate buildings in the valley to their liking. The player can also change their outfit and appearance at any time, clothing can be customized further by the player with a clothes designer option called "Touch of Magic". Unlike in the Animal Crossing games, the player's tools, clothing, and furniture do not take up space in their inventory; tools are selected using an option wheel and never break from use, while the inventory screen contains separate "wardrobe" and "furniture" options for clothing and furniture respectively.

The player can earn a currency called "Star Coins" during gameplay, usually by selling most items in their inventory to Goofy at various stalls run by him throughout the valley. Star Coins can be spent on crops and seeds sold by Goofy at his stalls, materials sold by Kristoff at his stall, certain foods that are only available at Remy's restaurant, or on clothes and furniture sold by Scrooge McDuck at his store. They can also be spent on new buildings or building upgrades (all handled in-universe by Scrooge's "McDuck Construction" company) that provide additional benefits, such as more items available at Goofy's stalls or more space in the player's house, or on wells strewn throughout the valley that allows the player to fast travel to different biomes.

The player can interact with and befriend the villagers, including heroes and villains. The player can build up a "friendship level" with that villager by having a daily discussion with them, giving them gifts, completing quests they assign the player, and (except for characters who can only swim in the valley's waters) hanging out with them and doing activities, including gardening, mining, digging, harvesting, and fishing; doing specific activities with a land-based villager, depending on the role the player assigns the villager at friendship level two, will earn the player more resources related to that activity. Raising a friendship level (up to level ten) with a villager will give the player rewards including Star Coins, exclusive furniture and clothes, and exclusive motifs for "Touch of Magic", as well as increased resources from hanging out with them and new quests.

Plot

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The game follows the player as they fall asleep at night and enter into a dream world. As the story progresses, players may get a strange sense of déjà vu.

Characters

Disney Dreamlight Valley features several Disney and Pixar characters who reside in the valley as "villagers".[4]

Characters whose names are italicized are currently not available in the game, but are confirmed to be added in a later update.

Character	Voiced by	Franchise
Anna	Abby Trott	Frozen
Ariel	Jodi Benson	The Little Mermaid
Belle	TBA	Beauty and the Beast
Buzz Lightyear	Tim Allen	Toy Story
Donald Duck	Tony Anselmo	Mickey & Friends
Elsa	Danielle Bisutti	Frozen
Prince Eric	Christopher Daniel Barnes	The Little Mermaid
Goofy	Bill Farmer	Mickey & Friends
Mother Gothel	Donna Murphy	Tangled
Kristoff	Matt Lowe	Frozen
Maui	Jess Harnell	Moana
Merlin	Jeff Bennett	The Sword in the Stone
Mickey Mouse	Bret Iwan	Mickey & Friends
Minnie Mouse	Kaitlyn Robrock	Mickey & Friends
Moana	Auliʻi Cravalho	Moana
Remy	Patton Oswalt	Ratatouille
Scar	James Horan	The Lion King
Scrooge McDuck	Enn Reitel	Mickey & Friends
Stitch	Chris Sanders	Lilo & Stitch
Ursula	Pat Carroll	The Little Mermaid
WALL·E	Ben Burtt	WALL-E
Woody	Jim Hanks	Toy Story

Additionally, Pua from Moana appears as an unlockable companion (pet) for the player.

Reception

Early access

Disney Dreamlight Valley received a positive reception from critics upon its early access release in September 2022.

Sam Loveridge of GamesRadar+ appreciated the quality-to-life improvements to the game's tools in contrast to Animal Crossing and liked the presence of the Disney characters that lived in the titular Dreamlight Valley, which she said had "some truly brilliant dialogue and narrative flourishes,"[5] while saying that certain resources (such as, for her, seaweed) were too scarce.[5] Josh Broadwell of Nintendo Life gave the Nintendo Switch version 7 out of 10 stars,[6] writing he found the game to have "strong worldbuilding", finding its plot to be "an unexpected and even poignant bit of commentary about growing up in general", but believed that the game's Switch optimization was subpar with significant menu lag and game crashes.[6] Claire Crossman of Common Sense Media gave Disney Dreamlight Valley a grade of 5 out of 5 stars, praised the depiction of positive messages and role models, saying the game promotes the importance of helping others and encourages creative expression, applauding the diverse representations across the customization of the player character, writing the game offers an avatar creation system "uniquely diverse and inclusive," while appreciating the interactions between the player character and their environment.[7] Josh Broadwell of IGN gave the game a grade of 8 out of 10 and called it an "awesome life simulator that flexes its iconic characters to riveting, satisfying effect," asserted the story manages to be clever and creative, appreciated the relationships players can forge with the villagers across their different quests, and complimented the customization of the player character and their environment, stating, "Disney Dreamlight Valley feels impressively like a finished product for an early access game."[8]

Player count

On September 15, 2022, the official Disney Dreamlight Valley Twitter account tweeted that over one million players have played the game.[9][10][11]

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

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