[6][7] On 11 April 2023, Media Molecule announced on their website that they would end live service support for Dreams in September 2023, in favour of an unannounced new project.

Online server support will continue, as will bug fixing, in-game curation, official streams, and community engagement and promotion.

[8][9][10] In Dreams, players control an "imp", which is used to interact with the game's world and interface like a mouse cursor, create new items and characters, and manipulate objects by grabbing and pulling them.

[14][11] Dreams consists of six main sections: DreamSurfing, DreamShaping, Highlights, Profile, Community Jam, and Homespace.

These Dreams can be for example games to play, audiovisual experiences, and showcases of Elements such as sculptures and art to view and music to listen to.

In Assembly Mode, users can quickly search the Dreamiverse for pre-made Elements and stamp them in their Scene.

The Dreamiverse is also inhabited by the Architect and Designer, two experts who teach the player about DreamShaping through in-game tutorials, and Imps, the player-controlled creatures who manipulate objects and possess characters.

The journey takes him through a series of dream-like situations involving him and a whole cast of wonderful fantasy characters, such as D-Bug, a helpful little robot with an electric personality and Frances, a hammer wielding teddy bear.

The game also has many prize bubbles to be collected, letting players make their own creations with the elements used in Art's Dream.

Dreams has similarities to Media Molecule's previous game LittleBigPlanet, the focus being "play, create, share".

[32] Studio director Siobhan Reddy added that the campaign is used to kickstart a community, and creation is the primary goal of the game.

[27] This led the game to feature an impressionist art-style and implement the PlayStation Move motion-based controller.

[38] Dreams was revealed at PlayStation Meeting 2013, with Evans showing a technical demo onstage, involving three players creating an in-game band.

[46] In April 2023, Media Molecule announced that they would be ending support for Dreams in September, and limiting the size of future creations to maintain server stability.

[51] Vice compared it to Newgrounds, a website historically hosting Adobe Flash based media "oddities".