Indie Japanese developer Sakuba Metal Works has announced his insanely bizarre horror game, Garage: Bad Dream Adventure, was remastered and is now available in English, for smartphones.

Garage: Bad Dream Adventure is the brainchild of Japanese surrealist artist Tomomi Yuki Sakuba, and was published back in 1999 by Toshiba for PC and Mac with an extremely limited run of only 3000 copies.

Since then it has been next to impossible to get a copy, let alone ever see the game released in English. It saw somewhat of a following on online message boards like 4chan, with users pooling money together to buy an expensive copy.

For years Sakuba was unable to re-release it, as he didn’t own the rights. The mobile remastered version finally happened via a very successful crowdfunding campaign, which raised 22,885,922 yen – over seven times the original goal of 3 million yen to remaster and re-release the game.

Garage: Bad Dream Adventure got “almost all” of the original surrealist images touched up by Sakuba, videos have been updated with AI frame interpolation, the user interface was improved, and the game was rebalanced. Furthermore, the game also has new chapters, subquests, and multiple endings were even added.

You can purchase the mobile version of Garage: Bad Dream Adventure for a paltry $5 on iOS (via the App Store) and Android (via the Google Play Store), quite a bit cheaper over the 300,000 yen (roughly $2640 USD) auction price seen in Japan, where the game is still considered rare.

Here’s a new trailer for the port:

Here’s a rundown on the game:

Garage – This weird machine is said to create a bizarre dark world by working on the subject’s subconscious mind. The player character is thrown into an enclosed world filled with sewage, with decaying wooden buildings and rusted metals. And he discovers that his body has been changed into something in between a machine and a living creature. He wanders around this structurally complex maze-like world in search of a way out.

“Garage: Bad Dream Adventure” was originally released as a PC adventure game in 1999. In this game, the player character enters his inner world through a psychotherapeutic machine. He is turned into an odd-looking biological machine and searches for a way to escape from that world. Because of its unique world setting, it is described as one of the top 3 warped games or bizarre games.

It is basically a mystery-solving exploratory adventure game. But it also has many RPG elements such as character development through body modifications and intricate fishing system. And the story questions the ambiguity of escaping from the world and staying in the world.

One of the features of Garage is its detailed world building. Elements like energy circulation, ecosystem and how the world came about are intertwined tightly, and are reflected in the game system, bringing to life the feel of the deep another world. The unique feeling of strangeness and anxiety surrounding the whole game, even though it is not a horror or depressing game, is created by these settings and system.