The Dream Realm in AFK Journey is a game mode that isn’t directly tied to AFK Stages or Story progress, though it offers great rewards that can boost the power level of your hero roster. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about it.
What is the Dream Realm in AFK Journey
AFK Journey’s Dream Realm is a competitive PvE mode where your team of five heroes faces off against a powerful boss. Your goal is to deal as much damage as possible within 90 seconds, either killing the boss or until the timer runs out or your team is fully wiped out. Your total damage dealt is then ranked against that of other players in your server. The more damage you deal, the higher your ranking is. You bring your character roster, gear, and level into this game mode as normal.
If you kill the boss, it respawns at a higher level with higher stats and HP, making it harder to defeat again.
All Dream Realm bosses in AFK Journey
In AFK Journey’s Dream Realm, there are four bosses, though you can only fight one per day for a limited number of free attempts and extra attempts you buy with gold. They rotate daily at midnight UTC (that’s 7pm CT). Each boss has a unique ability that requires you to adapt your team strategy to either resist or counter it, testing your team-building skills extensively. The bosses and their signature skills are:
- Skyclops, who spawns minions to become invincible and sweeps the battlefield with a laser beam.
- King Croaker, who can instantly kill any hero caught in its bubble.
- Necrodrakon, who targets static heroes for debuffs, crowd control, and constant damage.
- Snow Stomper, who traps heroes in a Yeti Cell and applies a long-duration global silence.
You can click any of the bosses’ names above to check out our detailed guide on their skills, patterns, and how to build the best team to defeat them. The order of the boss rotation in the Dream Realm is Skyclops, King Croaker, Necrodrakon, and Snow Stomper. When Snow Stomper ends, the list restarts from Skyclops.
Dream Realm rewards in AFK Journey
The rewards you can get from the Dream Realm in AFK Journey are from the damage you deal to the boss and your final ranking when that boss’ rotation ends. You can only get damage rewards once per boss, per difficulty level, and you can get ranking rewards every day. The full list of rewards are:
Damage rewards
| Boss HP damage dealt | Reward |
| 10% | 100 Dream Fragments |
| 20% | 100 Dream Fragments |
| 30% | 100 Dream Fragments |
| 40% | Weapon Selection Chest |
| 50% | 200 Diamonds |
| 60% | 200 Dream Fragments |
| 70% | 300 Dream Fragments |
| 80% | Weapon Selection Chest |
| 90% | 300 Dream Fragments |
| 100% | 3 Invite Letters |
Ranking rewards
| Placement | Reward |
| 1st to 10th | Dream Monarch title, Master of Nightmares Cloak, 550 Dream Fragments, 10 Tidal Essences, 4 Temporal Essences |
| 11th to 20th | Dreamwalker title, Guardian of Dreams Cloak, 550 Dream Fragments, 8 Tidal Essences, 3 Temporal Essences |
| 50th to 21st | Dream Consciousness Cloak, 400 Dream Fragments, 6 Tidal Essences, 2 Temporal Essences |
| 51st to 100th | 350 Dream Fragments, 6 Tidal Essences, 1 Temporal Essence |
| 101st to 200th | 300 Dream Fragments, 6 Tidal Essences |
| Top 10% to Top 200 | 255 Dream Fragments, 5 Tidal Essences |
| Top 20% to 10% | 250 Dream Fragments, 5 Tidal Essences |
| Top 30% to 20% | 235 Dream Fragments, 4 Tidal Essences |
| Top 40% to 30% | 225 Dream Fragments, 4 Tidal Essences |
| Top 50% to 40% | 200 Dream Fragments, 4 Tidal Essences |
| Top 75% to 55% | 175 Dream Fragments, 5 Tidal Essences |
| Top 100% to 75% | 150 Dream Fragments, 3 Tidal Essences |
Best characters to use in the Dream Realm in AFK Journey
The Dream Realm values AFK Journey characters who have good single-target damage and debuffs, as well as those who can give buffs to their whole team. That’s why the best characters you can use in the Dream Realm are:
Best Tanks
- Thoran
- Antandra
Best Warriors
- Brutus
- Kruger
- Korin
- Scarlita
Best Marksmen
- Marilee
- Odie
- Lyca
- Cecia
Best Mages
- Parisa
- Cassadee
Best Rogues
- Vala
- Shakir
- Seth
Best Support
- Smokey & Meerky
- Koko
- Hewynn
- Reinier
