At Gamescom 2012, Media Molecule announced that they were working on two different projects, with one being Tearaway.[27] Dreams was revealed at PlayStation Meeting 2013, with Evans showing a technical demo onstage, involving three people creating an in-game band.[28] A teaser for the game was released in July 2014.[29] The game was officially announced at Sony Interactive Entertainment's press conference at E3 2015.[30] A beta for the game was originally set to be released in 2016, however, it was delayed to 2017 and then to 2018.[31] The beta ran from 19 December 2018 until 4 February 2019.[32] The game was made available via early access on 16 April 2019, a first for a Sony game, before being officially released on 14 February 2020.[33][34] An update that added support for PlayStation VR was announced on 30 June 2020 and was released on 22 July 2020.[35] Online multiplayer is set to be released for the game sometime post-launch.[36]