Plum Road Tea Dream is a videogame project by artist Samuel Baidoo (they/them) and collaborators. Next to a video game it also takes shape as a performance and exhibition.

Reflecting on their experience as a queer person of color, Baidoo transforms their pain, joy and grief into game lore. They created the avatar ‘S’ whose memories and safe havens you may visit. Each space becomes a sanctuary, where visitors and players are invited to slow down and wander. Exploring means diving deeper into S’s psyche. Wandering and encountering becomes an archeological process of grief, healing and gaming.

Levels, graphic styles and tones shift as one explores deeper into this world, and in the process, ourselves.
Plum Road Tea Dream centers the videogame experience on connection, introspection, and healing. It uses the video game as a way to connect the individual and the societal.

Navigate through seven unique chapters, each offering distinct gameplay styles. Collect tablets to create animistic gods with a futuristic machine and encounter challenges in empathy to be able to manifest the Sword of Sadness to help S. complete their transformative ritual.