The Dreaming and Arousal of Puppeteers

Yuki hunts monsters called Yoma for a living, using magic to control puppets that do her fighting for her. Then a wave of strange dreams starts making people act out whatever they're dreaming, and the Yoma count spikes right alongside it.

Yuki puts two and two together fast: the Yoma live in dreams and now they're clearly steering them. She starts digging into the incidents around town, which pulls her into the dream world itself, where the line between her and her puppets gets a lot less stable than she'd like.

Combat runs on turn-based RPG mechanics, with Yuki's puppeteer skills forming the backbone of every fight. Outside of battle, the dream-world sequences are where things go sideways for her, tangled up with corruption and mind control that chip away at her control over herself as much as her puppets. The modern-day setting stays grounded even as the dream logic takes over.