游戏的制作灵感来源于Matt Gilgenbach自己在患强迫症和抑郁症时的经历，玩家将帮助同样具有心理疾病的游戏主角将真实和虚幻区分开来。

《无尽梦魇》作为一款注重心理恐怖的解谜游戏，开发商决定避开现有同题材游戏中的常用设定方式，包括固定有限的 Checkpoint、道具的存储方式以及谜题的解决方法等，希望制作出一款全新的心理恐怖类型游戏。 Neverending Nightmares is a psychological horror game inspired by the developer's actual battle with mental illness. In the game, you take on the role of Thomas who awakens from a terrible nightmare only to find that he is still dreaming. As he descends deeper through the layers of hellish dreamscapes, he must hide from horrifying apparitions and outrun his inner demons. He must discover which of the horrors he encounters are a manifestation of his own psychological state and figure out wh