Dr. Doccerson's invention—the C.R.U.S.H. machine, which lets a person explore their own dreams and subconscious—needed a human trial. His friend Danny volunteered. The experiment went wrong immediately: the machine became so attached to Danny's mental architecture that it refused to release him, trapping him inside his own subconscious indefinitely. Crush3D is a puzzle platformer in which Danny must escape from a dreamscape that obeys different rules than waking reality, while the player manipulates perspective to collapse three-dimensional space into two dimensions to create new paths.