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[[File:flownexus_7925.jpg|frame|Think [[Hub Level|the nexus]] looks a bit unsettling? Just wait.]]
'''''.flow''''' is a [[Freeware Games|freeware]] ''[[Yume Nikki]]'' [[Spiritual Successor|fangame]] created in the RPG Maker 2003 engine by a Japanese developer going under the alias "lol". Like ''Yume Nikki'', exploration, surrealism, and atmosphere are the basis of the game, but unlike ''Yume Nikki'', this one has a LOT of disturbing content and horror elements added in. It is an incomplete game, with "lol" being known only by a twitter and a [[Pixiv]] account. As of 0.1, the game now has an end game that leads up to an ending that increases in length as one continues to explore.▼
▲''.flow'' is a [[Freeware Games|freeware]] ''[[Yume Nikki]]'' [[Spiritual Successor|fangame]] created in the RPG Maker 2003 engine by a Japanese developer going under the alias "lol". Like ''Yume Nikki'', exploration, surrealism, and atmosphere are the basis of the game, but unlike ''Yume Nikki'', this one has a LOT of disturbing content and horror elements added in. It is an incomplete game, with "lol" being known only by a twitter and a [[Pixiv]] account. As of 0.1, the game now has an end game that leads up to an ending that increases in length as one continues to explore.
''.flow'' stars a young girl known only as [[Meaningful Name|Sabitsuki]], who uses her computer (in one way or another, whether it be the internet or artificially-induced dreaming) to explore a surreal world while collecting special abilities known as 'effects'. These 'effects' change Sabitsuki's appearance, varying from witch clothes to a corpse. Notably, some such as the whistle and the pipe shall affect NPC's, although most [[Goggles Do Nothing|do nothing]].
Various versions, both English and Japanese, can be found [http://dotflow.wikidot.com/downloads here]. Version 0.15 can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20120327142254/http://loda.jp/lol_rust/ here]. The author also has a [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=269411 pixiv account,] a [http://lolrust.deviantart.com/ deviantART account] and a [http://twitter.com/lol_rust twitter page].
Notably, much like [[Yume Nikki|the original]] there are no provided explanations to what is seen or discovered in the game. Fans [[Epileptic Trees|are left to speculate]], with no names given to anything other than the protagonist.
[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused]] with the 2006 freeware life simulation game ''[[
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▲* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]
* [[Acid Trip Dimension]]
* [[All Just a Dream]]: {{spoiler|[[Or Was It a Dream?]]}}
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: The robot effect gives these to Sabitsuki. The TV effect gives Sabitsuki a TV for a head.
* [[Art Shift]]: The 8-bit area.
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* [[Dream People]]
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Quite a few of them.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Sabitsuki. Except with the Mono Eye effect, which is exactly the opposite.
* [[Eye Scream]]: A couple of the posters in the school area depict a pair of eyes which appear to be either bleeding profusely or heavily tattooed. Some fans also speculate that {{spoiler|Smile's eyes are either missing, scarred or severely damaged as a result of their strange '+' shape. The effect you get from him is called 'tattoo', however, so it's unclear whether or not the '+' is just a design he has on his face or something even worse.}}
** As of V0.15, there is an eye graffiti in the apartments, that you can smack with the pipe and cause it to bleed.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: ''Candle World Kaibutsu'', for the Kaibutsu in the blood-path area after the hospital. Enrage it, and [[Oh Crap|it chases you faster than the Broom can fly]].
* [[Firing in
* [[Flying Broomstick]]: The Broom effect, which both serves the same function as the bike in ''[[Yume Nikki]]'' and is also similar to the witch effect from the same game.
* [[Gainax Ending]]: The game has three endings, each one less coherent than the last.
* [[Gas Mask Mooks]]: The maids, who all wear gas masks.
* [[Girl
* [[Good Guy Bar]]: The Sugar Hole, populated by one regular and occasionally a Kaibutsu. Sabitsuki can occasionally get a beer there, or just have a meal at varying prices.
* [[Gorn]]: A good deal of it, as standard for ''Yume Nikki'' fangames. Also the tumbling doll, corpse and viscera (spilled guts) effects for Sabitsuki.
** Getting hit by red demons during the end game further and further decays Sabitsuki, to the point where her face is mangled and she's coated in blood.
* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: All 24 effects (plus the 25th effect, the instructions) as Sabitsuki, then the {{spoiler|3 empty boxes corresponding to important parts of Sabitsuki's mind}}.
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* [[Ill Girl]]: Sabitsuki is generally considered to be one, to the point where it verges on being canon. To get an idea of how accepted this theory is, ''there aren't any popular alternatives.''
* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: The Ghost effect.
* [[Journey to
* [[Jump Scare]]: One random event in the red eye world, there is a "door" leading to an area with three Kaibutsu. If you near them, they chase you and you can only head south... only to get hit by a super-fast Kaibutsu that ''[[Holy Shit Quotient|comes out of nowhere]]''. If you manage to avoid them with the ghost effect, you will be taken to the Corrupted School, where Kaibutsu chase you into a room where you will be {{spoiler|killed by Smile}}.
** When you find Smile and his sister in their house, and decide to hit them with your steel pipe. '' {{spoiler|HOLY CRAP WHAT WAS THAT}}''
** Possibly the event in the bar where you {{spoiler|try to attack a drinking Kaibutsu and she ''immediately'' counters your attack, killing you in the process.}}
** The very last scene of the [[Golden Ending]]. {{spoiler|SUDDEN BLAST OF STATIC}}
* [[Kill It
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Sabitsuki translates to "covered in rust". Given the game's darker visual style and audio style, it really fits. {{spoiler|The endgame changes her name to ''Rust''.}}
** Smile. Also Sister, who [[Exactly What It Says
** The white-haired, humanoid creatures that may or may not chase you are called "Kaibutsu," meaning "monster."
* [[Mental World]]: Sabitsuki explores her mind in some fashion. {{spoiler|It seems straightforward until the Endgame, where strange things start happening to her real life room, eventually waking up in her bed as if nothing happened. Of course, until you get to the very last ending.}}
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* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: The tumbling doll effect, natch. Also the viscera effect, where Sabitsuki casually walks around with her intestines hanging out and casually tries to shove them back inside when using the action button.
** The endgame trumps all that, as Sabitsuki continues to casually wander around even as her body is torn apart by demons.
* [[One
** {{spoiler|If not for a glitch in Rust's version of the corrupted school event, the giant red demons would do the exact same thing.}}
** The Kaibutsu in the bar {{spoiler|will murder you if you try to smack her.}}
* [[Orcus
* [[Perpetual Beta]]: Although it's still, version number-wise, farther in development than [[Yume Nikki]].
* [[Randomly Drops]]: Money from killing enemies, as well as several events.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: As in ''Yume Nikki'', inactive enemies don't like being attacked. One in particular in a bar will even {{spoiler|kill Sabitsuki for trying to hit him}}.
** Hitting Smile with the steel pipe in his house.
* [[Shout
** Another area appears to be a shout out to [[
** Using the Witch effect gives Sabitsuki [[Kiki's Delivery Service|a large red bow and blueish dress]].
** Madotsuki appears in the Famicom world with the Witch Effect equipped, in the same room where you get the Broom effect
* [[Slasher Smile]]: The appropriately named character known as [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Snow Means Death]]: {{spoiler|[[Fridge Horror|Blowing the whistle in one part of the industrial snow area reveals a ghost of a younger Sabitsuki wearing an orange scarf...]]}}
* [[Spiritual Successor]]
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* [[The Virus]]: {{spoiler|Parts of the game hint that Sabitsuki had, or currently has a mental disease or virus}}. The red demons could also been seen as these, especially in the endgame.
* [[Unexpected Shmup Level]]: The Witch Event, an homage to the Witch Event from ''[[Yume Nikki]]''.
* [[
** {{spoiler|There's a hidden friendship counter involving Oreko. It increases when you interact with her and [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|decreases when you kill her.]] Maxing it out not only lets you get [[Your Reward Is Clothes|a unique menu style change]], but also makes [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|a ghostly Oreko holding hands with a ghostly Sabitsuki appear]] in the dream world.}}
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: The steel pipe, Sabitsuki's equivalent to Madotsuki's knife, can be used to kill things, and there are oh so many defenseless characters out there to beat to death.
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