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Madotsuki in the Nexus

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In 2004, Japanese freeware developer Kikiyama created a game titled Yume Nikki (Japanese for "Dream Diary") in RPG Maker. The result was a surreal, abstract Art Game about lucid dreaming which gained a dedicated cult following in its heyday. Much of the appeal comes from the fact that everything in Yume Nikki, from the story to the imagery, is left up to the player to interpret.

You play as Madotsuki, a hikikomori shut-in who refuses to leave her apartment. There isn't much to do beyond sleeping, but that's where the game really kicks off. Madotsuki enters different worlds in her dreamscape and explores them, interacting with strange, alien-like creatures and collecting "effects" which appear in the form of eggs. The latter serves as the main point of the game, as you are given few (if any) instructions. Do anything you want, and go anywhere you want. Again, it's left up to you.

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The current version of Yume Nikki, 0.10, was released in October 2007 along with an English translation of the effects and menus. Download , and have fun playing this in the dead of night!

For French Tropers, the game was fully translated in Molière's language and is available for download here .

See also LSD: Dream Emulator, a game with a similar premise, only in 3D and with randomized environments. It is the Ur-Example of games like this.

In February 2013 yumenikki.net began offering merchandise . The most notable of such products was a manga, created by Hitoshi Tomizawa of Alien Nine fame. Other works included a novel and an album of remixed songs. The manga and novel are not intended to have bearing on anybody's interpretations of the game, rather, they are merely their own creators' ideas.

The game got a Steam release on January 9, 2018, still free of charge, as a lead-up to the next Yume Nikki project. At the end of the countdown, a new 3D adventure game called YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- was announced and would be supervised by Kikiyama. It was released on both Steam and Playism on 23 February, 2018. Playism later released a 2.0 version for the game, which adds new content to the game, on 24 May, 2018. A port for the Nintendo Switch was released on 21 February, 2019. Here's the teaser trailer and the gameplay trailer.

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Tropes Exclusive to the Original Game

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Tropes Exclusive to the Novel

Ascended Extra: Poniko gets a much larger role here as the narrator .

. Manchild: Many of Madotsuki's actions in the dream are described as very childlike, doing whatever she wants and not paying mind to how horrific her surroundings are.

Trapped in Another World: Poniko is trapped within Madotsuki's dream worlds, and when not in her room tails behind her like a ghost. Her goal is to encourage Madotsuki to explore her subconscious and overcome her issues, in hopes they can escape her dreams.

Tropes Exclusive to Dream Diary