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** In the nightmare ending [[spoiler: you summon an EldritchAbomination in the tunnels. When you arrive at the surface the entire world now looks the way the tunnels did. You look up in time to see the sky become a solid living membrane and begin yo smother the entire world. A claustrophobics literal nightmare come true]]
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** In the good ending [[spoiler: you face your fears and are reunited with your dog. It is ambiguous whether your journey was a psychotic break or a real experience, but either way you’ve grown so much as a person that for the first time in your life your claustrophobia has retreated]]
** In one bad ending [[spoiler: you simply turn around and leave in the first area. Your claustrophobia gets worse and you never see your dog again]]
** In another bad ending [[spoiler: you shoot your dog. You become depressed and overcome by guilt. The entire journey to that point is all but stated to have been a hallucination]]
** In yet another bad ending [[spoiler: you make it to the end and escape without your dog. The things you saw in the tunnels and your own failure haunt you for the rest of your days. The journey is implied to have been real.]]
** In one bad ending [[spoiler: you simply turn around and leave in the first area. Your claustrophobia gets worse and you never see your dog again]]
** In another bad ending [[spoiler: you shoot your dog. You become depressed and overcome by guilt. The entire journey to that point is all but stated to have been a hallucination]]
** In yet another bad ending [[spoiler: you make it to the end and escape without your dog. The things you saw in the tunnels and your own failure haunt you for the rest of your days. The journey is implied to have been real.]]
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** [[spoiler: a second woman, the author of the Grand Bulim notes, would later take her own life years later in the same stretch of subway over her guilt about terminating her pregnancy due to her self image issues]]
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* EldritchLocation: The whole underground Grand Bulim Avenue Station, overlapping with SinisterSubway. The entire station is filled with an odd, red haze, one room's floor ''bulges'' upward like a massive tumour, and the layout doesn't make sense on many parts of the game.
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->''"You can feel it every you go. The walls getting closer, the sky dropping further down every day. With labored breath your world is shrinking; like a snake constricting its prey, or several layers of cellophane wrapped on someone's mouth. You can't scream, and you can't breath."''
-->-- '''PSX Backcase narration.'''
Lost in Vivo is an horror game revolving around claustrophobia and other psychological fears.
You are walking with your dog when a storm comes, with the sudden rain your service dog falls down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it.
Along the way you will meet other people that are also stricken by an abnormal or psychological fear. You may be able to help them, just as you may be able to free yourself, but just as likely, they or you may be beyond any help.
Developed by Akuma Kira, the game's available online through [[https://akuma-kira.itch.io/lost-in-vivo itch.io]] and ''[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/963710/Lost_in_Vivo/ Steam]]''.
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* BodyHorror
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* SurrealHorror
* ThroughtheEyesOfMadness
-->-- '''PSX Backcase narration.'''
Lost in Vivo is an horror game revolving around claustrophobia and other psychological fears.
You are walking with your dog when a storm comes, with the sudden rain your service dog falls down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it.
Along the way you will meet other people that are also stricken by an abnormal or psychological fear. You may be able to help them, just as you may be able to free yourself, but just as likely, they or you may be beyond any help.
Developed by Akuma Kira, the game's available online through [[https://akuma-kira.itch.io/lost-in-vivo itch.io]] and ''[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/963710/Lost_in_Vivo/ Steam]]''.
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* AbandonedHospital
* AdultFear
* AnimalisticAbomination
* BeneathTheEarth
* BodyHorror
* DownTheDrain
* EldritchLocation
* HumanoidAbomination
* NothingIsScarier
* SinisterSubway
* SurrealHorror
* ThroughtheEyesOfMadness
