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Despite being a small, minimalistic game, ''Yume Nikki'' became very influential in the indie game sphere. The surrealism combined with the lack of dialogue and defined plot made the game very popular for theorists and creators of fan works that run with many different interpretations. The simplistic design has also inspired a whole slew of fangames that take the formula and apply it to their own dream worlds (enough to have [[https://yumenikkifg.fandom.com/wiki/Yume_Nikki_Fangames_Wiki their own very active wiki]]), and more broadly, it was one of the games that [[TropeCodifier popularized]] the ExplorerHorror genre; even outside of direct fangames, many indie titles, particularly of the horror variety, [[https://yumenikkifg.fandom.com/wiki/Games_Inspired_By_Yume_Nikki openly take inspiration from this game]], such as ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', and the ''VideoGame/{{Lisa}}'' trilogy.

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Despite being a small, minimalistic game, ''Yume Nikki'' became very influential in the indie game sphere. The surrealism combined with the lack of dialogue and defined plot made the game very popular for theorists and creators of fan works that run with many different interpretations. The simplistic design has also inspired a whole slew of fangames that take the formula and apply it to their own dream worlds (enough to have [[https://yumenikkifg.fandom.com/wiki/Yume_Nikki_Fangames_Wiki [[https://ynfg.yume.wiki/Yume_Nikki_Fangames_Wiki their own very active wiki]]), and more broadly, it was one of the games that [[TropeCodifier popularized]] the ExplorerHorror genre; even outside of direct fangames, many indie titles, particularly of the horror variety, [[https://yumenikkifg.fandom.com/wiki/Games_Inspired_By_Yume_Nikki [[https://ynfg.yume.wiki/Games_Inspired_By_Yume_Nikki openly take inspiration from this game]], such as ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', and the ''VideoGame/{{Lisa}}'' trilogy.



** For the rest of them, [[https://yumenikkifg.fandom.com/wiki/Yume_Nikki_Fangames_Wiki this wiki]] is a very comprehensive reference database, with screenshots, guides, download links and categorization by languages available.

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** For the rest of them, [[https://yumenikkifg.fandom.com/wiki/Yume_Nikki_Fangames_Wiki [[https://ynfg.yume.wiki/Yume_Nikki_Fangames_Wiki this wiki]] is a very comprehensive reference database, with screenshots, guides, download links and categorization by languages available.

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