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flOw

Developers: Jenova ChenNicholas Clark
14 April 2006
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Aquatic#36 Life simulation#99 Action
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2006 • Jenova Chen Nicholas Clark  
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2007 • TGC SCE  
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Sometime in high school, I found a friend of mine playing this game on his laptop. He went to take a piss and what I saw on his laptop perplexed me. I didn’t know that this was a video game and thought it was rather odd that my friend was staring at his screensaver. I slightly brushed his laptop mouse with my finger to see what he was really doing, but the screensaver did not go away. The persistent screensaver befuddled me as I tapped the mouse key with slight fervor. My friend came back and tilted his head with confusion like a German shepherd dog. “Oh yeah, that’s flOw man. It’s pretty fuckin’ sick dude”, my friend said followed by a slight cough. I realized that my friend was on some serious drugs and needed help…

Nah, that story isn’t true. I just wanted to set up a clever scenario to tell the joke that flOw is nothing more than a pretty screensaver.
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Erockthestrange 2019-02-25T03:40:56Z
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Nothing: The Game

Literally almost fell asleep during the last attempt to finish it.
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around 2017-12-28T09:43:39Z
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An amoeba in a pound
You play as a microorganism, and you must feed on the food available to grow in size. There are a couple of roaming predators you must run from, but with time you may even be able to be the predator.

Visually its aesthetically pleasing, offering bright colors with a blue soothing background. Very minimalistic, both in visuals as well as sound.

One thing interesting is that the player can choose to advance to the next level whenever they wish, as well as return to the previous level to get a bit more food if they are having trouble. Its kind of a manual difficulty setting.

That said, its a pretty boring game, that failed to grip my attention whether through its gameplay loop or its soothing aesthetic. It feels inconsequencial.
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Threntall 2016-07-28T15:48:05Z
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Shinkyo flOw 2024-01-09T14:31:06Z
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raegazel flOw 2023-12-29T05:36:09Z
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Takashi_Hafuza flOw 2023-12-26T13:31:55Z
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vyce flOw 2023-12-03T19:00:25Z
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2.5
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  • watercolour 2018-09-27 03:18:05.923896+00
    'life simulation' is somewhat misleading as a genre
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    • PhCraft 2019-01-24 08:44:50.361239+00
      sorta makes sense but surely there's a better genre tag
    • ... 2024-03-05 01:51:52.43359+00
      I always called it an action game
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  • RawheatC 2023-04-26 17:43:04.919353+00
    If Spore was condensed down to its only fun chapter
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  • tunita_aisling 2024-01-03 21:23:12.053744+00
    "Literally almost fell asleep during the last attempt to finish it."
    i think that's kind of the point, it's meant to be relaxing
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  • tunita_aisling 2024-01-03 21:23:54.100996+00
    http://www.jenovachen.com/flowingames/flowing.htm
    official link
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