How did you guys discover Yume Nikki?

[Purple]

I want to get a sense of how far the fanbase stretches. I saw a few memes on reddit, and a few days later read a Polygon article. I'm telling my friend all about it and it's the first time he's heard of it, too. So how did you guys learn about it?

[DarklyLSL]

A YouTube channel called Nitro Rad, does reviews on games, Yume Nikki was one of the first videos he made. Great channel by the way, does reviews on a lot of RPGMaker games.

[LIBRARY]

steam recommended me this game.

[Yadin]

I found it from these two things:
-Nitro Rad
-Jordan Underneath

[Tom Cat]

I found Yume Nikki through this guy who make amazing pixel animations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTcW5l666UE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNhphyF74sA

[Darthzz]

Publicado originalmente por General Pie:

I found Yume Nikki through this guy who make amazing pixel animations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTcW5l666UE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNhphyF74sA

I love those videos. Turns Yume Nikki from something disturbing and mysterious to something goofy and wholesome.

[Jugdjay]

I discovered Yume Nikki about 9 years ago. I was trying to think out of the box for the next game I'll play. What I was looking for was "an uncommon game that isn't well-known". So I searched "unknown games that are good" and I ended up on a blog post talking about Yume Nikki. They shared the link so we can try it ourselves, and so I did. I slowly became part of the YN community then. Got out of the community in 2015 or so, but since 2019 I come back to Yume Nikki every now and then. I'm not as big a fan as I used to be, but I still enjoy YN and its fangames.

Fun fact: Yume Nikki introduced me to the Mother series. I somewhat knew about it before, but when I learned Kikiyama is a fan of Mother I actually played the games myself.

[cavatalli]

I heard about it being good and it was free. It's really good

[月夜下飘散的思念]

It was 2015, i just played the witch's house and when I searched pictures about it i found Ib and yumenikki

[mecha_yota]

I think it was 4 years ago. I had completed undertale at that time, later I found out there was one hidden character - Gaster. So, I started to read about him. Somewhere was written he looked like Uboa. And I was like: "Who the heck is that Uboa"

Several hours later I was already playing this game. But right now prefer Yume 2kki more than original.

[Diddy Kong Racing]

I discovered it when Tobyfox was retweeting Undertale fangames that he liked and said that this was the best one.

[is that a freudian thing]

A few months ago I was getting into earthbound and heard about Toby Fox's earthbound rom hack. I was looking at posts and stuff about it when I saw a post asking about why a specific sprite in the hack resembled uboa from Yume Nikki. From there I looked the game up and here I am now exploring the strange dream world of Yume Nikki

[[MM] WMan22]

Long, long before this game was on steam, probably about a decade ago give or take, little teenager WMan explored the internet far and wide on their own volition to pass the time a lot of free niche games as a substitute for not being able to afford paid new ones. This stretched the gamut from newgrounds flash games to free demos.

Being naturally curious and resourceful while not giving one single iota of a crap about how popular something is takes you to interesting places, man. Lets you discover absolute gems that go under most people's radar which feels like an absolute travesty at times, like for example how I recently discovered a really good game thus far called Worlds that I can't imagine many people played because the game is hard to search due to the name being a generic search term, or Cave Story that before its release on steam was just a cool gem of an indie game that kinda got passed around and talked about on imageboards/forums and such.

Anyway, I've gotten somewhat off topic. At the time I discovered this, Yume Nikki was not known as the somewhat underground cultural sensation it was nowadays as "that game with the funny uboa memes that looks a lot like undertale" (even though this far pre-dates undertale comparisons are inevitably made nowadays unfortunately), it was more of a tightly knit community of RPGMaker stuff and weird games people played and made things for the love of it.

Finding it and the Yume Nikki fangame community felt like discovering buried treasure, which is a sensation I chase to this day and still occasionally get to experience once in a while especially thanks to getting into VR.
It is hard to be a fan of games like this and stuff like Off, because they are hard to find. But at the end of the day, it matters more that I get to be a fan of this kind of experience. It feels special.

[noe41070]

The first time i heard about Yumme Nikki, it was in a YouTube Video seven years ago

[absayaya]

I kept seeing uboa everywhere and had a few nightmares about it and then i decided to play it and it is one of my favorite games, if not my favorite game.

[Katx]

saw a bit of it on YouTube so decided to look it up.