History VideoGame / LCDDEM

* AcidTripDimension
* AllJustADream: Par for the course!
* BlackoutBasement: Hexagon World, as of version 0.030.

** [[spoiler: Chie at the end. As well as earlier than that in the nightmare event.]]

* ClockTower: One of the more memorable areas.

* DreamPeople: Weirdly, some of them appear to be fairly normal looking.
* DreamWithinADream: Sometimes, if you use the bed while in the dream world. This can show you how many orbs you've collected.

%%* DreamW orld

* EyesAlwaysShut: Chie, like the other protagonists.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Once you kill someone in the dream world, they don't come back, even if you wake up and go back to sleep. There's a good reason for this.]]

* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Chie with the axe.

* GuideDangIt: The mazes are enormous.

* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: To find Chie's memories.

* TheMaze: Many, all of which have become significantly maze-ier with version 0.030.

* MiniGame: The borderline impossible NEJI.

** [[spoiler:The ending]], compared to the rest of the game, is a sudden jolt.

** Subverted with the head in the spongey eye monster area.

* SceneryPorn: Stained Glass World, among others.

* ShoutOut: Rainbow Tile World is likely a direct reference to the similar rave worlds of ''Yume Nikki'' and many of its successors.

* SolemnEndingTheme: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9T9uIu6spE This one. Spoilers, obviously.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: Like other Yume Nikki 'fangames'.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Chie's closet [[spoiler:is ''not'' a closet.]]
* UnderTheSea: The underwater area, naturally.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: If you kill the [[spoiler:sleeping child]] in the weedy building, you will become trapped there. Killing the [[spoiler:eyeball creature]] in the park is also not very pleasant.

* WideOpenSandbox
* WrapAround: A lot of areas.

* YourRewardIsClothes: The Parka effect, obtained after navigating through a door maze and climbing several long flights of stairs, is purely cosmetic.
** And then the same thing happens again in the tower found in the ice floe area, this time with the Yukata effect.
** This may in fact be a motif; the same thing happens with the Goldfish Bowl, found in the door-warping, cliff-hopping, ladder-climbing maze of the Mining area.

* AnAxeToGrind: Chie's weapon.

* DreamWorld

* SlapYourselfAwake: Chie pinches herself to get out of the dream. Subverted [[spoiler:in the ending, when her pinching doesn't work.]]

* PinchMe: Chie pinches herself to get out of the dream. Subverted [[spoiler:in the ending, when her pinching doesn't work.]]

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to its precedent, the horror elements have been toned down quite a bit.

* FlowerInHerHair: Chie wears a flower in her hair.

* HairDecorations: Chie wears a flower in her hair.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer

* DownerEnding
* DreamPeople

* EyesAlwaysShut: Chie.

* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind

** [[spoiler:The ending, compared to the rest of the game, is a sudden jolt.]]

* WombLevel: One of the orb locations appears to be inside a uterus.

* Mini-Game: The borderline impossible NEJI.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: It's likely that Chie [[spoiler:had something to do with or knew how that other person died,]] hence why [[spoiler: she's crying over the body at the end of the game.]]

* {{Sequel}}: Parodied in a way with LCDDEM 2 which has you playing as the game's creator. You can do nothing but play NEJI, which ended up being integrated into the main game anyway.

* [[spoiler:ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Chie's closet is not a closet.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: [[spoiler:If you kill the sleeping child in the weedy building, you will become trapped there. Killing the eyeball creature in the park is also not very pleasant.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:A surprisingly large amount of characters die forever if you kill them.]]

* TheWikiRule: [[http://lcddem.wikia.com/wiki/LCDDEM_Wiki Got it covered.]]

While the game was finished at v0.030, Koronba has removed all traces of the game from various websites (going as far as to ''delete'' entire webpages he had complete control over) and has asked that [[OldShame everyone else do the same and never think about or even talk about it ever again.]] (According to [[http://psiwolf.tumblr.com/post/48471399826/a-psa-from-koronba-lcddem-producer-psiwolfs this]] tumblr post back in 2013).

The game is finished at v0.030 and can be found [[http://koronba.husuma.com/LcdDem.html here]].

''[=LcdDem=]'' (''Lucid Dream'' with every other letter removed) is a ''YumeNikki'' fangame made by the Japanese composer known as Koronba. It's known for its gentler, more serene atmosphere and boasts one of the most well-received ''YumeNikki'' fangame soundtracks out there.

* SurrealHorror: While the game is far less frightening than ''YumeNikki'', there are still many scenes with surreal horror that may be unsettling.

You play as Chie, a girl in a tiny room (with no apparent exit, strangely) and a balcony. She can only play her depressing Famicom-esque game NEJI and sleep. Once asleep, she enters a WideOpenSandbox lucid dream world. Like the original ''Yume Nikki'', there are many hidden effects to find, but the primary goal of the game is to seek the thirteen orbs scattered throughout her mind.

The game is currently at v0.030 and can be found [[http://koronba.husuma.com/LcdDem.html here]].

** [[spoiler: Chie at the end.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: The effects [[spoiler: are actually craft supplies in real life.]]

** Going to bed while dreaming can also [[spoiler: trigger the axe nightmare event]].

** The Monochrome Beach portal rooms become these if the portals aren't there.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The boy in the dark forest area [[spoiler: by random event becomes a large blob-like monster with two enormous eyes covering its body.]]

* {{Hikikomori}}: Until the end, Chie's room doesn't even connect to the rest of the house.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In one area, if you kill the person in the room, then return, there is nothing left but a pool of blood and bones.]]

* MoodWhiplash: Go ahead, Chie. [[spoiler: Kill that creature on the park swing. It's not like the whole place will go dark because of it.]]
** [[spoiler: The ending, compared to the rest of the game, is a sudden jolt.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: It's likely that Chie [[spoiler: had something to do with or knew how that other person died,]] hence why [[spoiler: she's crying over the body at the end of the game.]]

* PinchMe: Chie pinches herself to get out of the dream. Subverted [[spoiler: in the ending, when her pinching doesn't work.]]

* {{Sequel}}: LCDDEM 2 has you playing as the game's creator. You can do nothing but play NEJI.

* SolemnEndingTheme
* SpiritualSuccessor

* Mini-Game: The impossible NEJI.