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1Uri is a creator of pixellated RPG-style adventure games, generally in the horror genre. She creates her games in UsefulNotes/WolfRPGEditor.
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3So far, games created by Uri include:
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5* ''VideoGame/{{Insanity|Uri}}'' (original was made prior to 2011; remake released in 2020)
6* ''VideoGame/{{Paranoiac}}'' (original released in 2011; remake released in 2019)
7* The ''VideoGame/StrangeMenSeries''
8** ''VideoGame/TheCrookedMan'' (original released in 2012; remake released in 2018)
9** ''VideoGame/{{The Sandman|2014}}'' (original released in 2014; remake released in 2018)
10** ''VideoGame/TheBoogieMan'' (original released in 2015; remake released in 2018)
11** ''VideoGame/TheHangedMan'' (original released in 2017; remake released in 2018)
12* ''VideoGame/MermaidSwamp'' (original released in 2013; remake released in 2018)
13* ''VideoGame/{{Pedestal|2021}}'' (released in 2021 in Japan and her first non-horror game)
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15Her website can be found [[https://urigames.web.fc2.com/ here]].
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17!!Tropes common to Uri's works include:
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19* BodyHorror: Shows up in several of her games.
20** The monster in ''Paranoiac'' is very disfigured and has to crawl along the ground.
21** David's adversary in ''The Crooked Man'' has one of the worst neck cricks in existence.
22** In ''Mermaid Swamp'', [[spoiler:Yuka's illness causes her to swell]], the mermaid of the legend suffers serious health issues and becomes hideous as a result of her entrapment, and the less said about [[spoiler:the not-really-mermaids who were the basis for the mermaid legend]], the better.
23* DrivenToSuicide: There will probably be at least one character who does this per game, though it varies as to whether they go through with it.
24* EarnYourHappyEnding: While her games tend to enter some very dark places, they not only tend to have one happy ending among a few bad ones, the happy ending will be one that the characters (and the player) have definitely worked for.
25* MultipleEndings: Most of her games include this trope. There will usually be a good ending and a ''[[DownerEnding really]]'' [[DownerEnding bad ending(s)]].
26* SignatureStyle: So far, most of her games have somehow involved a very flawed, just-this-side-of-sane protagonist having to uncover the motives of a restless ghost. The only game that didn't include this is ''Insanity''. The primary antagonist is a human who suffered from a DespairEventHorizon after [[spoiler:his daughter's death]]. Since then, he has been trying to "resurrect" dead humans. When the main characters arrive at the main setting, he starts chasing after them; the protagonists themselves are fairly normal, well-adjusted high schoolers.
27* SanitySlippage: A major theme throughout her games.
28** In ''Paranoiac'', Miki's aunt suffered this before her death, and [[spoiler:Miki herself suffers depression. In the end, she's diagnosed with schizophrenia and it's left in the open whether the monster attacks are even happening at all.]]
29** In ''The Crooked Man'', David obviously suffers this at least a little bit and has to try to overcome his issues.
30** In ''Mermaid Swamp'', [[spoiler:while Yuuta was under DemonicPossession when he went crazy early on, and without its influence would probably have been just fine, Rin and Seitaro both crack in some endings if things get bad enough. Rin in particular.]]
31** Similarly, in ''The Sand Man'', [[spoiler:Sophie breaks down in three of the bad endings.]]
32** In ''The Boogie Man'', this happens to Keith in two of the Bad Ends, [[spoiler:both which involve Helena dying somehow.]]
33** In one of the endings for ''The Hanged Man'', [[spoiler:Will's hallucinations seem like they're there to stay after his hands are destroyed.]]
34* TragicMonster: Many of the antagonists qualify.
35** In ''Paranoiac'', [[spoiler:the monster that attacks Miki every night is just her aunt Saeki, and all she wants is to make up with Miki.]]
36** In ''The Crooked Man'', [[spoiler:the Crooked Man is really a man named Duke, and he hates David and is really trying to kill him...and at the same time wants him to survive all the things that had driven Duke to suicide.]]
37** In ''Mermaid Swamp'', [[spoiler:the alleged mermaids don't mean any harm at all and just want to be given a proper burial.]]
38** In ''The Sand Man'', [[spoiler:all the guy wants to do is sleep, and stopped time and put everyone to sleep 'forever' so that he could get some rest without having to worry about work. He also honestly wants to help Sophie, and doesn't understand why she doesn't want to sleep.]]
39* {{Utsuge}}: More than being scary, Uri's games have a tendency to be just plain sad, frequently dealing with subjects such as mental illness, grief, loss, dysfunctional families, relationship troubles and so forth.
40* TheVerse: The Strange Men Series which consists of ''Videogame/TheCrookedMan'', ''Videogame/TheSandman2014'', ''VideoGame/TheBoogieMan'', and ''VideoGame/TheHangedMan''.
41* VideoGameRemake: Uri has remade some of her older games with improved graphics and gameplay, though the stories usually stay much the same. This includes ''Mermaid Swamp'', ''Paranoiac'' and ''Insanity''.
42* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
43** Uri originally intended for the ''Insanity'' remake to be her final game, but then decided to complete some projects she'd started working on, including ''Pedestal'', though others were cancelled.
44** Uri announced on her website she was working on games titled ''Haname'', ''One Case'' and ''Sudden Illness'' (the last of which she planned to work on after ''Pedestal''), but they've since been removed from her site, so they're presumably no longer in development.

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