[ed. Quite hypnotic. Click graphic to start playing.]
by Drym Shyuan
Fl0w is calm, atmospheric, entertaining, challenging and fun. It's a game I recently stumbled upon and it has completely won my heart. In this game you control an organism with basic structure. You move it in a world that looks like an ocean. The main objective is to feed on smaller organisms and grow bigger. But this is where the game gets interesting.
In fl0w, you discover a massive ecosystem that doesn't only consist of basic and small organisms for you to feast upon, but it also has some enormous and hungry AI-controlled creatures that will do everything in the capabilities to hunt you down. The world itself is separated into layers and your objective is to become the largest of the ecosystem by completely consuming the final boss in the lowest depth - The Abyss like I love to call it, for it is pure darkness. To move between the layers, one has to consume a flashing creature. There are two kinds of these harmless organisms: the blue one and the red one. Blue thing will ascend you to a layer above you while the red one will descend you further towards the abyss.
A feature I like a lot about this simple Flash game is the Artificial Intelligence. The developer has created a masterpiece in my opinion. In fl0w, you will encounter various AI-controlled organisms, some that look basic and others very complex. During most of the time, every organism is white, meaning their attitude is at a peaceful level. But should anyone of them get angry, they will turn orange, which means it's time to run. Fortunately, this won't stay for a long time and after you have evaded the hostile organism, they will lose any interest in hunting you and turn back into white. But should you take a bite of another organism, it may turn blue, which means it's scared and it's time to hunt it down and consume it completely.
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