Collective Unconscious

Collective Unconscious
	; Collective Unconscious's Title Screen
Release
Latest Version	0.2.0 (2024/07/16)
Creator	Collective Unconscious Team
Language	English
Engine	RPG Maker 2003
Release Date	June 8, 2024
Details
Protagonist	Minnatsuki
Nexus Doors	12
Effects	8
Endings	0

This game contains horror elements. This may include jump scares and/or graphic imagery. Player discretion is advised.

Overview

Collective Unconscious is an international collaborative fangame created for the YNOproject website, and is an online-multiplayer game.

Gameplay

The game starts in Minnatsuki's Room, where upon interaction with the totem present in their room, sends the player to the spirit world, in which the setting takes place.

While wandering in the spirit world, the player can find eidola, the equivalent of effects in the game. As of version 0.2.0, there are 8 of them. It is also possible to mix some eidola.

Throughout the spirit world, it is possible to collect book covers that can be used to illustrate the cover of the book in Minnatsuki's Room, menu themes for use with the menu of the game and tracks that can be collected by travelling in the spirit world, that can then be listened in the Treehouse of the Nexus.

There is currently no ending in the game.

Controls

Move - Arrow Keys
Interact - Z/Space
Open Menu - X/Esc
Toggle Speed - Shift
Eidolon Action - 1
Eidolon Subaction - 3
Gestures - 5
Return - 9

Plot

You play as a character named Minnatsuki, who lives most of their life in the spirit world.

Eidola

Name	Image	Description
Soulfire		Minnatsuki transforms into a burning wooden idol. Using the action button makes Minnatsuki turns into a lifeless inert wooden idol, and interacting with a creature will often burn and kill them.
Umbra		Minnatsuki becomes a shadowy figure. Using the action button makes Minnatsuki return to the Nexus.
Rodentia		Minnatsuki becomes partially a rat, with rat ears and a rat tail. Using the action button makes Minnatsuki transforms into a small rat.
Lumen		Minnatsuki transforms into a kind of jellyfish creature, lighting up their surroundings and allowing to float over some obstacles.
Youth		Minnatsuki becomes a child.
Spectral		Minnatsuki becomes a cryptic humanoid creature with white hair, eyes over their head and whose face is empty. Allow to see things unseen naturally.
Climate		Minnatsuki becomes a weather deity that controls the weather. Using the action button allows to change the current form, while the subaction key sets the weather.
Kalimba		Minnatsuki gets a Kalimba, allowing to play some sounds. Using the action button displays a kalimba on the screen that can be used by pressing keys.