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Game	Walkthrough	Gallery	Theories

Effect Locations

Effects in .flow

Headphones

Put on headphones

Head right and into the Neon World. From the door, head right until you reach the glowing blue tiles, and head south. Continue on past the hand until you reach a white figure that appears to be head bopping. Interact with it to gain the headphones effect. This effect gives Sabitsuki some orange headphones. Pressing shift causes them to play 4 different sounds consisting of 3 notes, and 2 notes float above her head.

Iron Pipe

Use an iron pipe

Take the west door into the Pipe World. Head south until you reach two pipes, one laying on its side. Head straight to the left. Standing in the center of a ring of pipes is a bloody metal pipe, interact with it to get this effect. This is Sabitsuki's weapon. Press shift to hold the pipe over your shoulder. Pressing Z kills a character, and in certain circumstances, breaks open new areas.

Ghost

Become a ghost

Enter the Pipe world to the left. Head south until you reach the laying pipe, then head right until you reach a staircase. Enter the staircase and head into the apartments. From here, turn right and enter the first door you reach. Enter the purple door in the room. In the Industrial Snow world, head left until you see the first mass. Enter the door to the north, interact with the flower, and then leave. From here, head left until you reach a pole, then head south and into the staircase. Follow the path to enter the Plant Labyrinth. Head left and take the door to the north, Enter the next room and, once being teleported to a room with two heart monitors next to you, head north and slightly to the right and enter the brown building. Take the door to the right, then hold right and go slightly north. Enter the doors to reach the Ghost Garden. Head south to the first grey blob, then move to the left until you see a ghost girl surrounded by some flowers. Interact with her to get the ghost effect. This effect gives Sabitsuki a ghostly looking tail. Pressing shift causes her to turn semi-transparent, giving her invisibility - but not invulnerability - to the Kaibutsu around her.

Monoeye

Become a monoeye

Enter the Mouth and Eyes world to the north. Head left until you see two mouth figures and two eye figures facing eachother, then head north until you see a bloody eyeball between some more figures. Interact with the eyeball to gain the monoeye effect. Pressing shift causes the eye to blink. As of 0.15, the eyeball graffiti in the apartments blinks if you use the monoeye effect on it.

Diving Helmet

Wear a diving helmet

Enter the Ghost Garden World to the south. Go south from the door until you reach a bed of white flowers then go right. go between the two sand pillars surrounded by flowers. Go right until you reach the underwater area. From there go south. When you're in the larger area, go south-west until you see a sandy square house. Enter it and interact with Oreko (the girl working on the machine) to get the effect (you may have to exit/reenter the house if she's asleep.) Pressing shift causes bubbles to float from the helmet. This effect will also let you increase your friendship with Oreko if you interact with her (when she's not working on her machine) with the effect equipped.

Cat

Become a cat

Head to the Neon World to the right. Turn right until you reach the furthest blue block in the starting area, then head all the way south until you reach the hand. From the middle of the palm, head right again. You'll see two red blobs that appear to be emanating some sort of gas. Walk between them to reach the Heart Tile Path. Follow it along to enter the Hospital. At the 4-way parting, take whatever path has the most blood. This'll get you to the Bone Maze. From here, follow the path north and take the first left. Continue along to the second north path (next to it is a rounded white "bone" covered in blood) and head north. Go right and down the ladder, this'll take you to the sewers. Go left until you see a bright doorway with railing on both sides, enter it to reach the Sugar Hole. From here go left until you reach a different part of the sewers with a waterfall to your right. Go left again and take the ladder going up to reach the City Coast.

Go left from where you enter and keep going left until you reach a flashing rainbow door. Go left and enter another flashing rainbow door. This will bring you to the Rainbow Maze. From where you enter the larger area, you'll want to go down and left and enter the first door you see. Keep going as far left as you can (you'll have to go down slightly, the key thing is avoid going up) until you can't anymore and enter the door. When you enter, it should just be a straightforward path, follow it and there should be a white cat wandering around Interact with it to get the effect. This effect gives Sabitsuki cat ears and a tail. Pressing shift turns her into an actual cat which allows her to other areas via small gaps.

Broom

Ride a broom

Enter the Pipes world to the left. From the door, head south until you see the laying pipe, then head directly right and enter the door. Down the staircase you'll reach the Apartments. From here, go all the way right, and head up to the roof. Interact with the grey cube to reach the Isometric Pathway. Head north and take the path on your left. Go down the staircase and past the static room to reach the Famicom World. Follow the path along and head north until you see the Witch's House. Enter the house and interact with the witch to get the broom effect. This effect doubles Sabitsuki's speed, acting as .flow's bicycle.

Watering Can

Use a watering can

Enter the Ghost Garden World to the south. Head north from the door until you reach a bed of white flowers. From there go left until you see a large white ghost standing amoung a group of white flowers placed triangularly. There should be a ghost girl holding a watering can in front of them. Interact with the ghost girl to get the effect. This effect has you hold a watering can. Pressing shift makes it rain.

Whistle

Blow a whistle

Head to the Neon World to the right. Turn right until you reach the furthest blue block in the starting area, then head all the way south until you reach the hand. From the middle of the palm, head right again. You'll see two red blobs that appear to be emanating some sort of gas. Walk between them to reach the Heart Tile Path. Follow it along to enter the Hospital (not to be confused with the Alleyway Hospital). At the 4-way parting, take whatever path has the most blood. This'll get you to the Bone Maze. From here, follow the path north and take the first left. Continue along to the second north path (next to it is a rounded white "bone" covered in blood) and head north. Enter the open, dripping mouth. Take the toothy door to the north. This takes you to the Flesh Walls World. From here, simply enter the door with the black-haired girl in front of it. You'll find the whistle effect to the right of the room, next to the girl on the throne. This effect causes most NPCs to move in whatever direction Sabitsuki is facing.

Gas Mask

Wear a gas mask

Machine

Become a machine

Dharma

Become a dharma doll (note: Translations of earlier versions refer to this effect as Tumbling Doll)

Enter the Pipes world to your left. Head down from the door until you reach a downward pipe. Go right and enter the building. Go downstairs to the Apartments. Go right until you reach another staircase and head up to the roof. Interact with the floating block to reach the Isometric Pathway. Take the path to your right (avoid the chasers), go right and interact with another floating block. Go down the stairs to the second Apartments. Go all the way to the right and take the elevator. Go right until you reach a room with tables. Enter the door in the middle and interact with the painting behind the maid. From there, go down, go left until you see a door and go up (avoid the chaser). Go upwards until you see an upward stretch with blood spattered everywhere and a maid with a chainsaw at the end of it. Interact with the bloody chainsaw to obtain the effect. This effect remove Sabitsuki's limbs and slows her movements. Pressing shift causes her to fall to the ground on her belly.

Slime

Become slime

Follow the instructions for the Cat effect, up until you enter the sewers. When you enter the sewers, go left. On the very next screen, walk onto the gray platform closest to the bottom of the screen and go right. This will bring you to an area with a giant slime with an entrance beside it. Go up the ladder and take the path to the right. This will bring you to the Rusty Pier. From here, go: Right, Up, Right as far as you can, Down, Left, Down again and Left. Interact with the moving green slime. This effect turns Sabitsuki into a slime girl. Pressing shift causes her to melt into a puddle then gain form again.

Arms

Increases the number of arms

Enter the Neon World to your right. Turn right until you reach the furthest blue block in the starting area, then head all the way south until you reach the hand. From the middle of the palm, head right again. You'll see two red blobs that appear to be emanating some sort of gas. Walk between them to reach the Heart Tile Path. Follow it along to enter the Hospital. At the 4-way parting, take whatever path has the least blood splatters (you will have to do this 3 times). This'll bring you to a room with a bed and a broken monitor. Interact with the monitor on the wall. Interact with the large computer monitor in the Underwater area.

In the Geometry World, go down and right by a small cross-shaped sculpture and go into the middle of a cluster of cylinders. Keep going up to enter the Microscopic World. Interact with a snowflake-like thing to move outside the path. From here, go left until you see another path with halls jutting out at the top and right of it. Go north of that until you see an arm in the middle of another path. Interact with it. This effect teleports Sabitsuki back to the Nexus when the action button is pressed.

Viscera

Viscera falls out

Follow the Whistle Effect guide to get to the Flesh Walls world. From here, head south and go either left or right as this room loops. Head north into the door. Head all the way north until you get to a split. Take the door on the right. Head south, take the left path and then the right path and enter the door there. You'll see tentacle-like things sprouting from the ground with another split in the path. Take the door to the right, with the open mouths. Head north and slightly to the left, then at the junction head south. A little to the north, you'll see two rusty circles. Enter them and quickly wrap around it and enter it from the south (entering without wrapping around causes you to simply come back out as normal). This'll give you access to the door in front of you. Enter the door and interact with the dead body directly to the north to receive the viscera effect. Pressing shift while in use causes Sabitsuki to attempt (and fail) to stuff her organs back into her body.

Psychedelic

The line you have to interact with to get to the effect

Become psychedelic

Follow the instructions for the Cat effect. Once you enter the flashing rainbow door, turn back and enter it again. go right until you see a strand on the wall that's noticeably different from the others. Interact with it to reach the rooftops of the Psychedelic Streets. Interact with the following NPCs to reach the effect: blue, pink, blue, pink (top one), blue (bottom one), blue again (bottom) and finally the multi-coloured one to obtain the effect. This changes Sabitsuki's colours into bright ones when you press shift.

Handgun

Carry a handgun

• The path to getting this effect is slightly different between version 0.19 and earlier versions.

Ver. 0.192

Enter the Pipes world to your left. Head down from the door until you reach a downward pipe. Go right and enter the building. Go downstairs to the Apartments. Go right until you reach another staircase and head up to the roof. Interact with the floating block to reach the Isometric Pathway. Take the path to your right (avoid the chasers), go right and interact with another floating block. Go down the stairs to the second Apartments. Go all the way to the right and take the elevator. Go right until you exit the building. From here, go left and enter the wide alleway. Entering, go left, take the first path up, go left, up again and right. Interact with the bin to get the effect.

Ealier Versions

Enter the Pipes world to your left. Head down from the door until you reach a downward pipe. Go right and enter the building. Go downstairs to the Apartments. Go right until you reach another staircase and head up to the roof. Interact with the floating block to reach the Isometric Pathway. Take the path to your right (avoid the chasers), go right and interact with another floating block. Go down the stairs to the second Apartments. Go all the way to the right and take the elevator. Go right until you exit the building. Go left and enter the white building. Go up, enter the doorway on the far left at the back to enter the Meatworks corridor. Go up and take the leftwards path. Interact with the bin to get the handgun effect. Pressing shift has Sabitsuki fire the gun into the air. This causes NPCs to move away from you. You cannot use this effect to attack enemies.

Corpse

Become a corpse

Black Hood

Wear a black hood

Follow the directions for the Handgun effect. However, when you're outside of the Sugar Hole, go left and enter the Hospital (white building). Go up and enter the room to the right of the bloody arrow on the wall. Interact with the hoodie on the bed to get the effect. This effect dresses Sabitsuki in a hoodie. Pressing shift lowers the hood, pressing shift again raises the hoodie up.

School Uniform

Wear a school uniform

Head to the Neon World to the right. Turn right until you reach the furthest blue block in the starting area, then head all the way south until you reach the hand. From the middle of the palm, head right again. You'll see two red blobs that appear to be emanating some sort of gas. Walk between them to reach the Heart Tile Path. Follow it along to enter the Hospital. At the 4-way parting, take whatever path has the most blood. This'll get you to the Bone Maze. From here, follow the path north and take the first left. Continue along to the second north path (next to it is a rounded white "bone" covered in blood) and head north. Go right and down the ladder, this'll take you to the sewers. Go left and get onto the grey platform at the bottom of the screen. Go right to the area with the giant slime. Go up the ladder beside it and go right.

This'll take you to the Rusty Pier. From the entrance, go: Right, Up, Right as far as you can, Down, first Right, Up, Right and Up again. Interact with the streetlamp. Go left and enter the stairway. Follow the stairway. Go up when you exit and enter the School. Enter the doorway to your right. You can go either left/right and enter the bottom door. Go down the staircase in the middle of the hall. Enter the doorway to either your left or right. Go up and enter the doorway at the bottom of the middle of your screen. This should bring you to a dark classroom. Go left and enter the door beside several grey boxes. Interact with the smiling Sabitsuki in the middle of the room. This effect dresses Sabitsuki in a school uniform. This is a purely cosmetic effect, pressing shift does nothing.

Television

Become a television

Follow the Broom Effect guide to get to the Famicom World. Instead of heading north to the Witch's House, go south until you barely see the well. Worm through the path in the trees on the right to the next screen. Follow the path along until you see a grassy area. Just before that there's a grey stone block, next to the water to the right of the screen. Enter that and head north and slightly left, heading down the staircase. This'll take you to the dungeons. Once in the dungeon, follow the rooms until the first split in the path. Take the south path, enter the staircase, then take the door to the right. In the center of the room you'll find a TV. Interacting with it will give you the television effect. Pressing shift causes the TV to turn on and either a face or a random image to display.

Plant

Become a plant

Tattoo

Engrave a tattoo

Follow the guide for the School Uniform effect to reach the school. When you're in the hallway that takes you down, take the stairs going up instead. Enter the door at either end of the hall. Go up and take the stairs in the middle of the screen. Go left and interact with Smile (the boy on the roof). This effect gives Sabitsuki red + signs for eyes.

Dress

Wear a dress

Empty Boxes

Once you complete the game as Sabitsuki, enter the dream world, drop your effects into the computer (by hitting the center sparkle) and begin the game as Rust, a paler version of Sabitsuki. As Rust, you have no access to the previous effects. However, you do gain access to 3 previously closed off areas. Gaining the Empty Boxes - an unfilled GET item - gives you access to the previously unattainable True Ending.

School

To be added

Hospital

To be added

Oreko

To be added

Events

.flow has a few events that, when triggered, typically increase Sabitsuki's Erosion Counter. This counter is only visible through looking at Little Sabitsuki in the Parade Ward of the corrupted Children's Hospital, and is theorized to represent the amount of damage Rust has done to Sabitsuki. Increasing your Erosion Counter has visual effects besides Little Sabitsuki, such as bloodstains appearing on your floor (and later, your walls) and strange objects attached to Sabitsuki's monitor to appear. Once the Erosion Counter has reached a certain amount of points (where the largest bloodstain is visible on Sabitsuki's floor), interacting with the Little Sabitsuki in the hospital with give you a new menu theme, the Rust Menu.

Apartments Stairway

Eat some cake from the Sugar Hole. The specific details are fuzzy; it's theorized to require 10 cakes, though some have gotten this with only 5 cakes. It may or may not require the Sugar Menu to work. Interact with both the Sugar Maids in the cafe, the one at the counter and the one in the back rooms. Then, leave the Sugar Hole back to the elevator. Take the elevator back up to the Apartments, and the cone in front of the staircase will be gone. Head up the staircase to see a scene of Sabitsuki and an unknown black haired girl sitting at a table in the middle of the room together. There's no door to exit this area, and Sabitsuki is unable to interact with anything.

Bar Kaibutsu

When visiting the Sugar Hole, sometimes a normal Kaibutsu will be seated in the furthermost stool. If you attempt to hit them with your pipe, they will immediately kill you with their own weapon. The scene shows Sabitsuki's mutilated corpse in an all-black room, and a door slowly closing on you.

Bloody Room

Enter the sewers and go to the right side where the giant slime is. Go up the ladder and check the grates to the north of you - if there is only one, exit and enter again. If there are two, interact with the grate and head back outside. The slime will have changed colour. Move past the slime and you'll get sucked in and teleported to a long corridor. Enter the room at the end to see a giant white room painted in blood. Attempting to enter the room causes any effects in use to be cancelled and the screen to turn to static briefly. Soon, Sabitsuki will start bursting apart from the inside, and appears to grin while she dies.

Dying Girls

Entrance to the Dying girls event (before/after you hit it w/ the Iron Pipe)

Go to the Apartments that lead to the Sugar Hole cafe. There is a random chance that a face will be above a puddle of blood in the hallway. Equip your Iron Pipe and hit it. Enter into a room very much like the Flesh Walls. Go right and enter the doorway into a room full of black-haired girls. You can either kill them or use the Whistle effect to make them move out of your way. Clear a path to the doorway in the bottom right corner and enter it. You will get stuck in a room filled with the same black-haired NPCs with a large one stuck to the wall. One by one, the smaller ones explode in a pile of viscera before the large one's stomach splits open. Attempting to interact with her will cause the screen to fade out into static and you will be forced to wake up. This event adds points to your erosion counter.

Glitch Event

An event that can only be seen in versions 0.18 and onwards. Go to the FC Dungeon (follow the path for the Television effect). Take the stairway to the left from the door that you'd find the Television effect, take the next stairway upwards which you bring you to a room. Interact with the top-left corner of the wall. If an empty text box pops up, the event has been activated. As you try to leave, the screen will glitch out more and more as you go. You will eventually be taken back to the room where the event was activated. Keep interacting with the wall in the top-left corner. The room will glitch out the more you interact with the wall and the screen will eventuallly completely glitch/ fade out to black while a loud noise blares in the background, after which you will be forced awake.

Rainbow Flower

The Watering Can effect is needed for this event.

Go to the Psychedelic Streets via the City Coast (ground level). Go direct south from where you enter until you see two rainbow-coloured pillars. Go inbetween them into a room full of flowers. There will be a wilted flower directly in front of you. Use the Watering Can event to make the flower bloom. Interact with the flower to activate an event where the game screen fills with swirls that flash/change colour. You can exit the event by pressing Z or Enter.

Sweet Sugar Girls

Enter the Psychedelic Streets at ground-level. You'll find a building with two love-heart signs out the front of it. Enter it to reach what appears to be a brothel. Head through the left door. You may or may not have to kill the black monster guarding the last door, enter it and view the door inside - afterwards, go back to the hall. Enter the door with a maid and absolutely no music. Interact with her until you get transported to a dark red and black maze. Walk around until you find a melted puddle of sugar. Interact with it and follow along the hall. You'll see a black haired girl (possibly the same girl as in the apartments stairway) standing on the edge of a cliff, with arms reaching down to her. You can't reach her or interact with her in any way.

Video Guide

A visual guide for all 24 effects, plus the three Empty Boxes collected as Rust.

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