Popular games built on game engine RPG Maker 2000
Yume 2kki is the fanmade "sequel" to the popular RPG maker game, Yume Nikki. In this game, you play as a young girl named Urotsuki and explore your dreams, much like Yume Nikki. The goal of the game is to collect the Effects scattered throughout the dream worlds, which is also similar to its predecessor. However, Yume 2kki is far larger than its prequel and is still growing, as it is currently under development (it's fully functional despite this fact).
While playing up in the mountains, Claire Elford finds herself taking shelter from the rain in a mansion. Soon, she finds four other people, some bizarre monsters - and no way back out. In the company of demons, the five must figure out how to escape... and solve the mystery of the legendary wish-granting treasure, the Witch's Heart.
Danganronpa Another ~Another Despair Academy~ , more simply known as Danganronpa Another and DRA, is a completely released fan game created by the Korean game developer LINUJ. The first complete chapter was released on January 6th, 2013 and the full game was completed and released on June 11th, 2015. LINUJ later released a sequel titled Super Danganronpa Another 2.
Ib is a freeware adventure video game with elements of psychological horror released in 2012 for Microsoft Windows by the Japanese artist kouri, running on RPG Maker 2000. Players control the titular character from a top-down perspective with the goal of escaping an eldritch art museum. The game has been credited with helping popularize its engine's use in developing games without role-playing elements.
.Flow is one of the most well-known fangames of the original Yume Nikki, made by lol. It's one of the darker spin-offs infamous for its eerie atmosphere and copious amounts of body horror and hospital imagery, centering around a girl named Sabitsuki (さびつき) as she enters her PC dreamworld to explore her mind and collect effects. .Flow is one of the more traditional fangames that stays true to the gameplay elements of the original. Effects are collected in a gloomy, sublime dreamscape and the user is left to interpret the events and lack of explicit storyline. The only differences that seem to set this game apart from Yume Nikki is the more concrete subject matter (the deeper aspects of the landscape seem to have a more pristine resemblance to human body parts, where as Nikki's environment requires more interpretive thinking to analyze) and the inclusion of three endings instead of one. The main plot of the game is similar to the original Yume Nikki's, in that it's a sandbox game with very few exploration restrictions. You must collect the twenty-five effects to unlock two of the three endings and three boxes to achieve the third.
END ROLL is a regretful adventure RPG by Segawa made in RPG Maker 2000. It has turn-based battles, three endings, and quite a lot of optional content. A boy named Russell is made to take part in an experiment. His room contains nothing but a bed, a pre-recorded video, and a syringe. It seems now he has no other choice. ... A boy named Russell moves into a new town to lead a happy new life.
Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea is an adventure RPG made in late 2013. It follows the young witch Wadanohara and her familiars. After a journey from the witch world she had been visiting, she returns to her deep sea home to find it had been attacked by an unknown enemy. Wadanohara is tasked with repairing the magical barriers protecting the kingdom destroyed by this enemy, but fixing them shall not be the last of her worries...
Told in a bedstime story by an old man to his young nephew, the protagonist Valnar must face his new existence as a vampire when the experienced Asgar bites and transforms him. As Valnar struggles with his creator and soon meets Alaine who once loved Asgar, and after she was executed Asgar also transformed her into a vampire. Operating from Asgar's castle, the unusual trio confronts the past of the vampires and a man who nearly whiped them all out in a crusade, Vincent Weynard. Was he the man history portrayed him to be and what truth lies in a book the group finds?
The Gray Garden is a pseudo-RPG with a heavy story focus, made by Deep-Sea Prisoner in RPG Maker 2000.
Yatarou, the main character, is a handsome hikikomori. One day, he has a reunion with his former best friends Honoka and Hinata. However, a warped love triangle lurks behind the happy days the three of them spend together.
Recognized by many as a classic of the RPG Maker genre since its release in 2003, it has 50+ hours worth of content, complex plot and a growth system similar to the SaGa series. A non-direct sequel, called The Queen's Court, was announced in 2007, though it seems to be on hiatus ever since.
A Touhou fangame and hardcore first-person dungeon crawler made in RPG Maker 2000.
A traditional Yume Nikki fangame, where you explore and collect effects in Nagatsuki's dreams. It features vending machines that sell useless "lives", a variety of recurring characters, dark and obscure locations and unusually fast chasers.
Kage, Souzou, In is a Yume Nikki fangame starring Kagerou. The game is related to Atteiu's other fangame Witoru. It plays like most Yume Nikki fangames, with the exception of effects (known as "items") having the ability to be used in real life.
Rhygar is a farmer who lives with his father on their ranch. One day, he needs to sell their cow, only to watch his father being murdered by monsters on the way back home. Now, begins his journey to become a Knight of the King in order to get revenge on the monsters who killed his father. Rhygar e os Soldados do Rei (Rhygar and the Knights of the King) is one of many free indie brazilian games created using RPG Maker 2000 during the boom of the engine in Brazil in the 2000s. Like others of its kind, it's very unpretentious and full of typos and goofy jokes. It became somewhat of a forgotten classic among brazilian gamers of that era, and its relative success helped the aforementioned boom of other small RPG Maker 2000 brazilian games, including two lesser known sequels.
Reverse Dream is a Japanese Yume Nikki fangame. The main goal of the game is to explore Guratsuki's dream worlds and collect effects (called Images (イメージ) in this game). Interestingly, each effect is based on a certain way of dying, with each effect having 死 (lit. Death) in its name.
TK5 is much sillier than the past few games, and a lighthearted "back to the roots" of the series of sorts. Towelket ~Fury~ was meant to become TK5, but was cancelled and now Gaugau's Bride has its spot. There was also another prototype game called "Towelket Classic" or "Towelket Omote" which is only about an hour long.
Yume Memochou is a Japanese Yume Nikki fangame, starring Shiranaishi. The objective of the game is to collect "Charas" (effects) and "Treasures". Every time Shiranaishi dreams, the type of day cycles through. There are 4 types of "special days". The type of day can be chosen in the options menu using the object in the left side of the bedroom. Depending on what special day it is, important collectible objects may or may not appear.
Taut is a 2007 freeware horror game made in RPG Maker, which takes heavy inspiration from Silent Hill in terms of visuals and the movies of David Lynch.
Doraemon: Nobita's Resident Evil 2 (also known as Nobihaza 2) is the sequel to Doraemon: Nobita's Resident Evil, an RPG-Maker game that is set in the Resident Evil universe with characters from the Doraemon anime.
A foreboding tower haunts the village. An evil witch resides there and she seems to have come out of nightmares in fairy tales. It is said she was searching for immortality, but she has not stepped out of the tower since eons ago. People have been disappearing and nobody knows exactly why. All they know is the witch did it. Kahoro learns of this tale from their grandparents and believes the witch may have a cure for their peculiar illness. They run away from their home and enter the tower with the hope their nightmare will finally end. But instead, a new dream begins. Kahoro meets Tetra, a doll and the ex-servant of the witch of the tower.
LCD Dem (Lucid Dream with some letters removed) is a Yume Nikki fangame by Japanese composer Koronba (Myspace and Bandcamp), who also was a contributor to the collaborative Nikki fangame project Yume 2kki under the name n3. The game is known for its sublime electronic music done in REAPER and atmospheres in Inkscape, centering around protagonist Chie, a young girl who, through exploring the realm of her dreams, must find and collect hidden orbs and effects, which give her special abilities.
Yume Nichiroku is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame, focusing on exploration and finding effects within the Hirosae's dreamworld, which is ultimately the main goal of the game. A minigame can be played by interacting with the handheld console.
Dream Book is a Yume Nikki fangame, following Gorotsuki and her dreams.