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.
World Piece and Peace is a feature-length dark fantasy RPG. Each of the 3 battle systems require a different set of controls and tactics - it's up to you to grasp their characteristics and defeat the powerful enemies that stand in your way.
An independent RPG made by Crestfallen Studios that was broken up into 6 chapters. It gained a small cult following among the RPG Maker community. The story begins with a first glance at the "protagonist," Rhue. He has been searching all along "The Way" which is the name given to the world of this game by his childhood friend, whom was separated from him many years earlier. His travels take him to many settlements, he meets a very wide and varied cast of characters, and has adventures ranging from dungeon crawling, to stopping sieges, to tournaments and even some acting! Meanwhile, a mysterious killer wreaks bloody havoc, and dark things stir in the Reaches. As the Way's mysteries are slowly revealed, Rhue follows the trail through mountain and forest and fire—and learns more about himself and the world he lives in than he's ever wanted to know...
Saint Seiya RPG: Asgard Chapter is a game developed on RPG Maker 2000 based on the Asgard phase of the anime Saint Seiya. It is completely freeware, and uses images and music different from both the anime and other games.
Home Game is about the hermit at home. Explore town, find ways into buildings, die horribly, fail utterly, cash cans for change, regret your decisions in life. The game features magic spells, a cat, rude people, demons and death. You can pass through solid objects. You can help end this world. You may grow flowers in your garden, as well as feed birds. It has rain SFX.
Towelket: One More Time 6 Devils&Devils&Nightmares&Devils is a story-heavy adventure game made in RPG Maker 2000. The game is virtually identical to a previous Towelket release known as Towelket Reverse (Ura); the main differences between those two games are a handful of bugfixes and a different ending scene.
Towelket: One More Time 4 - Ocean is a freeware story-heavy adventure/RPG made in RPG Maker 2000. Towelket 4 is somewhat of an ironic Peter Pan + Little Mermaid while also being full of references to the previous games. For the first time in the series you have an overworld resembling older RPGs like Dragon Quest. It also has the biggest number of party members to choose from.
O Vagabundo is a short adventure game that tells the story of a boy who wakes up in his house and his mother isn't home. Not knowing what happened or how long he slept, he goes out to look for food until several things start to happen.
Battle Monsters is an early German RPG-Maker Pokémon clone by Pascal Cattarius.
Towelket: One More Time 5 ~Fury~ is a story-heavy adventure/role-playing game made in RPG Maker 2000 This game was meant to become the official game titled Towelket 5, but it contains game-breaking bugs due to a very rushed release, and (perhaps due to its extremely disturbing content) was removed from public download some time after its release. Later "Gaugau's Bride" was released as the "official" fifth installment later on and became a completely different game. By now it is allowed to show footage of Fury again.
Shibuya Marble Texture RPG is a free fangame of a Hypnosis Mic. In this game you have to find your old enemy - Jakurai and kill him. Before that you must visit the 4 districts of Tokyo.
Ruina: Fairy Tale of the Forgotten Ruins is a free-to-play Japanese RPG made with the RPG Maker 2000 engine, originally released on December 24th, 2008 and made but just one person known as Shoukichi Karekusa (枯草章吉). The game won the Grand Prize in Freem!’s 4th Annual Game Contest and its generally considered as a cult classic. The game was fan translated into English in early 2021 by a user named Dink. The translation received the blessing of the original creator with the conditions that his name remain in or be added to any relevant documentation, signifying that he is the game’s creator and that the game always be available free of charge.
Kusoge Girl Wattery is a unique and humorous collection-style exploration game that compiles about 30 mini "kusoge", roughly 20 previously released by the author and 10 new ones created specifically for this title. At the beginning, only a few games are accessible. By playing through them and earning trophies, more games and areas gradually unlock. The trophies vary in type and difficulty, adding a layer of progression and strategy to the otherwise chaotic and comedic presentation.
Alone - Cold Winter is reimagination of Alone - Eternal Nightmare, which is a RPG-Maker action-horror game, that was heavily inspired by cult classics like Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Project Zero.