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.
Dialogue is a Japanese Yume Nikki fangame. It stars a girl named AI and it plays like a traditional fangame where the main goal is to collect effects (called "Props").
Battle Monsters is an early German RPG-Maker Pokémon clone by Pascal Cattarius.
El Litri en Busca del Odrogoban Perdido is an hilarious RPG game made on RPG Maker by KrusheR.
A Blurred Line is a role-playing game made with RPG Maker 2000.
Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea -Reboot- is a re-release of Deep-Sea Prisoner's third game, Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea. It features extra content not found in the original game as well as adjustments to gameplay.
Flame of Rebellion is a freeware RPG-Maker 2000 game by the creator Lil_Lucy. The leading global powers are threatened by an unknown force, that calls themselves by the name of "The Empire". No one knows how, but they possess technology that is way beyond what should be capable by modern human standards and seem to be unstoppable. Even though these scary events happen all around the globe, some are yet mentally unaffected by all of this and live their lives like every other day, which includes the protagonist Roland. His day starts off as a normal school day, but since a lot of bus drivers called in sick, out of fear of a possible war, he is about to arrive late. When he arrived at the school, even his town is falling under attack by this mysterious force. Being one of the few survivors of the attack, he and the others form a local rebellion group, in their attempt to stop the enemy.
The sequel to Neftelia. Taking place years after Neftelia, the player character must explore and collect 9 rods.
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.
You are Odysseus, a homesick, tired, and moribund pilgrim in a struggle to find meaning in life. Witness his journey and tragedy as he goes to a foreign city in the middle of winter in search of collecting money to continue traveling while meeting and helping all sorts of sad, broken people along the way.
blooms is a Japanese Yume Nikki fangame. It stars two characters, Nonoka and Kiribana. The point of the game is to sleep in the bed and collect effects while dreaming. You always start off as Nonoka but can switch characters at any point. In Nonoka's bedroom, there is a music box where the player can access a sound test with unlockable tracks. In Kiribana's bedroom there is a minigame on her bookshelf called Little RPG. Most of the time, it doesn't really matter which character the player controls, since the dream worlds are the same for both characters and effects are even shared in both of their inventories once collected. However there are a few situations where one character can do one thing where the other refuses or is unable to do the same thing. Along with collecting effects, there are 3 additional menu types to be found hidden throughout the dream world.
Slip out of your monochrome room, and listen to the stories told by the girls of various colors.
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...
After "Witch's Heart: Bonus Stage", it is the third entry of the series by IZ (BLUE STAR Entertainment). This time, it focuses on one of the main protagonists and his conclusion: Sirius Gibson. It is an adventure game with horror themes made in RPG Maker 2000, story-focused, and contains simple action scenes. Although published as a separate game, it is part of the main game.
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.