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.
Tsukumono Yume is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. There are two playable characters, Kozuki and Amatsuki. There are several endings that can be gotten with Amatsuki, depending on how many NPCs are killed, how many times the player is caught by chasers and whether or not certain events were seen.
Yume Aruki is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. The main objective is exploring Twill's dreams and collecting effects. Notably absent from this game are aggressive NPCs, extensive events, and the horror overtones from both Yume Nikki and its many fangames. The game draws heavily on animal, tropical, and desert imagery.
LostMaria: Nameless Flower is a horror role-playing game set in a world rebuilding after the collapse of civilization. When reports of ghosts emerge from the isolated Beolb Mansion, several characters enter the estate for different reasons. Players switch between protagonists, fight supernatural creatures, explore the mansion and nearby town, and uncover the mysteries surrounding Noah and the region’s paranormal activity. The game features character-switching mechanics, cooperative support during battles, multiple endings and a progression system in which organs obtained from defeated enemies can be consumed to improve character statistics.
Hana no Chiruramu is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. The game contains various references to Japanese culture. You play as a girl named Kodama, who is either trapped inside or refusing to leave an empty classroom.
The Sequel to Nahen. Whereas the previous version was a direct panic horror where you escape from the mansion, this one has a psychological sense of fear as the strangeness of the surroundings gradually emerges. Its an RPG Maker 2000 game with cosmic horror and body horror elements.
In the director's office of the Momoyama Academy, there's an altar with 3 kokeshi dolls that under no circumstances should be touched. One night, two girls called Shizune and Akari end up trapped inside the school. There, they discover that the dolls have disappeared and when looking for a way out, they find a strange apparition. Could this be related to the wooden dolls?
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.
Legion Saga III is a fantasy game set in a medieval world on the brink of war. It is regarded as one of the classic games of the early 2k era, like it's prequels, Legion Saga and Legion Saga II.
Warau Warawau (Laughing Warawau) is a freeware story-heavy adventure/RPG made in RPG Maker 2000. Warau Warawau is a spin-off game in the Towelket series, mixing characters and stories from the mainline series with popular fiction, most noticeably Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. There is some turn-based combat like in the mainline series and the game takes you to many exotic, surreal and sometimes disturbing places. Warau Warawau became a cult hit and is still popular among Japanese fans. This is the first game to not use a mix of public domain music (classic, jazz, ragtime etc.), but instead it features the free music by Hirokazu Akiyama, whose music was also used in other RPG Maker games/series like Alicemare.
Older is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. The game stars Takashi and is centered around the collection of effects and exploration of a dream world. The game allows saving through the menu, but is primarily done through a typewriter in Takashi's room. Uniquely, the dream world is accessed through a projector.
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.
Electron Handsome Boy is a Japanese Yume Nikki Fangame. The goal is to travel through Luke's dream world to collect effects.
Yoru no Umi de Otsukisama wo Tsuru is a freeware story-heavy adventure/RPG made in RPG Maker 2000. Starting with Yoru no Umi the games are even more heavily story based with virtually no combat. It has the highest amount of endings based on choices you made throughout the story and which girl you pick for your love interest. Just like in TK3 you can choose between a male or female protagonist - the game more or less becomes a yuri harem if you play as a girl.