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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Electron Handsome Boy is a Japanese Yume Nikki Fangame. The goal is to travel through Luke's dream world to collect effects.
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.
Nigella is a Yume Nikki fangame starring Kuratsuki, a girl unable to leave her room. The game revolves around collection of effects scattered across a dream world entered through the protagonist's bed.
Die Bücher Luzifers is the second game of German RPG Maker developer Kelven and is yet another horror game. While influcenes of Silent Hill and Resident Evil do exist in this one, they're more subtile and the plotline and world do feel a lot more unique, then in the first game.
Garenburg Woods, a happy RPG where you must stay on trail. Always. Never leave the path. Always stay on trail. Stay on trail.
Play as Zio Sam and his friends, hired by a mafia boss to eliminate his main competitor, Ash and his Pokémon.
The Better Place is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame, where you have to collect an effect, but also orbs that are located in the dream worlds.
In this game, a cat named Theremin tries to learn the magic spells of Polish dwarves. Wield devastating dark magic and explore an enchanted forest. Experience a day and night system which changes the nature of enemy mobs. Pick onions and potatoes and stuff, or make a friend!
Dungeon crawler RPG inspired by Wizardry and the Shin Megami Tensei series, among others. The game was made on RPG Maker 2000 and released originally in 2011 by Engawa. The story is set in a world ravaged by darkness where four adventurers (fully customizable, name, race protrait and job included) are tasked by the goddess Zofie to venture into the labyrinth carved into the great tree in order to restore order to the mortal realm. The game features challenging gameplay with a classic-feeling battle system, speel charges rather than MP, and some first persona, tile-based, good old dungeon exploration.