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.
Super Columbine Massacre RPG! is a role-playing video game created by Danny Ledonne and released in April 2005. The game recreates the 1999 Columbine High School shootings near Littleton, Colorado. Players assume the roles of gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and act out the massacre, with flashbacks relating parts of Harris and Klebold's past experiences. The game begins on the day of the shootings and follows Harris and Klebold after their suicides to fictional adventures in perdition.
Strange Memo also known as Strange Fancy in older versions, is a Japanese Yume Nikki Fangame. Strange Memo is a traditional fangame. You start as Maigo. They can travel to the Fantasy World by sleeping on the bed, and the main task is to collect effects scattered in it.
Yume Utsutsu is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. It stars a young girl known as Utsutsuki, who wanders through worlds in her dreams, where you can collect effects. It tends to follow along some of the darker themes with unsettling music and worlds.
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.
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.
Kudaranu Mousou No is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Kazaguruma and Jose. Unlike other fangames, Kudaranu Mousou No introduces the concept of linear locations. Instead of exploring the entire dream world at once, the player is required to enter worlds and collect effects one at a time in order to reach an ending. The initial version was created with RPG Maker 2000, but later (Ver.0.03) the game was renewed with WOLF RPG Editor.
Yume Noroi is a traditional Yume Nikki fangames, being the main objective collecting effects in Tsumetogi's dreams.
Unknown Exist is a traditional Japanese Yume Nikki fangame. It stars a girl named Kaede, who refuses to leave her room. The objective is exploration and collecting effects in order to achieve an ending.
Corrupted is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame, where you explore Amnesty's dreams.
Ryokou-chuu is a Japanese Yume Nikki fangame. It's a traditional fangame, but there are two unique elements to this game. First is that you can't wake up once you've entered the dream world. Secondly, a timer appears limiting your time in the dream world. You're given two minutes to explore and collect effects. The game ends when the timer reaches zero. You play as a girl named Sazanami, who is staying in a hotel/dorm with what appear to be her two classmates.
Me llow is a Japanese Yume Nikki fangame. Your goal is to explore Nuitsuki's dreams and collect all the effects.
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.
CandyRain is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars a girl named Minazuki and features simple dream worlds, some light-hearted and others utterly disturbing in tone and theme. Effects are called Candy in the game.
Recognized by many as a classic of the RPG Maker genre since its release in 2003, it has 50+ hours worth of content. A non-direct sequel, called The Queen's Court, was announced in 2007, though it seems to be on hiatus ever since.