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).
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.
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...
The Gray Garden is a pseudo-RPG with a heavy story focus, made by Deep-Sea Prisoner in RPG Maker 2000.
Witch’s Heart -Bonus Stage- is the continuation of Witch’s Heart. It’s an adventure game by IZ (BLUE STAR Entertainment) made in RPG Maker 2000, story-focused, with some light action elements.
A traditional Yume Nikki fangame, where you explore and collect effects in Nagatsuki's dreams. It features vending machines that sell useless "lives", a variety of recurring characters, dark and obscure locations and unusually fast chasers.
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.
Nothing Bad Ever Happens to me, is a short, 5 ~ 10min. story about a few girls who don't really get along. Katrina, our heroine, is a popular girl who has had great luck in her life thus far. She's at the top of her class, her family is happy... she probably couldn't ask for a more perfect life! One day, a few of her classmates suggest they walk home together. Might not be a bad idea to humor the lower-class. What could go wrong?
You play the role of a young boy named Mike who goes to his friend's house for a party. Everyone's having a fun time until one of them tells the story of Killer Bear, a killer who's still on the loose...
Kitarou wakes up in his house, dazed and confused about his current situation. He wanders around his house, collecting scraps of paper and remembering a girl named Shihori. As he progresses, he slowly realizes that there's something sinister going on.
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.
"Today, as usual." This is a linear atmospheric game. There are no loud scares, so please use headphones! Some grotesque imagery is present, if it's not to your liking please refrain from playing.
Remegeton is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Harutsuki, a young girl who has locked herself in. Remegeton focuses on collecting effects and exploration, like most traditional Yume Nikki fangames.
Alice is a girl who lives in the Land of Time, in the care of a boy named Tiska. One day, when the hands of the Great Clock are mysteriously scattered, the Land of Life comes to a standstill. Though it's Tiska's job as a warden of time to recover the hands, Alice can't help but be curious...
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.
Acatalepsy is a Japanese Yume Nikki fangame. Similar to most fangames, the player must explore Naoto's dreams to collect effects and piece together his history and current self. The game's readme warns squeamish viewers of "shocking" and "grotesque" content and color schemes. Much of the music used is disorienting and eerie, using an abstract, chiptune-esque style.
Doraemon: Nobita's Resident Evil 2 (also known as Nobihaza 2) is the sequel to Doraemon: Nobita's Resident Evil, an RPG-Maker game that is set in the Resident Evil universe with characters from the Doraemon anime.
An April Fools parody game based on The Gray Garden. It plays much like the original The Gray Garden, with the same graphics, save for one difference - all of the characters are the opposite gender of what they were in The Gray Garden.
A young man named Kantarou wakes up in a hospital bed with amnesia. He has no memory of what happened to him and is confronted by a mysterious girl who makes a claim about their "relationship". Who is this girl and why is she pretending to be someone she isn't?
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.
A mysterious RPG in which children in "Saihate-cho" fight with each other.