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.
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...
Paranormal Syndrome is a psychological horror game created with RPG Maker 2000 by Yuuyami no Kisetsu (Season of Twilight) and translated by Tosiaki7. The story involves around four paranormal syndromes, each of them representing a Japanese urban legend such as: Hitori Kakurenbo (One man hide and seek), Kune-kune, Saru Yume (Monkey dream), Noh Mask.
Sequel to Paranormal Syndrome
Helen is a young woman who hardly ever leaves her home. Bored one night, she turns on the TV only to see a broadcast announcing an evacuation for her neighborhood. Locked inside, she must solve puzzles in order to find the key and escape her house.
Rhygar is a farmer who lives with his father on their ranch. One day, he needs to sell their cow, only to watch his father being murdered by monsters on the way back home. Now, begins his journey to become a Knight of the King in order to get revenge on the monsters who killed his father. Rhygar e os Soldados do Rei (Rhygar and the Knights of the King) is one of many free indie brazilian games created using RPG Maker 2000 during the boom of the engine in Brazil in the 2000s. Like others of its kind, it's very unpretentious and full of typos and goofy jokes. It became somewhat of a forgotten classic among brazilian gamers of that era, and its relative success helped the aforementioned boom of other small RPG Maker 2000 brazilian games, including two lesser known sequels.
A mimic tasked with defeating the Hero by the Dark Lord just because, Mimicry Man will have to use his one technique: show people what they want and ambush! A cleverly written puzzle game having the player present, collect, and combine items to complete the story.
The fourth entry in an RPG anthology series featuring women loving women.
While traveling through space, siblings Fukuro and Eddie crash on an unfamiliar planet. There, they learn about the Gourmate Cooking Tournament, which rewards the winner one wish. Aiming to win and have their ship fixed, they work with the people of Calpucca to make the best food they can.
Young Chi waits for Fumi to return home as she waits all alone. This game is made by nununu using RPG Maker 2000 and it was released on January 21st, 2015. The American fan translation group, Memories of Fear, translated this game and released it on December 15th, 2017.
Yume Kayoi is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. You can play as two girls named Kotozuki and Satotsuki, who stay in different apartments and can't leave their rooms.
Kaiketsu! Nekoashi Otome-chan is a Towelket spin-off. Has arguably the silliest plot in the series and a "manzai" stand-up comedy subsection with 15 skits. However, it's still a game by the Towelket dev, so it finds a way to gut punch the player.
The Sword and the Fish is an RPG Maker 2000 game created by Joel and Tyler Minty.
Towelket: One More Time 3 is a story-heavy adventure/role-playing game made in RPG Maker 2000.
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.