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.
Your friend has died and you have to time-travel in order to save them. Except you don't really want to. And something goes wrong in the process.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Journey Deluxe is a fan game of The Legend of Zelda by Tropical Bird. It's story line is heavily inspired by Ocarina of Time, with many places being revisited. The game became somewhat infamous for it's poor quality, due to the fact that it was the first game by the developer.
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.
TK5 is much sillier than the past few games, and a lighthearted "back to the roots" of the series of sorts. Towelket ~Fury~ was meant to become TK5, but was cancelled and now Gaugau's Bride has its spot. There was also another prototype game called "Towelket Classic" or "Towelket Omote" which is only about an hour long.
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.
A guy named Akira comes back from the store and suddenly the world around him looks a little different from before: everything looks reddish and strange animals roam around. Will he be able to find a way out?
Withers is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame where you play as Yakitsuki, the goal is to explore and find all the effects.
Taking place somewhere in California, the game follows Sandra Richmont, who was traveling with her parents to visit their uncle. After an argument and a bathroom stop, her parents appear to have driven off without her. Thinking that her parents plan to stay overnight in the nearest city, Dusty Creek, Sandra heads towards there. However, after meeting two others who are stranded, she realizes that they are trapped and the city has some dark secrets...
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.
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.
Saint Seiya RPG: Asgard Chapter is a game developed on RPG Maker 2000 based on the Asgard phase of the anime Saint Seiya. It is completely freeware, and uses images and music different from both the anime and other games.
The main character, Kojirou, is an average student. Rikana Millefiori, a friend of his who stopped going to school, suddenly calls him one day to arrange a meeting. From there, they start hanging out together. Spinoff of the game Mix Ore, following the events before and after Rikana's route.
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.
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.