I have recently been playing a lot of games made with RPG Maker and a lot of them have been very good. Especially the horror titles. I thought I'd share some of the best with you guys. Feel free to link to your favorites if they aren't mentioned here
All of these games are free so download links are provided.
Let's start off with...
I used a lot of time trying to find the original 1996 game but with no luck. Next, I set to search for the first remake called Corpse Party: Blood Covered made for Windows back in 2008. All I could find was untranslated versions and I even downloaded one but couldn't figure out how to make it work. After that I pretty much gave up, got a PSP emulator and started playing the second remake, Corpse Party: Blood Covered Repeated Fear, on that. Thus far it has been an amazing game and I've even made a Let's Play of it, which can be found
[here]Not too long ago, DXP was kind enough to link me to an updated version of the original. I've played it a bit and it's more different to the remake than I thought.
It feels like a mix of Clock Tower and Sweet Home and I happen to like both of those games. Horribly gruesome game. I really hope they release a translated version of the sequel, Book of Shadows. There's also a manga series based on the games.
Discussion thread:
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Next up we have Ao Oni. It's a really weird horror/suspense title about a group of teenagers going to a house inhabited by a monster. Lot's of puzzles and jump scares in this one.
For footage, here's a link to a Let's Play of it made by Pewdiepie:
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Here's yet another horror title, called Yume Nikki.
I actually didn't even know about this game's existence before Meth mentioned it in the
REF chatroom. I don't know much about this one as I haven't played it yet but it sure seemed interesting, being based on dreams.
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On top of those, I found a site that collects a whole bunch of RE related games made with RPG Maker.
The site is really cluttered and hard to navigate so I'll just link straight to the game pages. The games are located on the top of the site so just click on them to see more info. Download links are on the left.
[Download Page 1] The games here are mostly demos and trials but some of them (like RE 2D) are really good.
[Download Page 2] I just recently found this (I told you the site is cluttered) so I don't know much about the games.
There's actually a thread for Resident Evil 2D discussion, located
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That's it for horror games. I still have two "regular" RPGs so I'll go through those quickly.
Aufie's Quest is a humoristic RPG made by a Let's Player named Adkit2 who has since left the LP community. The game also has a sequel, Aufie's Quest 2: Bob's Quest but I couldn't find any working links for that.
Creator's commentary:
[link]Sir Eldric IV's Let's Play of both:
[link][Download Site]Last but not least is Pleasure Island RPG based on the crazy and fucked up animations by Sexual Lobster, namely the Manwhore series.
[Download Site]The animator's own site can be found here:
http://greasymoose.com/