#(they = the strange men series; witch's house; mad father; mermaid swamp)

[gloriousmonsters]

modern games can try and scare you with as many hi-res zombies as they want nothing will EVER beat the sheer adrenaline of running your little pixel character away from another little pixel character moving at moderately high speeds. all my free japanese rpgs downloaded off the internet folks know what i'm talking about

[kirvia]

Hey, do you have any rpg maker horror game recommendations?

here is my veryveryvery subjective list of rpgmaker games that i personally played thru. i probably forgot some sorry

(edit: just gonna use this as a masterlist of stuff that i went through)

playing through and/or on the to play list

forest of drizzling rain remake

lisa trilogy

in stars and time by insertdisc5

faves ever

OFF(!!!), mad father (original not the remake), ib, witch's house (read the light novel)

love these

wadanohara, omori, zeno, cat in the box, hylics, elevator hitch, any of the yume nikki stuff (my favorite is yume 2kki online)

like these too

to the moon, cold front, end roll, shtdn, hello charlotte, the gray garden, eloquent countenance, flesh, blood, and concrete, tide up, 8:11, oneshot

just silly

ao oni, superassfuck rpg, misao, too impatient

trashy but i like them but i wouldn't recc these to most people

yanderella, mogeko castle, corpse party

neutral/no strong opinions/mixed feelings; someone will probably find more merit out of these stories than me LOL I know i'm in the minority for my thoughts on certain titles here.

uri's games (mermaid swamp, strange men series, etc.), hello hello world, escaped chasm, angels of death, dreaming mary, grave of traumarei, underworld capital incident, hello...? hello?, alice mare, ayakashi akashi, faust's alptraum, pocket mirror

I did not like these.

savior of the abyss, alone, ann, the dark side of red riding hood

liked a lot but i'm waiting till it's released on steam to finish it

your turn to die

hiatus/dropped but I hear these are worth completing; i just experienced complications on my end

yuppie psycho, witch's heart, dweller's empty path

emphasis on Subjective please don't kill me </3 there are some other games in the #game recc tag that i've made that you should check out!

[chikkou]

what do you think were the best games to come out of that rpg maker horror kick that was going on in the 00s/early 10s? (games like yume nikki, ao oni, mad father, misao etc). also i love white cat thank you for your time

god this is a huge fucking question... i think so many of those games were just utterly perfect in every way that its hard to narrow it down

i think from an objective standpoint i would have to go with ib, the witch's house, yume nikki, misao, and of COURSE lisa the first. i would also personally count the rest of the lisa series too, as all the games were made in rpgmaker, but 2014 and on are a little bit late for the era ur referring to

ao oni is a fucking CLASSIC and inspired so many other games, but i replayed it fairly recently (on stream LMAO) and it really does not hold up very well. there are some really good things about it - the suspense is genuine since, outside of scripted scares, the oni can appear at random - but for the most part its a very one-trick pony, so i wouldnt personally consider it one of the best

mad father is teetering on the "best" line for me; it is a VERY good game, but i do think misao is slightly more interesting/compelling by comparison. the remake did mad father a lot of favors (though not with the new spritework :/), so if that version had come out at the time of the original game, i probably wouldve put it in best tier, but as it stands its just in "very good" tier

also theyre not technically rpgmaker games bc they were made in wolf rpg editor, but i GOTTA give it up to uri and the strange men series - pretty much every single one of those games qualifies as best tier for me. if i had to single out just one it would 100% be mermaid swamp - its a fucking FANTASTIC game and my favorite one of the bunch

[dapperrokyuu]

Fandoms

Just a list of things that have left an impression on me over time.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa/Manhua (assume show only unless mentioned otherwise)

Pandora Hearts (manga)

Vanitas no Carte (manga)

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (know vague novel stuff)

Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun (manga)

The Promised Neverland (manga)

Natsume Yuujinchou (manga)

Sousou no Frieren (manga)

Yuukoku no Moriarty

Kimetsu no Yaiba (manga)

Banana Fish (haven’t read Garden of Light, etc.)

Mob Psycho 100

Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood only)

Noragami (manga)

Death Parade

Akatsuki no Yona

Inuyasha (not and never Yashahime)

Naruto (obligatory because childhood; stopped around the war arc, lmao)

Soul Eater

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure

Baccano

91 Days

The Devil is a Part-Timer

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (manga; haven’t kept up)

Fruits Basket, 2019 (haven’t watched 2nd cour)

Black Clover (manga)

Fukigen na Mononokean (haven’t finished season 2)

Ojisama to Neko

Gokushufudou (manga)

Mononoke (the series with Kusuriuri, not the movie)

Erased

ACCA-13

Sakamoto Desu Ga

Boogiepop and Others

The Grim Reaper and an Argent Cavalier (manga)

Madoka Magica

Gangsta. (off and on relationship with the manga)

Gintama

Heaven’s Design Team (manga)

Hinamatsuri

Mars Red

Love of Kill

Under the Oak Tree (manhwa)

Dororo

The Millionaire Detective Balance: UNLIMITED

Mairimashita! Iruma-kun

Jujutsu Kaisen

Ousama Ranking

Golden Kamuy

To Your Eternity

Shadows House (manga)

Hiraeth wa Tabiji no Hate (manga)

Ya Boy Kongming!

Spy X Family

Tokyo Revengers (manga)

Lycoris Recoil

Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting

I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss

Raven of the Inner Palace

Bibliophile Princess

Children of the Whales (manga)

Howl’s Moving Castle (Noted because it’s my favorite Ghibli movie, Ive watched a few, lol.)

Chainsaw Man

The Fire Hunter

High Card

The Tainted Half (manhwa)

Kyoukai no Kanata

Takopi’s Original Sin (manga)

Blue Phobia

She and Her Cat

Nekodamari

Gokurakugai (manga)

Majo to Yajuu (manga)

Blood on the Tracks (manga)

The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All (manga)

Boy Meets Maria (manga)

Witch Hat Atelier (manga)

The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún (manga)

Fushigi Neko no Kyuu-chan (manga)

Nights with a Cat (manga)

The Apothecary Diaries (manga)

Games

Ace Attorney & The Great Ace Attorney

Pokemon

Animal Crossing

Kirby

Stardew Valley

Your Turn to Die

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

Undertale & Deltarune

Death Mark/Spirit Hunter series

Nier series

Legend of Zelda (Ive only played BOTW tho, so. Lol, seems fun!)

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Triangle Strategy

Okami

Persona series (pretty much just 5 tho, F.)

Until Dawn

My Lovely Daughter

Doki Doki Literature Club

TWEWY & NEOTWEWY

Odin Sphere Leifthrasir

htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary

A Rose in the Twilight

The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

Yakuza/Like a Dragon series (0, up to 4.)

Judgement series

Yomawari series (havent consumed Lost in the Dark)

Paranormasight

RPGMakers

Ib

The Witch's House

Alice Mare

Cat in the Box

Pocket Mirror

End Roll

Mad Father

Forest of Drizzling Rain

Mermaid Swamp

Misao

LiEat series

Lisa series

The Strange Men series

Ao Oni

Hello Charlotte (havent consumed Heaven’s Gate)

Blank Dream

Grimm's Hollow

Dweller’s Empty Path

Omori

Project Kat

OFF

Dreaming Mary

Lily’s Well

Other

Vocaloid + Adjacent Series

Shuuen no Shiori

Kagerou Project

Kemu Voxx

Mikagura School Suite

Royal Scandal

Shama series

Color series

Milgram

Reisaisakana

Vivinos (Youtube animator)

Alien Stage

Pink B**ch Club

Musicals

In the Heights

Hamilton

Dear Evan Hansen

Heathers

Venice

Hairspray

Mean Girls

Six

Hadestown

Buzzfeed Unsolved (Youtube series)

Ruining History (Youtube series)

Watcher Entertainment (Youtube)

Suspicious Partner (Kdrama)

Lawless Lawyer (Kdrama; not finished)

Weightlifting Fairy (Kdrama)

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (Kdrama)

Miss Sherlock (Jdrama)

Cherry Magic (Jdrama)

Everything is Fine (comic)

This list will expand as my mind expands.

[malocclusions]

Real fuckin stoked about all the rpgmaker horror games I've been playing lately 🥳

Aside from replaying Misao, I've played:

Mermaid Swamp

Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea

The Crooked Man

Paranoiac

The Sand Man

I'll play the other games in the Strange Men series too!

Games I've played before but not recently are:

Ib (favorite!!!!)

Mad Father (I did play it again like last year on Switch)

The Witch's House (probably played like. 10 years ago.)

I tried to play Desert Nightmare and Substitute Sacrifice Girl, but they wouldn't open properly on my computer. Not giving up on them just yet.

[pinkuboa]

Hi! I was wondering if you have any recommendations for games like pocket mirror? I've played Ib, Yume Nikki, Mad Father, Witches House and I loved them all and I'm wondering if you know any games that are similar to any of these? Thank you! :)

Sure!  Here’s some popular favorites for you to check out c: 

Dreaming Mary

Alice Mare

Blank Dream

The Strange Men Series (The Crooked Man, The Sandman, The Boogieman, & The Hanged Man)  

Mermaid Swamp

Fantasy Maiden’s Odd Hideout & Cloe’s Requiem

Prom Dreams

Imaginary Friends

End Roll

Seven Mysteries

Miserere

It Moves

Chelsea

Cardiophobia

Two of the people who worked on Pocket Mirror (musician Trass & video editor Asha) worked on Dreaming Mary previously.  Not all of these are quite like each other, but they all have some elements of horror in them with a focus on puzzles & horror (and usually have some well done plot twist)!

If you’re interested in more Yume Nikki in particular, there’s lots of Yume Nikki Fangames you can check out on the wiki!

Hope you enjoy these :D