Yume Nikki

Yume Nikki is a 32-Bit freeware game created by Kikiyama, a Japanese solo game designer. The game was made using RPGMaker 2003. The game is regarded as one of the most original applications of RPGMaker 2003…

26 June 2004 Free to play

Adventure Indie Horror

Yume Nikki is an adventure developed by Kikiyama, released 26 June 2004 on PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It is free to play. The main story takes about 3.8 hrs to finish.

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What Yume Nikki is

Yume Nikki is an adventure game developed by Kikiyama and released in 2004. It was published by DeNA Co., Ltd.. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on RPG Maker 2003.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story of Yume Nikki is mostly up to the player's interpretation. All we know for sure is that Madotsuki, the game's silent protagonist, lives alone in her apartment which she refuses to leave and which contains a desk, a single Famicom game console, a balcony, and, most importantly, a bed. Upon going to bed, Madotsuki explores her dreams, a surreal world full of illogically connected, smaller worlds to gather "effects." What exactly these dreams and effects represent in Madotsuki's personal life is, again, up to interpretation. Even Madotsuki's name, a name that isn't a real name in Japan, is entirely up to interpretation.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 3.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 5 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for MMX Pentium(R)200MHz（Pentium(R)II450MHz or above recommended） and 32 MB RAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Yume Nikki launched on 26 June 2004, within three weeks of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Silent Hill 4: The Room, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures and Spider-Man 2.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Silent Hill 4: The Room, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, Spider-Man 2.