RPG Maker games

RPG Maker games are something i only really got into around the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but have very quickly fallen in love with. among my very first wa Yume Nikki and that was a special experience that i feel like you can only really have once; just the atmosphere, the freedom and the aimlessness, it all culminated into such a unique sense of comfort and escapism that i think i really needed at the time.

i got into some of the classics shortly after: games like OFF, ib, Re:Kinder, etc., all with their own distinct blends of horror, the surreal, and a tiny bit of tongue-in-cheek self awareness, yet with a paradoxically sobering earnestness. there's a kind of culture you can see when you play a number of RPG Maker games that i just that i just fell in love with so immediately; they can feel so intimate and so personal—almost to the point of feeling uncomfortably close sometimes—and that's not something you necessarily get a lot anywhere else; it's special.

i felt like sharing a few of my favourites and my thoughts and experiences with them ♥

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