Exploring RPG Maker Horror Games

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Published on May 31, 2025 6:10:21 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmgaAFsom_U

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Ao Oni (2004)

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Horror is not a genre I get to talk about nearly enough on this channel so today we're looking at some (mostly) Japanese indie horror games made in RPG Maker--from the quintessential classics like Corpse Party and Yume Nikki to the more obscure ones that don't get discussed nearly as often.
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CHAPTERS
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:46 - Corpse Party
00:08:44 - Misao
00:13:42 - Mad Father
00:16:56 - Peret em Heru: For the Prisoners
00:20:43 - Pallete
00:22:59 - Yume Nikki
00:24:50 - Re:Kinder
00:31:44 - Ao Oni
00:35:25 - Aooni The Horror of Blueberry Onsen
00:37:56 - Ib
00:41:04 - The Witch's House
00:47:34 - Dreaming Mary
00:53:23 - Hello? Hell... o?
00:54:58 - Bevel's Painting
00:59:07 - Devil in the Mirror
01:01:36 - Blank Dream
01:05:39 - Psychic Shadows
01:09:47 - Outro
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Download page for the game Psychic Shadows (click "detonate"): https://psychicshadows.carrd.co/
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Games briefly mentioned or shown via gameplay footage:
'Witch's Heart', 'June Bride Nightmare', 'Black Souls', 'Luna', 'Hello Charlotte', 'The Maid of Fairewell Heights', 'Corpse Party Zero', 'Omori', 'Fear & Hunger', 'Blood, Flesh & Concrete', 'Mogeko Castle', 'Space Funeral', 'Alicemare', 'Burial', 'Pocket Mirror', 'The Object', 'Heisei Pistol Show'.
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Music used (excluding the soundtracks of games being discussed):
Minute Darkness - Umineko When They Cry
Welcome - Silent Hill 2
The House That Grants Wishes - Phenomeno
About 10 Hours Looking at the Ceiling - Irisu Syndrome!
School Tour Guide - Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni
Klamauk - Ever17
Bodiless Night - Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni
Located main generator - Dino Crisis
Backbiting - Rule of Rose
Usagi Note - Irisu Syndrome!
Sabbath - Saya no Uta
Denpa Relay no Shousha - Subarashiki Hibi
Drittestock - Ever17
Track 3 - Tsukihime
Looming Dread - Resident Evil 2 Remake
BMG 04 - SaDistic BlooD
World of Envy - Shin Megami Tensei If...