Yume Nikki

Yume Nikki
The title screen of ''Yume Nikki''
Basic Info
Latest Version	0.10a (February 10, 2012)
Developer	KIKIYAMA
Engine	RPG Maker 2003 RPG Maker MV (Mobile)
Release Date	June 26, 2004
Other
Genre	Adventure / Walking simulator / Psychological horror
Platform	PC (Windows 98 onward) Mobile (Android, iOS)
Publisher	KIKIYAMA, AGM Playism, Kadokawa, Caerux

Yume Nikki (ゆめにっき, Dream Diary, Japanese pronunciation: /jɯme ɲikki/) is a freeware game created by KIKIYAMA, using the RPG Maker 2003 engine. The game was initially released on June 26, 2004, under version 0.00. The game received several updates until October 1, 2007, when version 0.10 was released.

The player takes control of a girl named Madotsuki to explore her dreams. The object of the game is to seek out and acquire all 24 "effects". The game otherwise has no plot or dialogue, and most of the game's content is left to interpretation.

The game became popular outside of Japan due to its unique presentation. Discussion of events and secrets such as the Uboa event spread across the Internet. The first Yume Nikki translation was made by the fan website Uboachan, and remained the most popular translation until the official English Steam release.

Versions

Version 0.10a

The current version of Yume Nikki was originally uploaded to the Playism distribution platform on February 10, 2012 as version 0.10a, roughly five years after the release of 0.10. This was followed by an official English localization releasing worldwide on July 11, 2012.

KIKIYAMA built version 0.10a on October 6, 2007 to incorporate bug fixes for version 0.10 that were released in a separate patch titled "Yumesyuusei". The download link on KIKIYAMA's website was never replaced to host version 0.10a, leaving its distribution to AGM Playism.

On January 9th, 2018, 0.10a was released on Steam for free by AGM Playism and Kadokawa. The release of Yume Nikki on Steam made the game more easily accessible to new players, since it no longer requires players to change their systems to Japanese locale in order to run it.

Mobile Version

On August 30th, 2018, an officially licensed version for iOS and Android was released by CAERUXLab for US$2.99, making it the only release of the game to date to cost money. The game was remade using RPG Maker MV, a more recent edition of RPG Maker that has native mobile support.

Other Versions

Besides the official releases of the game, several fan translations have been made, most of which translate only the in-game text.

A file archiver compatible with foreign encodings such as Shift-JIS is needed to extract most of the below releases. Additionally, a locale switcher or emulator may be necessary to successfully run the game afterwards.

More information and help with encoding and locale issues can be found on the Technical Difficulties page.

There are numerous translation differences between the Uboachan fan translation, the official Steam translation, and the official mobile release. There are also unique technical issues in all three, although gameplay is mostly unaffected by these issues.

Lists of Releases

Official Releases

Version	Language	Date	Download
0.10	Japanese	October 1st, 2007	Vector.co.jp
0.10 (Yumesyuusei Patch)	Japanese	October 6th, 2007	Yumesyuusei patch for version 0.10
0.10a (Playism)	Japanese	February 10th, 2012	Playism Internet Archive
	English	July 11th, 2012
0.10a (Steam)	Japanese, English	January 9th, 2018	Steam Internet Archive
1.0.7 (Mobile)	Japanese, English	August 30th, 2018	Apple App Store Google Play

Fan Translations

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Language	Translator(s)	Date	Download
Arabic	etrdream	N/A	Etrdream.com
Chinese Chinese (simplified)	Sarah	N/A	YNO Translations Github
Danish	RødGrødMedFløde	N/A
English	Uboachan	N/A	Uboachan Uboachan Installer version
Esperanto	Cloudythoughts Leo9	N/A	YNO Translations Github
Estonian	Takne77	N/A
Finnish	Cool Person miikka847	N/A
French	Carbonara	N/A
German	Harti	N/A
Hebrew	Sniperbob	N/A
Italian	GiAnMMV	February 7th 2022	Forumfree.it
Korean	lich65	N/A	YNO Translations Github
Portuguese	Hieshe	N/A
Romanian	nekhnona	N/A
Russian	fokifox	N/A	Itch.io
Spanish	Pats Voyager	N/A	YNO Translations Github
Toki pona	tan jan nimiala	N/A
Ukrainian	Roavello	N/A	Roavello's Github
Vietnamese	VioletNeiv	N/A	YNO Translations Github

Older Releases

Old versions released before 0.10 had been mostly lost to time until some were found by the #LaInvestigaciónYN team.

Version	Date	Download
0.00	June 26th, 2004	Missing
0.01	July 6th, 2004	Missing
0.02	July 20th, 2004	Missing
0.03	September 7th, 2004	Missing
0.04	October 2nd, 2004	Mega Internet Archive
0.05	November 26th, 2004	Missing
0.06	January 29th, 2005	MediaFire Dropbox
0.07	April 29th, 2005	Mega
0.08	July 30th, 2005	Mega
0.09	December 17th, 2005	Mega Internet Archive