Releasing next month on Steam
The recentresurfacingof the cult horror gameYume Nikkisuddenly makes a lot more sense. Come June 10, 2025, we’re officially getting a follow-up — and a 3D one at that!
As the upcoming game’sSteam description puts it, “The RPG Maker team at Kadokawa has paired up with Active Gaming Media’s development team of ardentYUME NIKKIfans to bring you this modern indie title in the form ofYUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-. This diverging follow-up combines influences from the original game and other recent indie juggernauts to create something wholly unique.”
It’s wild to see an RPG Maker title from 2004 reenter the world looking like this:
Crucially,Dream Diary“was created under supervision and with the full cooperation from the original creator, Kikiyama themselves.” It’s also said to include characters that have been “dormant in Kikiyama’s imagination (and design documents)” for more than a decade.
I don’t have a history with the original — and I’m sure I’d react to this new project much differently if I did — but I think it’s an intriguing next step. If nothing else, it’s neat to seeYume Nikkiin the limelight.
