Yume Aruki is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. The main objective is exploring Twill's dreams and collecting effects.
Notably absent from this game are aggressive NPCs, extensive events, and the horror overtones from both Yume Nikki and its many fangames. The game draws heavily on animal, tropical, and desert imagery.
nostAlgic is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. It is known for its very light color scheme and for having a generally more optimistic take on a Yume Nikki-based exploration game, with A's dreams being rather light and childlike.
Inspiration is one of the first non-Japanese Yume Nikki fangames. The game centers around a reclusive artist named Alex, who appears to live alone. His computer has broken down, so he has been reduced to reading books he has grown tired of and sleeping to explore his dream world.
Inspiration also makes use of character dialogue, which helps gain an insight into the mind of Alex and figures he sees in his dreams. Interacting with certain objects in the real world bedroom sometimes make Alex speak his thoughts on them.
A 3D action horror game from the Simple 2000 series. A young girl must survive a night of horrifying bug monsters at her school in order to retrieve her phone.
Amnesia is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame, the main goals are collecting effects and viewing events to try and piece together Toritsuki's past, and how and why she died. There are several NPCs and events that seem to give hints on Toritsuki's life before the game.
There is also a minigame, NEZU, that can be played on a handheld console in the bedroom.
Kind Heart is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame in which the Aitsuki refuses to leave her room and instead explores her dream world with the goal of collecting effects. Kind Heart has various childish, simple worlds with themes such as school or fruits.
Yume no Mata Yume is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame, starring Mukatsuki. It plays like most fangames, focusing on exploration in the character's dreams, but Mukatsuki can actually leave his room. He appears to be in some sort of hospital, and can go into other rooms.
Muyuu is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. It plays like most Yume Nikki fangames, focusing on exploration and collecting effects in Furatsuki's dreams. A unique feature about Muyuu is its multiple stage minigame containing herself.
Madoro-Mu is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Isokishi who, unlike most fangames, uses her bed to save and exits her room directly to the Nexus. Rather than having a nexus full of doors, Isokishi's nexus consists of three windows. One is nailed shut until later in the game. There is little to no sound in the game.
Hide&Seek is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame, where you explore Ann's dreams. Aditionally, the PC in her room can be used to receive mail, collect wallpapers and listen to music.
Yume Utsutsu is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. It stars a young girl known as Utsutsuki, who wanders through worlds in her dreams, where you can collect effects. It tends to follow along some of the darker themes with unsettling music and worlds.
-1 is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame, where you explore Sonoko's dreams, a girl who's falling asleep while travelling on a bus to an unknown destination.
The Guardians of Peace is a sci-fi adventure, your goal is to save Hastina-Poora from the corruption of the darkling hordes. This unique society harnesses the seven energies of the universe and uses them in their advanced tech to live in harmony with the rest of the universe.
Alive Arrow is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. The goal is to explore and collect effects in Fin's dreamworld, which you can enter interacting with the TV.
Yume Nichiroku is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame, focusing on exploration and finding effects within the Hirosae's dreamworld, which is ultimately the main goal of the game. A minigame can be played by interacting with the handheld console.
Musuu is a traditional Yume Niki fangame. It stars Rei, a boy refusing to leave his room. Inside the bedroom, you can either save at the desk, turn a space heater on or off, or sleep in the bed to enter the dream world. Uniquely, effects are referred to as Numbers, and allow the main character to match the appearance of the NPC the effect's collected from.