Popular games built on game engine RPG Maker 2003

The player is tasked with controlling the Batter and guiding him on his quest to "purify" the world of spirits. The player must take the Batter through the various Zones, collect battle partners, solve puzzles and partake in turn-based Active Time Battles in order to get to the source of the impurity.

In this Puzzle/Adventure game you must guide Niko through a mysterious world, utilizing items, characters, and the environment to progress. The life of a lost child and the fate of a steadily decaying world hang in balance, and not everyone—or everything—is interested in preserving them either.

A young girl with a hidden past sets off on an epic and mysterious journey in hope of learning more about her own origins in this beautifully rendered, classic-style RPG adventure.

Yume Nikki is a 32-Bit freeware game created by Kikiyama, a Japanese solo game designer. The game was made using RPGMaker 2003. The game is regarded as one of the most original applications of RPGMaker 2003, and the start of a possible new genre of games. "Yume Nikki" means "Dream Diary" in Japanese, and the game follows a young girl named Madotsuki as she dreams. The goal is to seek out and acquire all 24 'Effects'. The game otherwise has no plot, and nearly the entire game is left up to speculation.

A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

Take in the beauty of a magical world floating above the clouds, then take on a menacing race of vampires hidden in the dark. Ara Fell combines the best parts of Japanese-style roleplaying games with the best parts of western RPGs. The new Enhanced Edition features a slew of new features!

Space Funeral is an independently created role-playing video game and art game by Irish developer thecatamites. The short game was created using RPG Maker 2003, and centers around a boy named Philip, who leaves home to save his world from a mysterious corruption. Space Funeral is notable for its parodies of the horror and RPG genres, its crude art style, and frequent use of blood in dialogue, graphics, and thematics.

The city where everything is possible... But where it could also be fake.

Made on RPGMaker 2003 with the intention of being the happiest, least scary game ever made on that engine. Featuring: * 2 endings! * Over 20 dog breeds! * 100 billion lines of dialogue

"The cult classic RPG maker game that launched our careers Made in just a week back in 2012 In this game you choose to play as either Cantaloupe (Melon Boy) or Honeydew (Melon Girl) You find yourself in the outskirts of Hog Town, with your buddy nowhere to be seen. Ask around and see if any of the hedgehogs, hamsters, cats or dogs have any valuable info (but it may not come easy). Full of inside jokes, Melon Journey sometimes doesn't make much sense but it was made with a lot of love for all our friends and the people we admire."

Cognitive Dissonance is a fan game set in the universe of the EarthBound series (also known as Mother). It takes place between the first and second games in the series: after Giegue's first defeat yet before Ness's adventure. It tells a story of Giegue's descent into madness and the wandering band of aliens who once protected the Apple of Enlightenment, in a chapter-based format similar to Mother 3. This newly revised and rebuilt edition includes mountains of overhauled graphics, an original soundtrack, and many new and expanded areas to explore.

Created for Dream Diary Jam 5. This is Yume Nikki inspired game with alchemical themes. You play as Mori, an alchemist who needs to collect ingredients in order to carry out a ritual.

Brain Rot Excellence is a Yume Nikki fan game mainly inspired by Broken Bottles and Space Funeral. You follow Brianna Ruth as she explores her mind while in a drug induced coma, inside her she meet Nocebo, a strangely self aware creature who latches unto her and aids her in combat. To be able to wake up from your coma you have to figure out what happened to you and hopefully regain control. The game is exploration based with a little bit of combat thrown in.

Venture from the ocean of piss into a world against you.

Meikyuu Ryuuki is an roguelike game. This was first shown as a submission in VIPRPG 2023 Kouhaku. The original language of the game is Japanese, but volunteers have created an English patch that you can download and use on the official page. This is a Mysterious Dungeon type and includes homages to several works.

A Breaking Good inspired parody Yume Nikki fangame thats actually about Walt losing his steam account.

Touhou A Live is a fangame of Live A Live featuring characters from Touhou Project.

Uneven Dream is a collaborative Yume Nikki fangame founded by Factory and Nex. The game is similar to Yume 2kki (and, by extension, Yume Nikki: Solitude and Yume Shikki) by being made primarily of contributions submitted by a multitude of developers. In 2016, Uneven Dream underwent an extended hiatus until being revived in 2019.

Within an ancient land, undisturbed for ages, evil resides in a towering fortress... A young wanderer, without a name and past, has been forced to travel to this fortress by a shadowy spirit who controls his every move. Setting out on an uncertain journey, the nameless wanderer has no choice but to succeed in pleasing the spirit's wishes or die trying...

Jack 3 the Future is the threequel Jack To The Future, and sees the return of the personalized, home-built time machine! When a mysterious force causes Jack's YouTube account to be demonetized the moment he prepares to upload his new video, he sets off on a grand, WACKY journey across dimensions!

if Nil then is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 5. You begin the game as a spirit named Nil, stuck in a blood covered room with a disembodied head. Interacting with the head will allow to take control of Nozomi.

Any.One Online is an English Yume Nikki fangame developed as an entry for Dream Diary Jam 6. The goal of the game is to explore and collect Costumes. There are also tokens that can be found throughout the virtual world. When you were still in high school, the only social MMO you ever consistently played was Any.One Online. With new virtual reality tech and user-created worlds, you and your friends used to spend hours exploring, dressing up your avatars, and meeting new people in the strange digital environment. But that was years ago: even though the servers are still running, Any.One Online is practically a virtual ghost town. For nostalgia's sake, however, you decide to log back in. What you find is a surreal landscape only barely related to what you remember, a decade’s worth of unsupported code, scattered costumes, and the looming feeling that something's not right…

Deep Dreams is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. You play as Mariana, exploring her dream world and collecting Alters.

The number 1 Anti-Wendy's RPG game in the world. Bebder was a robot who had always enjoyed eating at fast food restaurants. However, one day he decided to try Wendy's for the first time and he absolutely hated it. The food was gross and the service was terrible. Bebder was so angry that he killed the employee who served him. Now Bebder has a vendetta against Wendy's. He wants to kill the CEO of Wendy's in order to get revenge for the terrible experience he had at the restaurant. Bebder is a cold-blooded killer and he will stop at nothing until his mission is complete.