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
This is not the beginning of a nightmare, but the end of a peaceful dream. Haruki Atou, an investigator who works for the Otowa Detective Agency, was entrusted with taking care of his junior, Shinano, who was found with amnesia. One day, Shinano suddenly disappeared. The last place where his whereabouts was confirmed, it was near the facility of the religious group "Supreme Heaven Research Institute", which Atou was planning to investigate next. Atou was involved in the terrifying reality of the Supreme Heaven Research Institute, but he soon realized. He didn't get caught up in it by chance. Will you enjoy "God's love"?
A simple coloring book program made within RPG Maker 2003!
A Yume Nikki fangame made by Gali. "8 comas. 8 of them within the span of a month?" A quiet Canadian town is faced with a comatose epidemic... one with no clear cause. Doctors scramble to find a cure as quarantine torments the lives of multiple families. You are a prodigy. A dream witch. Equipped with the means to remove nightmares and sleep paralysis demons, your career picks up when a new gig knocks at your door. You open it, and without knowing it, you have just taken your first step into a world of wonder, bizarreness, and dread, even for dreams. Will you find and stop the cause of this horrible comatose outbreak in time, or will unseen forces assure you, your friends, and your family never wake up again?
Conexus is a short Yume Nikki fangame that follows a young adventurer who mysteriously awakes in a realm of interconnected worlds named the Conexus. Uncover the reason why you were brought to the Conexus, and learn about the realm's history along the way. Or if you don't feel like performing story errands, just treat it like a digital museum instead. This game features 17 unique areas to explore, with lots of weird things to see and people to meet everywhere you go. Unlike the typical Yume Nikki fangame, there aren't any "effects" to find here, instead all of the focus is placed on touring a fully open realm where every path leads to somewhere else.
Zuriumak, a small town in the Irrizzary District (Capital Zone), is right in the radius of the district's large laboratory, called Zaryeth. On any given day, an unfortunate mistake happens, causing an unidentified pathogen to spread in a considerable radius, but not so alarming as to put the whole district in isolation. Zuriumak is within that radius, so the authorities decide only to make a quarantine of 15 days, praying that people don't leave their homes. Unexpectedly, the opposite happened, and the quarantine, which was estimated to last only two weeks, was extended indefinitely. It has now been almost 2 years since the alert was sent out. And it is not known how many people from Zuriumak have survived... One family, still trying to survive as best they can, is slowly beginning to decay into despair without realizing it. Karey, the eldest son, is still in his right mind, though he assumes not so much. He wants to do something to save his mother and sister from the horrible situation they find themselves in. Karey doesn't know how to deal with the situation... The only people he could feel safe with have decided to break the quarantine, but since then nothing has been heard from them until today... Karey finds something on his computer, something he thought wasn't real... An old message from his best friend, Haruzi. What will Karey do next? Will he try to leave? But he can't unless he gets the keys to the cellar door, which his mother is so careful to hide. You have two ways, Karey... None of them are good. What do you plan to do?
Almari is a black comedy surreal horror JRPG inspired by Yume Nikki, OFF, Mother/EarthBound, Undertale, the Legend of Zelda series, and the Shin Megami Tensei series.
Built for repeated playthroughs and varied strategies via an expansive roster of recruitable ninjas, a large selection of unique endings and secrets, and a mission-and-day-based structure, Beetle Ninja is a game that takes multiple separate playthroughs to truly appreciate!
Trying is a game about feeling. You play as... You. Trying to find the girl who cursed you 5 years ago, and took away your ability to be happy. Along the way you help some people, and make some friends. Made with rpg maker 2003!
Returning Nightmares is an exploration adventure-horror game, inspired by Yume Nikki and it's multiple fan-made homages (but with dialogue & easier to navigate maps). You play as Akira, a young man locked up in his own bedroom, exploring his dreams to remember the events that lead him to where he is now. But some things are better left alone…
An English Yume Nikki fangame developed as an entry for Dream Diary Jam 6. You play as Aruben who wakes up in a strange place, surviving and exploring his Cold dreams.
It's your birthday! You should go greet your guests. You're Pepper, the eponymous birthday kid. It's your 12th birthday today and you're having a party! The cake is nice, but you don't really like your guests that much... Also, there seems to be something important you're forgetting... and where the heck are your parents? Birthday Kid is a fairly short game about celebrating your birthday, human sacrifice, and discovering yourself. It's mostly story focused with a few puzzles. Playtime is about an hour or two. Warning: this game contains violence and disturbing content!
"Congratulations, if you're reading this, you're oficially nominated, present yourself in the City of spirits's three houses to keep up" Third and last entry in the "Time traveler" trilogy, created by Commodorette. Mediums, the ones born with a psychic skill superior to those of the ordinary population, they're few, hidden among ordinary people, why? Only they know that. It's common knowledge that these people are the target of this world's protective deities, who search and choose them as helpers, if they're chosen, they'll live in servitude and with the honors of the deity who called them. Homever, from the summoning to being oficially a "Medium", there's an inmense gap, so the term "Nominated" is also used for them. Mizuno Mai, 16, receives a letter informing her that she's been nominated to become a medium, despite not being interested in the offer, she decides to go to the adress anyways.
This world has been waiting some time for your arrival. The tables of balance has been turned, and the fate of the world trusted into a familiar face. The guardian of zone 0 himself, The Judge. Your job is to lead him on a new journey, masterful puppeteer.
Remembrance is the story of a woman named Kim who wakes up in a bizarre place with only hazy memories of her past and how she got there. Together with a strange, magic-wielding entity named Jesse, she sets out in search of what she's lost, as well as to complete the mission assigned to her that, in Jesse's words, is of the utmost importance. As she recovers and reflects on the memories of her life, however, Kim quickly realizes that some of the more powerful feelings and impressions in her mind, despite their nostalgic familiarity, don't match up with any of her memories...
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.