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

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…

"Well Seymour, I made it, despite your directions"

Somnium is a Yume Nikki fangame. Unlike most fangame, in Somnium you can't choose the daydream you explore. The game has no effects, but instead you obtain memories.

Unaccomplished is a Yume Nikki fangame. Yin Ming wakes up on his balcony in the midst of a thunderstorm. He is unable to leave his room due to it, so all he has left to do is sleep, and dream. The player explores the dream world and collects effects that change Yin Ming's form and grants him new abilities.

She Awaits is a traditional style Yume Nikki fangame, it was originally developed for Dream Diary Jam 3. Play as Noelia and explore her dreams while you collect cards.

Have you ever felt like, in a single step, the world around you changed, and you didn't notice until it was too late? Explore a collection of alternate realities in an attempt to get Marcel back to the reality he belongs in.

Flux: Spectrum (panta rhei/tempora mutantur) is a surreal psychological horror game created in RPG Maker 2003, about a psychologist who uses a device that allows therapists to enter the mind of their clients. It is the first entry in the -UX Series. Nima Chuutou is a police officer forced to take temporary leave because of her worsening performance following the death of her partner. An ailing alcoholic plagued by nightmares and flashbacks, she seeks psychiatric help and meets Dr. Maria Evangeline de la Cruz-Algundy, a psychologist who specializes in using a "mentally invasive" device called Panacea. Panacea allows the therapist to enter the mind of their patient and reach a diagnosis by surveying the mind of their patient through a reconstruction of their subconscious and memories. However, therapy using mentally invasive devices is a ripe subject of controversy in the 2030s and seems to have more risks than benefits.

Searching the Amazon for the elusive razorback dolphin, Nora discovers more than she bargained for. Created in one month for Thalassophobia game jam.

Someday is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. Itsuki Inoue is trapped in his apartment by a terrible typhoon. He is unable to contact anyone. The only thing he can do, is sleep. So, in the meantime, he decides to explore his dreams in order to gather his thoughts. What could be inside his mind that doesn't feel right? The doll hanging out of the window stares at the gray sky. Will this typhoon ever stop?

A mini-adventure game where the goal is to collect certain items in a village and bring them one at a time to the village shrine to open the largest building in the village, which is the northmost building.

DreamDayKi is an English Yume Nikki fangame. It was made as an April Fool's joke, satirizing fangames that are essential re-skins of Yume Nikki. DreamDayKi plays exactly like Yume Nikki, but with recolored graphics, different music playing in different locations, several new areas and an additional ending.

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.

Passing By is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for the 2017 Dream Diary Jam. You play as Wren, who embarks on a train to see where it'll take her.

A chain game anthology by eight members of the Vextro community. Developed sequentially, with each game responding to all previous entries.

Mind Reader is a Yume Nikki fangame. Mind Reader's protagonist is Appuru, a boy unable to leave his room, instead exploring a dream world through sleeping. Appuru's dreams are colorful and sometimes vague, despite the general lack of sound.