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
BlueSkies is an RPG game made with RPG maker 2003 featuring an emotionally driven classical RPG atmosphere and an immersive world and plot that you can enjoy!! Follow the tale of Skye and his friends putting an end to a destructive force that threatens the world of "Vyen". As the battle between the humans and celestial beings are far from over.
Game created for RPG Maker 2003 by Brandon Abley and Teo Mathlein with the initial objective of making a console-style RPG unlike any other created with the engine. Features 100% user-created content and no RPG Maker 2003-default game systems.
Corallo is a Yume Nikki fangame. The main focus is exploring "dreams" and collecting "effects", which can be purely cosmetic or make the character perform certain actions. Corallo focuses on Maya, a young woman stuck on a wheelchair and locked in a room. She can only stare at the ocean in front of her window and daydream. By interacting with her mind, the player can learn more about her and her past, and what lead her to be stuck in her current room.
Answered Prayers is a Yume Nikki fangame made by Klaufir in RPG Maker 2003. One of the more well-known English fangames, Answered Prayers is also one of the 'lighter' Yume Nikki fangames. This game has plenty of areas to explore, with little gore/blood compared to many other Yume Nikki derivatives. The game was on hiatus between 2013 and 2022 to version 0.03 according to the official website, but the site was updated the 5th of July 2022, with new screenshots showing the future version 0.04 and is now noted as a version in development.
In a world ravaged by disease, join a feeble, old man in his attempt to escape the plague, traversing dimensions. Black Astral is an English Yume Nikki fangame, made for Dream Diary Jam 2.
No Outlet is a Yume Nikki fangame that was created for the 2017 Dream Diary Jam. You play as Mint, a young lady who uses her bedroom cabinet to wander around in other people's dream worlds collecting "spells" and disturbing private spaces.
DREAMY IDEA is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Salma, an artist who falls into dreams while searching for ideas. The goal of the game is to explore the dream world and collect effects.
A Metal Gear Solid fangame made using RPG Maker 2003 that mixes it with The Legend of Zelda
Braingirl is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Mikan, an apartment-dwelling lucid dreamer, and is primarily based around the collection of effects and exploration of the dream world. Scattered across its areas are a form of currency known as CD's, which can be used at vending machines and other types of vendors.
Metal Quest is a 16 bit Party and class Based RPG game, semi-turn-based combat, set in a Unique world where metal music replaces magic, and traditional fantasy weapons.
The Jhonson Parable is a Yume Nikki fangame that centers around a man named Jhonson, who is also known as Worker #069.
Super Mario RPG: The Seven Sages is a Mario-series fan game created by the team ICU Gigasoft with the RPG Maker 2003 engine. The game tells about Mario, Luigi, and Bowser in a journey to obtain the powers of the legendary Seven Sages to prevent their powers from being absorbed by the mischevious Wario and Waluigi with the stolen Star Rod and use it for their greed.
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...
A life (work) simulation game made in RPG Maker 2003 (+ Maniac's Patch). Based on a game made for RaiPGMaker 2025 gamejam, and proudly made by surabayans(??) with a help from friends at Manusia Pagi.
Spinal Fantasy is a 10 minutes parody game of Final Fantasy 7. It starts with Sephiroth stealing the spine of Cloud, who tries to retrieve it. On his way he meets Tifa, Aerith and Black Mage whom also have things stolen from them.