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

Umbra is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Scott, a boy who gets trapped inside his home due to a storm. The main focus of the game is exploring his dream world. Umbra is the first game to use talk sprites, as well as the first to make dialogue an important gameplay element. The gameplay is traditional where the player is collecting effects, but with more puzzles and having dialogue choices affect the game.

A traditional Yume Nikki fangame, where your objective is to explore and collect "textures" (effects).

Unduhagge is a dream exploration game in the spirit of Yume Nikki. Join Mina Mori as she navigates a dreamscape full of absurdities, distressing personal memories and other experiences that push her beyond the veil and into the unknown.

Yume Petto is a Petscop fangame in the style of Yume Nikki. Explore familiar places as well as new worlds of all kinds, and collect all of the effects. Every world, characters etc must be at least a bit related to the Petscop universe.

Jasei no In: The Serpent's Lust is a short, linear game with a strong narrative. It tells a story adapted from a Japanese classic collection of supernatural and paranormal stories called Ugetsu Monogatari. This particular story is a very popular one in Japan, and has gone through many adaptations since its initial creation around 1776.

Dream Genie is a Chinese Yume Nikki fangame Qiū Qín is the protagonist of this game. You collect Virtual Objects to gain progress, the game's version of effects. A unique feature of this game is that Qiū Qín can be harmed by chasers in her dream, who will take off her Health Points if she is caught. Additionally, you can feed the strange pet rabbit Zabu with certain objects you can collect in the dream world to change its appearance, or release it and let it follow you through the dream world. You can also get four trophies by accessing some places in the game.

Remedy is an English fangame made by Isasapiens. You play as Hareta, a girl stuck in her bedroom. In the protagonist's bedroom there are two medicine bottles, one of which she must use before sleeping. You will be taken to one of the two main dream worlds based on which medicine you took before sleeping. Remedy is a traditional fangame, with the goal being to explore and find effects.

Ephemreal is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. You play as Sumitsuki and explore her dreams to collect effects.

A gang of misfits are brought by an ambitious director to work on a film based on their adventures, however, not everything is what it's promised to be.

I’m Scared of Girls, a small RPG Maker 2003 story-driven adventure game developed and published in the rpgmaker.net community by Moga (also known by the username CARRIONBLUE). It tells the story of Lamb, a young cross-dresser who finds himself in a purgatory-like dungeon. There, he must cut the ties to his former life in order to be reborn.

Muma Rope is an English Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Muma, a lucid dreamer unable to escape her unconscious mind.

Balmung Cycle Part I: The Messenger and the Heretic is a free RPG Maker game developed by Magi, inspired by Norse mythology.

Ava Garde was a normal blonde girl until an incident with a mysterious, otherworldly monster. The creature snatched up Beatrice, her friend, and then mutated Ava into a halfling with red hair and green blood. The next day, she could not remember the events, but she did recall her friend being taken. A portal suddenly appeared inside her home. Without any other choice, she went inside and into the Externus, looking for her lost friend. Iter Itineris is an English Yume Nikki fangame where you play as Ava Garde as you explore the unknown and bizarre realms of the Externus, the goal being to explore the worlds in the Externus and collect all the XenoVisions.