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
A Yume Nikki fangame for Dream Diary Jam 3. Tristan is stuck in his room for unknown reasons. In his dream world he can meet individuals known as Nightingales.
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?
Max is a teenager, who got sick of fever. He's having weird dreams because of that. Find the 11 effects and leave your room. A Yume Nikki fangame developed for Dream Diary Jam 7.
Jill the candy making witch summoned a cute little ghost cat named Mumu to help her with her candy making duties. One day, Jill decided to make soup and Mumu agreed to help. All was going well until Jill decided Mumu's heart would be a part of the recipe! Scared for his life, Mumu barges out of the house and escapes, but Jill does not intend on letting him go that easily... During his escape, he encounters various characters and slowly uncovers the truth that ties everyone together.
Capturing the heart of a Snes RPG, explore through the blazing deserts, cold mountains, tranquil forests and dark caves of Villnoire in this 12 hour character driven adventure.
Fifth Era: Fragments of the Holy Stone is an Italian RPG Maker game of the golden era from the same author of Theia: The Crimson Eclipse (set in the same universe of Theia after some centuries, it's linked to the hidden ending). This game has 12 playable characters (three of them are hidden/optional), two bonus quests, four unlock-able extra endings and one unlock-able mini-game.
"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."
Remnants is a top-down exploration game about descending underground into a mysterious abandoned facility.
Purple Game is a JRPG about a castle that has turned pink overnight.
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.
Sister's Dream, also known by its original name Art de Reve, is an English Yume Nikki fangame where you explore the deep dreams of a girl named Guretsuki. Guretsuki is a typical 19 year-old hikikomori girl who doesn't want to leave her room. Throughout the dream world are various effects that'll allow you to trigger certain events, or make exploring your dreams a lot easier. Be careful while exploring, however, for the deeper you go, the darker your dreams get...
August Ends is a short story RPG Maker game with supernatural elements that centres around cooking. It takes place over the span of a week in late summer and follows the monotonous daily routine of a woman living alone in the woods, isolated save for her trips to an abandoned shrine deep among the trees.
Friend Hunt is a very short RPG Maker 2003 game. The game deals with a bunny name Cinnamon as the find themselves trying to befriend someone. Who is out to kill them.
Made in occasion of Space Funeral's 8th anniversary, this is a Space Funeral fangame that takes place during the first game's time, but with different main characters. This story takes place in the wicked world of the claustrophobic caverns in the outskirts of Space Funeral. Everything has been transformed, and the perfect beauty of the world was lost. As Phillip and Leg Horse sweat and bleed on their quest, other legends are formed. Follow the tale of Otton, Ghoul from Skull Village, and his adventure inside the Treasure Grotto to find a fix to his insatiable hunger for gold... Will he be able to achieve what he desires?
Set ten years after the first game, you play as Lu Xiaofei — a boy bearing a mysterious mark — who gets swept into a cross-realm adventure after his adoptive parents go missing. Along the way he crosses paths with the feared Cursed Seal Tribe, and three girls who each leave a lasting impression on him. A short but emotionally weighty RPG Maker freeware game from Taiwan with a devoted cult following.