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
August 31 is a Chinese Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Huá Jū. It plays like most Yume Nikki fangames, except that there are some events that have dialogue with other characters and it has little to no music.
A story of fear and doubts about reality, decisions and regrets, dreams and darkness. ~ A psychological horror adventure that takes the player through the wide corridors of a mysterious estate and confronts the protagonist with far-reaching decisions. ~ Find your own path, explore the sinister estate and uncover some of its deep-rooted secrets. ~ Leave this waking nightmare behind you, or slide further and further down into the rabbit hole of the Labyrinth of Agoraphobia.
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.
Mewn is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. The game uses an item-collection system like that of Yume Nikki, but the game's effect equivalent, Components, are unusable. To compensate, the player is given various tools to aid the collections of these items. The goal of the game is to collect all Components. The protagonist is *. *, a spaceman from the moon who has crashed on Earth. Their spaceship is beyond repair, requiring them to find replacement parts throughout the planet.
Cranberry Dream is an English Yume Nikki fangame created by Gumitsu. It was made for Dream Diary Jam 2 in RPG Maker 2003.
A Yume Nikki Fangame about a boy who hides something in his dream world.
Set in a world 3,000 years in the future, a small-time thief named Lu Weipi finds his life upended when his village takes in Feng Lingling, a girl who crossed over from the modern world, and Angel Cake, a high-tech robot prototype left behind by the ancient Blue Moon civilization. To help Lingling get home, Weipi sets out on a journey — one that keeps intertwining with the fate of his long-lost sister, and slowly unravels the mysteries of a forgotten empire. A charming freeware RPG Maker 2003 classic from Taiwan, considered a childhood staple by a whole generation of players.
Meikyuu Ryuuki is an roguelike game. This was first shown as a submission in VIPRPG 2023 Kouhaku. The original language of the game is Japanese, but volunteers have created an English patch that you can download and use on the official page. This is a Mysterious Dungeon type and includes homages to several works.
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.
Regina awakens after having a disturbing nightmare. She is alone and finds herself on the farmstead of an arcane religious community. How did she got here? She really needs to get her stuff together. Anyway. She can´t remember. Her husband Erik is missing. Did those strange people kidnap him? Was he deported while the siege of her home town took place? Does the cult of the Swan have anything to do with it? Regina needs answers. Quickly. Otherwise Erik might be lost forever.
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.
Your friend Marie needs you. Find Marie.
Balmung Cycle Part I: The Messenger and the Heretic is a free RPG Maker game developed by Magi, inspired by Norse mythology.
Lenora Calamint lives with her mother in a small village called Pokeweed Hollow on the outskirts of a forest. She often delivers food to her stubborn grandmother, who prefers to live alone in the woods. While the forest is a dangerous place full of wolves, the village and her grandmother's house were peaceful. However, once a travelling, charismatic hunter decided to settle near the village and offered to protect it, the local wolves became mysteriously violent and began to attack the village in erratic bursts of activity. Due to these events, some villagers praise the hunter for his help in keeping the wolves out of their homes. The others can't help but think there's something suspicious about the matter. Despite it all, Lenora still has a grandmother to take care of, and so she wakes up to begin her routine of visiting her grandmother anew.