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
Ichitsuki is a boy with lemon-shaped hair who can't seem to leave his room for some reason, he just backs away from the door out of his hallway. Poor kid, maybe his dreams will tell us what's wrong, in some strange cryptic way? This game is a Yume Nikki fangame. There are two types of collectibles in this fangame; effects and memories. Can you tell which type is good or bad?
In RPG², the world of Rpangaea is under siege by a wicked creature operating from somewhere within the shadows of the sinister swamplands. Only an RPG, an ancient automaton built for war, is capable of stopping it, but be careful: wicked monsters have long roamed Rpangaea, causing destruction and bloodshed in their wake. Three audit stones are strewn across the land, and can be collected to increase your power, though it is optional to do so. In fact, barring the tutorial dungeon, you can pretty much bypass the entire game and face the final boss if you know what you're doing.
if Nil then is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 5. You begin the game as a spirit named Nil, stuck in a blood covered room with a disembodied head. Interacting with the head will allow to take control of Nozomi.
Made in RPG Maker 2003, out in september 2011, pyschological story-based narrative game
Cyclothymic is an English Yume Nikki fangame. You play as a girl named Koji who refuses to leave her room, exploring a world she enters by reading her notebook. Like most fangames, the main objective is exploration.
This game is based on real events. Reality however, is a fickle thing. Play through one of many lost dreams where you must escape reality. You know nothing, and have to find out... What lies underneath it all?
A fan-made sequel to the critically acclaimed "Lufia" series, twenty years in the making. Puzzles, battles, and more! Experience the heartfelt fan-made conclusion to the Lufian legend!
Can I be happy?
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.
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.
Without a Clear Path is a collaborative English Yume Nikki parody fangame originally started and managed by Doc Saturn in 2018 and then later managed by Calci Soya and assisted by JPiggs. The protagonist was designed by Saibibi. The game's concept is that it is a fangame where every single world is a maze. It features contributions from many different developers, and a full list of credits can be found in the game's folder.
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
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.
Attero is an exploration game highly inspired by Yume Nikki, by Kikiyama. You play as Aren, a young man who finds himself isolated in his room. Explore his dream world, meet characters, and unveil the stories and mysteries inside Aren's mind space.
A action/adventure game revolving around Mina, and her friends, as she tries to escape her mysterious captivity.