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

During a 3-day workshop in Australia, a girl named Kana discovers a dark secret hidden beneath the manor she is staying at. Now she must work against time to save her friends from a fate worse than death. There are two objectives: Solve the mystery behind the existence of the wraith, and live to see the morning sun. Dawn is only a few hours away... Wraith is a freeware game made in 2005 by Neo Kuriyo, or Neok as he is known on the RPGmaker.net forums. It's a horror-based Adventure Game made with RPG Maker 2003, and was Neok's first game on the site.

Play as a robot catgirl named K0tya who is trying to help her Master locate the missing lab rats (ignore the fact that said Master's forgetfulness is the reason they are missing in the first place). Explore the research facility that you live in and find those missing critters before the morning shift starts, or your Master gets in trouble.

A game that explores one individual's mental struggles through their dreams.

Curse of Silence was an action-RPG along the lines of early Zelda games.

Theia: The Crimson Eclipse is a freely distributed, non-commercial JRPG developed by a JRPG fan for JRPG fans. Experience an epic tech-fantasy story about about the world of Ariathale, including 40+ hours of gameplay, 19 playable characters, sidequests and mini-games, multiple endings, and a classic ATB Battle System inspired by the Final Fantasy franchise.

Conexus is a short Yume Nikki fangame that follows a young adventurer who mysteriously awakes in a realm of interconnected worlds named the Conexus. Uncover the reason why you were brought to the Conexus, and learn about the realm's history along the way. Or if you don't feel like performing story errands, just treat it like a digital museum instead. This game features 17 unique areas to explore, with lots of weird things to see and people to meet everywhere you go. Unlike the typical Yume Nikki fangame, there aren't any "effects" to find here, instead all of the focus is placed on touring a fully open realm where every path leads to somewhere else.

This world has been waiting some time for your arrival. The tables of balance has been turned, and the fate of the world trusted into a familiar face. The guardian of zone 0 himself, The Judge. Your job is to lead him on a new journey, masterful puppeteer.

Mixtape is an English Yume Nikki fangame created by GumshoeJump. The game was made for Dream Diary Jam 2 in RPG Maker 2003.

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.

black rain is a free fangame of the surrealist 2004 RPG Maker game Yume Nikki. It is a collaborative project led by Murasaki no Yume, and anyone can contribute to it at any time.

Yume Dreamer is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 4. Play as a shy girl called HER who's in a strange world when she enters her dreams. Explore her dreams and experience them for yourself!

Cats in Hell is an English fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 4. You play as a cat and explore Hell. The goal of the game is to explore and obtain new skills. Equipping skills doesn't erase the effect of the previous one. This means that all effects can be equipped at the same time.

Searching the Amazon for the elusive razorback dolphin, Nora discovers more than she bargained for. Created in one month for Thalassophobia game jam.

Made in RPG Maker 2003, out in september 2011, pyschological story-based narrative game