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
Usagi is an English Yume Nikki fangame. In this game, the player takes control over a girl named Umiko as she explores her dreams. Once in the dream world, Umiko can visit numerous surreal worlds, find effects that change her appearance (and give her new abilities) and collect Mementos, which are needed in order to complete the game. While exploring the dream world, the player is encouraged to interpret the different events, locations and NPCs he/she encounters to uncover Umikos backstory.
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?
Projector is an English Yume Nikki fangame. It's a traditional fangame with a focus on exploration and effect collecting. You play as a rabbit named Yisme.
Dream Journey is a Yume Nikki fangame created for the 2017 Dream Diary Jam. It stars MC, a nonbinary character with no real name. It's a traditional fangame, based around exploring MC's dream world and collecting effects. As opposed to a bedroom, Dream Journey takes place on a moving train.
Yume Nikki: Solitude is an English Yume Nikki fangame produced by Uboachan. You play as Kazenori in what seems like a hospital. When he falls asleep, you are taken to his dream world. All of the effects are available for you to use and there are only a handful of rooms to explore.
A non-traditional Yume Nikki fangame made by an anonymous developer. The main protagonist is Limbo.
You May is a Yume Nikki fangame. The game follows a young girl called Yarn as she explores her dreams to rediscover her past and find the items most important to her.
Melodia is a Yume Nikki fangame. As the title suggests, has a major musical motif. The objective is to collect Melodies throughout the dream world, accessed through falling asleep in front of the TV. Collecting Melodies causes more doors to appear at the Nexus.
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.
N'Oubliez Jamais is a Yume Nikki fangame, known for its unique, realistic approach to the dream system. As opposed to having a single, interconnected dream world, the player is randomly placed in a linear set of locations, the end of the dream depending on the choices of the player. The game stars Al Ree, who, unlike many protagonists, lives in a three-room apartment with his parents and cat, and is able to exit his home.
With just 1 year left to live, the terminally ill Wind I's seemingly incurable illness has endlessly vexed Heal III, the greatest doctor in the land. But one fateful day, Heal III hatches a plan to even the odds against Windi's sickness, and to cure her once and for all. 9999 Wind Is are better than 1... right? But cures for such ails don't come cheap. Raise a legion of mighty Wind I clones, expand your clinic, and send Wind I to work and on adventures to secure funding as you research and develop the cure to end all cures! Part raising sim, part board game-esque RPG, and 100% classic VIPRPG fun in Kiito's signature style.
An English Yume Nikki fangame created by MichaelaGlass. Keiji is a young boy stuck in his small, unkept room; unwilling to leave it for a reason he doesn't want to think about. The only way he can escape the room is by going to bed and exploring his dreams. Explore his unconscious to uncover effects and help him escape his reality...
Genso Nikki is a fan made tribute to the Japanese indie game: Yume Nikki Play as a boy trapped in his room. If you dare, turn out the lights and explore his mind. Collect effects to alter his appearance and powers, enabling him to access new areas, who know what you might find!
Nepheshel is an influential indie Japanese RPG developed by the doujin circle Studio Til with the RPG Maker 2000 software. The game was initially released on June 2rd, 2002. It received an English fantranslation by RPGMaker.net user Vittone on October 15th, 2022, more than twenty years later. Set on the isolated Confined Isle, the protagonist awakes without memories after washing ashore from the ocean. The island is said to be cursed so that everyone who sets foot on it loses all their memories. The game has the player exploring a series of interconnected dungeons in order to uncover the mysteries of the isle. Dungeons are intricate, full of traps and difficult battles. There are no random encounters, and every enemy icon on the map is colored according to the expected difficulty of the battle, so players can choose to try to sneak past dangerous enemies. The exploration is open-ended, with the player being free from the beginning to explore the island without hardly any obstacles except the perils of the dungeons themselves.
Re:in is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Hanatsuki, a girl who refuses to leave her room, instead choosing to peek outside. Later, you can unlock another character, Tamashitsuki.