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
Tales From Toppletown is a short comedy RPG. As a reclusive critter living in the woods, filling your days playing games, your roommate suggests you take a step outside and head into the bustling village of Toppletown. Here you'll find plenty of people in need of help, but could there be a true friend in sight, too?
deja vu is a Yume Nikki fangame starring Vivienne, a girl refusing to leave her room, instead exploring a dream world.
Lonely is a Yume Nikki fangame. The game stars Anistasia, a girl who seems to have locked herself in her room. It plays like most fangames, based around exploration and collecting effects. Additionally, there are a few events with dialogue.
Mind Reader is a Yume Nikki fangame. Mind Reader's protagonist is Appuru, a boy unable to leave his room, instead exploring a dream world through sleeping. Appuru's dreams are colorful and sometimes vague, despite the general lack of sound.
Mizu is a Yume Nikki Fangame that's (quite loosely) based on ancient and almost biblical times. Play as a middle-aged man named Isaac as he finds effects (called Tides here) and explores the world hidden in the statue while trapped in a hut on a deserted island. Initially made for the 1st 1-week Yume Nikki Fangame Jam.
A sweetly innocent puzzle adventure game about a doll being desperate and a little naughty and disobeying her owner in the name of love.
Balmung Cycle Part I: The Messenger and the Heretic is a free RPG Maker game developed by Magi, inspired by Norse mythology.
Sunlit is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 3. Play as a young woman named Clover, explore her dream world, and find effects.
Passing By is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for the 2017 Dream Diary Jam. You play as Wren, who embarks on a train to see where it'll take her.
Starbot is a light, melancholic RPG Maker game tribute to The Little Prince. You play as a work-in-progress robot who befriends a star, explores satellites, and fetches parts for his engineer and mechanic. His journey takes him through strange dream worlds, and he crosses paths with a cast of wistful NPCs and eccentric, slightly intimidating sloths.
Play as a little ram named Faraday and help find her pet rabbit who ran away from home...
Answered Prayers is a Yume Nikki fangame made by Klaufir in RPG Maker 2003. One of the more well-known English fangames, Answered Prayers is also one of the 'lighter' Yume Nikki fangames. This game has plenty of areas to explore, with little gore/blood compared to many other Yume Nikki derivatives. The game was on hiatus between 2013 and 2022 to version 0.03 according to the official website, but the site was updated the 5th of July 2022, with new screenshots showing the future version 0.04 and is now noted as a version in development.
Remnants is a top-down exploration game about descending underground into a mysterious abandoned facility.
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.
Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer is a short game about torture and love.