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

This is not the beginning of a nightmare, but the end of a peaceful dream. Haruki Atou, an investigator who works for the Otowa Detective Agency, was entrusted with taking care of his junior, Shinano, who was found with amnesia. One day, Shinano suddenly disappeared. The last place where his whereabouts was confirmed, it was near the facility of the religious group "Supreme Heaven Research Institute", which Atou was planning to investigate next. Atou was involved in the terrifying reality of the Supreme Heaven Research Institute, but he soon realized. He didn't get caught up in it by chance. Will you enjoy "God's love"?

It's a typical Wednesday. Your asshole of a boss wants you to go grab a crowbar so you can open the generator room before the hotel you work at goes up in flames. So you head down to the hardware store, but they're sold out. Then you step in some broken glass and cut your foot. Then a homeless dude tries to sell you a crappy robot suit. And THEN a necromancer mistakes you for one of her minions and you're stuck in her creepy witch's hut! Yep, it's just a typical, crappy day on Pen Island...

A Yume Nikki fangame for Dream Diary Jam 3. Tristan is stuck in his room for unknown reasons. In his dream world he can meet individuals known as Nightingales.

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.

Amorita Town, a sleepy location filled with peaceful residents and gloomy scenery. You are Carlos Ramirez, a seasoned Detective who has experience in many different kinds of cases and investigations. On a fated day, you come face to face with a case you have never witnessed before. A very mysterious and tragic murder of a family that lived in the outskirts of the town. Something about it is not right, it makes you feel extremely uneasy, and almost, unsure. As your mission deepens, the mystery appears to be shrouded in an evil like never before. What awaits you will tear you down and shake you to your core, an ancient darkness arises from the shadows. Enter the Shadow Seeker.

A mini-adventure game where the goal is to collect certain items in a village and bring them one at a time to the village shrine to open the largest building in the village, which is the northmost building.

A curse has fallen on Magi Burger! Three employees decide to head into the store on a day they're not scheduled to save their coworkers from the evil that has struck them.

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.

The young Mizuno Mai is the result of a relationship between a spirit and a human being. From the beginning of her life, she has been trapped in some mysterious and curious worlds defended by some living beings called "Guardians." Her birth broke god's rules and her grandfather will be chasing her to erase her existence and everything around her as part of a personal revenge. Because of that, and with a bit of help, she will be able to travel to the past, present and future, and grow in a lot of ways to face her fears. Meanwhile, you will discover more than a simple reason like that. She will fight monsters, demons and a lot of other souls... and a mysterious God is behind all of that. Mai will try to uncover the truth of his strange world.

Sincere Deceit is a fangame based on the indie title OFF by Mortis Ghost. You play as The Batter once more, dropped into a world slowly falling apart from a mysterious force corrupting it. It is your job to decide whether to fight against this force, or let it consume the world around you. Follow either of the two voices guiding you, or choose to cut your own path to find out the truth of what happened. Sincere Deceit is a horror game at heart, and thus deals with many heavy topics, such as violence/cruelty, gore/body horror, suicide, cult indoctrination, jumpscares (both visual and audio based) and some flashing on the screen. This is not a game for the faint of heart.

In a world ravaged by disease, join a feeble, old man in his attempt to escape the plague, traversing dimensions. Black Astral is an English Yume Nikki fangame, made for Dream Diary Jam 2.

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.

Despite sharing the same name and developer, this is a distinct game.

A submission to Ludum Dare 54, Cold and Unforgiving follows four young adults as they venture through the wilds of northern Michigan in search of a rumored ghost town. However, when it starts to get dark, they're left to make a decision that will change their lives forever.