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
Jill the candy making witch summoned a cute little ghost cat named Mumu to help her with her candy making duties. One day, Jill decided to make soup and Mumu agreed to help. All was going well until Jill decided Mumu's heart would be a part of the recipe! Scared for his life, Mumu barges out of the house and escapes, but Jill does not intend on letting him go that easily... During his escape, he encounters various characters and slowly uncovers the truth that ties everyone together.
A Yume Nikki fangame made by Gali. "8 comas. 8 of them within the span of a month?" A quiet Canadian town is faced with a comatose epidemic... one with no clear cause. Doctors scramble to find a cure as quarantine torments the lives of multiple families. You are a prodigy. A dream witch. Equipped with the means to remove nightmares and sleep paralysis demons, your career picks up when a new gig knocks at your door. You open it, and without knowing it, you have just taken your first step into a world of wonder, bizarreness, and dread, even for dreams. Will you find and stop the cause of this horrible comatose outbreak in time, or will unseen forces assure you, your friends, and your family never wake up again?
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.
Capturing the heart of a Snes RPG, explore through the blazing deserts, cold mountains, tranquil forests and dark caves of Villnoire in this 12 hour character driven adventure.
Yume Nyaki is a Yume Nikki fangame created for the 2017 Dream Diary Jam. Nyasuki has a dream about being asked by a mysterious person known as Cheru to aid an "Administrator" in some way, and to not harm the tree that Cheru is standing in front of. Then Nyasuki wakes up, and his adventure begins. Nyasuki's main goal is finding effects in the dream world.
Fifth Era: Fragments of the Holy Stone is an Italian RPG Maker game of the golden era from the same author of Theia: The Crimson Eclipse (set in the same universe of Theia after some centuries, it's linked to the hidden ending). This game has 12 playable characters (three of them are hidden/optional), two bonus quests, four unlock-able extra endings and one unlock-able mini-game.
Balmung Cycle Part I: The Messenger and the Heretic is a free RPG Maker game developed by Magi, inspired by Norse mythology.
A short adventure game about a young girl leaving her hometown.
Any.One Online is an English Yume Nikki fangame developed as an entry for Dream Diary Jam 6. The goal of the game is to explore and collect Costumes. There are also tokens that can be found throughout the virtual world. When you were still in high school, the only social MMO you ever consistently played was Any.One Online. With new virtual reality tech and user-created worlds, you and your friends used to spend hours exploring, dressing up your avatars, and meeting new people in the strange digital environment. But that was years ago: even though the servers are still running, Any.One Online is practically a virtual ghost town. For nostalgia's sake, however, you decide to log back in. What you find is a surreal landscape only barely related to what you remember, a decade’s worth of unsupported code, scattered costumes, and the looming feeling that something's not right…
V.D.O is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 4. You explore the dreams of Grey and each dream is split into linear sections that the player must complete to progress.
Within an ancient land, undisturbed for ages, evil resides in a towering fortress... A young wanderer, without a name and past, has been forced to travel to this fortress by a shadowy spirit who controls his every move. Setting out on an uncertain journey, the nameless wanderer has no choice but to succeed in pleasing the spirit's wishes or die trying...
In Earth's distant future, most of its religions known today decline or change. As a result of this spiritual upheaval, the barrier between the spiritual world and the physical one falter, and ghouls and demons are loosed upon the earth. Ultimately, most of these are resealed by the new religions, but one such demon named Belial, requires nothing short of sealing by angels to put back to rest. Thousands of years later, a beggar named Ambrosia Brahmin picks herself off the street only to be sent on a fetch quest by God, joined by swordsman, a shaman, a thief, a druid, an exorcist, an angel, and a demon. Meanwhile, the demon from eons before, sealed in a jar, is slowly being unsealed by a duped wizard, given false promises of rewards that await him...
Uneven Dream is a collaborative Yume Nikki fangame founded by Factory and Nex. The game is similar to Yume 2kki (and, by extension, Yume Nikki: Solitude and Yume Shikki) by being made primarily of contributions submitted by a multitude of developers. In 2016, Uneven Dream underwent an extended hiatus until being revived in 2019.
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.
Meikyuu Ryuuki is an roguelike game. This was first shown as a submission in VIPRPG 2023 Kouhaku. The original language of the game is Japanese, but volunteers have created an English patch that you can download and use on the official page. This is a Mysterious Dungeon type and includes homages to several works.