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

Corallo is a Yume Nikki fangame. The main focus is exploring "dreams" and collecting "effects", which can be purely cosmetic or make the character perform certain actions. Corallo focuses on Maya, a young woman stuck on a wheelchair and locked in a room. She can only stare at the ocean in front of her window and daydream. By interacting with her mind, the player can learn more about her and her past, and what lead her to be stuck in her current room.

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.

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

I-N-K is a Yume Nikki/My Little Pony fangame. It stars Inky

A furry RPG. The player controls an ornery cat named Kattaa. Kattaa's friends' unruly behavior embarrasses her, compelling her to establish a community "help" group with little to no apparent purpose to anyone other than herself. All graphics and some music are original to the game. Cast of characters includes Kattaa's fox girlfriend, a strange jungle pet, a winged dog who really loves basketball, Kattaa's girlfriend's awful roommate, said roommate's online romantic interest who is nothing he says he is, an oddball red panda who lives in the spooky forest, an old college friend who has become a very successful cow in the business world, and an unsociable dingo whose many adopted sheep siblings save the player's progress. The game takes around 30 to 50 minutes to complete.

Metal Quest is a 16 bit Party and class Based RPG game, semi-turn-based combat, set in a Unique world where metal music replaces magic, and traditional fantasy weapons.

Take The Veil is an English Yume Nikki fangame made for the 2017 Dream Diary Jam. You play as a psychic goat named Ulysses as he arrives at an abandoned campsite. After encountering some strange crosses, he finds an empty caravan to stay in. From here, he enters the Fourth Dimension with the goal of pulling the ethereal crosses. This game contains dialogue and there are a number of NPCs the player can talk to. There are no effects to be gotten.

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.

Purple Game is a JRPG about a castle that has turned pink overnight.

Legion Saga R is a unfinished RPG game created by Kamau. It is a first remake of Legion Saga using RPG Maker 2003. Experience the original Legion Saga adventure with improved graphics, sound, music, storyline, characters and more. New Legionnaires to find and recruit including both playable and characters who will add to the castle. More mini-games to play including more duels and wars (both will have improved engines) and more games to play with Kinuba. Multiple endings as in the original, plus new endings and storyline routes. New Orbcraft system: Orbs come in two varieties, attack and defense. You will learn new skills depending on where you put the Orb, and also depending on your character's magic stats. RPG Maker 2003's new side-view battle system with the ATB gauge.

MuMuMu is a traditional Yume Nikki Fangame about exploring dream worlds.

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.

Cora wakes up in the main hall of an abandoned train station. She has no memory of what happened before she woke up, and an ominous silence surrounds the area. It's foggy outside the windows, the doors are locked and something disastrous seems to overtake the building... There are others, lost and confused, like Cora. And there are also the shadows and deformed creatures lurking and crawling in the dark, waiting to draw them into the deep. Will she be able to find a way out?

Unaccomplished is a Yume Nikki fangame. Yin Ming wakes up on his balcony in the midst of a thunderstorm. He is unable to leave his room due to it, so all he has left to do is sleep, and dream. The player explores the dream world and collects effects that change Yin Ming's form and grants him new abilities.

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.