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
August 31 is a Chinese Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Huá Jū. It plays like most Yume Nikki fangames, except that there are some events that have dialogue with other characters and it has little to no music.
When it's storming outside, and mom and dad are out at work, there's not a whole lot to do.
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.
It's your birthday! You should go greet your guests. You're Pepper, the eponymous birthday kid. It's your 12th birthday today and you're having a party! The cake is nice, but you don't really like your guests that much... Also, there seems to be something important you're forgetting... and where the heck are your parents? Birthday Kid is a fairly short game about celebrating your birthday, human sacrifice, and discovering yourself. It's mostly story focused with a few puzzles. Playtime is about an hour or two. Warning: this game contains violence and disturbing content!
"Well Seymour, I made it, despite your directions"
Threshold is an English Yume Nikki fangame. The protagonist is a boy named Hideko, who refuses to leave his room. The goal is to collect effects.
A story of fear and doubts about reality, decisions and regrets, dreams and darkness. ~ A psychological horror adventure that takes the player through the wide corridors of a mysterious estate and confronts the protagonist with far-reaching decisions. ~ Find your own path, explore the sinister estate and uncover some of its deep-rooted secrets. ~ Leave this waking nightmare behind you, or slide further and further down into the rabbit hole of the Labyrinth of Agoraphobia.
Follow Megumi and 15 other people locked inside a luxurious mansion. An evil mechanical bear known as Monokuma forces them to play a killing game. Will they start killing each other? Who will survive?
Surprisia is a freeware Role-Playing Game made with RPG Maker. The game consists of 3 chapters; chapter 1 was released in 2004, chapter 2 in 2006, and united version containing chapter 3 came out in July, 2008.
As the world's first half-human hybrid, you know that you're not something that's supposed to exist. Yet, here you are. An outcast in a world that's not your own. Stuck in a feud between yourself and your encroaching distorted view of the world. To you, things have always been black and white. You've accepted your worth on this planet, and have accepted whatever torment the next day may bring. You've accepted that you belong in captivity, locked away from the world, and have always been nothing more than some science project. However, one day, in a spur-of-the-moment impulse... ..your entire life will change.
This is an interactive experience. A new way of seeing and interacting with the ghouls.
An alternate take on the classic fairytale of Rapunzel in the form of a puzzle game with horror elements.
Fog is a Yume Nikki fangame. From the Nexus, the dreamer can explore several different dream worlds. Within the dream world, they can collect various effects and perks, which can be equipped to raise certain stats which may affect their dreams. FOG includes various puzzles throughout the dream world. Those puzzles are generally based on various visual and audio cues; solving them may reveal Effects and Perks. The game takes place in November 1998, following the lucid dreaming exploits of Leon, Tegan, and Emory as they explore their shared but corrupted dream world after their friendship fell apart. They may find ghosts of each other, as well as recurring antagonists such as Fedoras and Shadow Creatures. Although FOG has no dialogue, Leon, Tegan, and Emory may find messages visually encoded as numbers, colors, or shapes or audial encoding such as Morse code.
I’m Scared of Girls, a small RPG Maker 2003 story-driven adventure game developed and published in the rpgmaker.net community by Moga (also known by the username CARRIONBLUE). It tells the story of Lamb, a young cross-dresser who finds himself in a purgatory-like dungeon. There, he must cut the ties to his former life in order to be reborn.
Cranberry Dream is an English Yume Nikki fangame created by Gumitsu. It was made for Dream Diary Jam 2 in RPG Maker 2003.