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
Magpie Dreams is an English Yume Nikki fangame developed by PixelKated in RPG Maker 2003.
Amillusion is a Yume Nikki fangame by the Team Compote. You play Danaë, who tries to stay awake reading a photo album. Explore her crazy and surrealistic dreams to find the "Keys". Sometimes, eccentricity can hide darker things...
INSULTED is a Yume Nikki fangame. Play as Cathy and collect "Objects" that will help her find even more useful Objects. Avoid the stalker of Cathy's dreams that appears to hunt her down.
Built for repeated playthroughs and varied strategies via an expansive roster of recruitable ninjas, a large selection of unique endings and secrets, and a mission-and-day-based structure, Beetle Ninja is a game that takes multiple separate playthroughs to truly appreciate!
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.
A traditional Yume Nikki fangame, where your objective is to explore and collect "textures" (effects).
Umbra is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Scott, a boy who gets trapped inside his home due to a storm. The main focus of the game is exploring his dream world. Umbra is the first game to use talk sprites, as well as the first to make dialogue an important gameplay element. The gameplay is traditional where the player is collecting effects, but with more puzzles and having dialogue choices affect the game.
This game is based on real events. Reality however, is a fickle thing. Play through one of many lost dreams where you must escape reality. You know nothing, and have to find out... What lies underneath it all?
A YNFG Fangame made initially for Dream Diary Jam 5. You play as Josephine, who has been locked in her bedroom.
Empty is a Chinese Yume Nikki fangame. The game stars Suo Xiangzi (锁箱子). Suo Xiangzi starts in her room, not able or unwilling to leave. Instead she can flick the light switch beside her bed to dream or access her computer to view wallpapers.
Yume Shikki (sometimes referred to as Yume 4kki) is a fan collaboration project created by users of 4channel/4chan's /v/ board. The gameplay of Yume Shikki is that of a traditional fangame and involves exploring a variety of different worlds and collecting various effects. No endings or end goal exists in the game. The protagonist of the fangame is Yotsuba Koiwai, the main character of the Yotsuba&! manga.
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.
Soul Song is a Chinese Yume Nikki fangame. The game plays much like other fangames, with the player's objective being to explore Mukuro's dream world via sleeping in the bed.
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.
You play as a boy named Enil. Enil always fantasized about being able to lucid dream, unfortunately, he has no experience on it, so you will have to make him improve. Play in a half accurate simulation of lucid dreaming, released for the Yume Nikki Dream Diary Jam 5.