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

You play as Vanilla, an ice-cream boy who lives with his best pals Chocolate and Strawberry. Wander around a colorful and fun town while running errands for the big surprise!

A "travelling game" in which a turtlekin wanders alone through a drying seabed, managing their FEET, HEAT, MEAT, and FEAR as they go.

Ava Garde was a normal blonde girl until an incident with a mysterious, otherworldly monster. The creature snatched up Beatrice, her friend, and then mutated Ava into a halfling with red hair and green blood. The next day, she could not remember the events, but she did recall her friend being taken. A portal suddenly appeared inside her home. Without any other choice, she went inside and into the Externus, looking for her lost friend. Iter Itineris is an English Yume Nikki fangame where you play as Ava Garde as you explore the unknown and bizarre realms of the Externus, the goal being to explore the worlds in the Externus and collect all the XenoVisions.

Rana, a girl who had came back from a Halloween party, was abducted by three mysterious talking dolls who wanted to use her body for a ritual to summon the vampire prince. Not wanting to be part of any of it, Rana runs out and locks the dolls in their own ritual room. Now she must find a way out of a spooky house!

Sister's Dream, also known by its original name Art de Reve, is an English Yume Nikki fangame where you explore the deep dreams of a girl named Guretsuki. Guretsuki is a typical 19 year-old hikikomori girl who doesn't want to leave her room. Throughout the dream world are various effects that'll allow you to trigger certain events, or make exploring your dreams a lot easier. Be careful while exploring, however, for the deeper you go, the darker your dreams get...

Almari is a black comedy surreal horror JRPG inspired by Yume Nikki, OFF, Mother/EarthBound, Undertale, the Legend of Zelda series, and the Shin Megami Tensei series.

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.

Iso is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame for Dream Diary Jam 5. It stars a young man named Cygnus. He can only dream or take a shower. His appearance becomes elf-like when dreaming.

Akuma is a Spanish Yume Nikki fangame created by AshitaMinami. You play a boy named Akise who cannot leave his bedroom. Along with collecting effects, the main goal of the game is to uncover the story that unfolds by exploring the dream world. Unlike most traditional fangames, Akuma features dialogue and in-game text like journals to help tell its story.

"The cult classic RPG maker game that launched our careers Made in just a week back in 2012 In this game you choose to play as either Cantaloupe (Melon Boy) or Honeydew (Melon Girl) You find yourself in the outskirts of Hog Town, with your buddy nowhere to be seen. Ask around and see if any of the hedgehogs, hamsters, cats or dogs have any valuable info (but it may not come easy). Full of inside jokes, Melon Journey sometimes doesn't make much sense but it was made with a lot of love for all our friends and the people we admire."

Touhou A Live is a fangame of Live A Live featuring characters from Touhou Project.

A game that explores one individual's mental struggles through their dreams.

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.