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
This is your first day working at C.C. & C., Inc, the Best Office Ever. In between completing the weird tasks you're given, you must safely navigate the office hallways. You're not sure what makes the hallways so spooky. Maybe it's the weird noises made by the old building. Or the invisible monsters who chomp your head off if you linger for more than 20 seconds... With only your trusty revolver on your side, you must find a way out of this hellish place.
Expiate follows the dreams of Corbin, who accesses his subconscious by dozing off to the static sound and visuals of his television screen. It gets predictably surreal from there. You can choose to lead him to the darkest pits of his mind... or just break a bunch of stuff with a metal baseball bat. Either way, something or someone's gonna get beaten up. Expiate is a mostly traditional Yume Nikki fangame, with some slight alterations to the formula. Effects are a part of the game, but collecting them is not your main focus. Instead, use effects and explore to look for strange objects located around the dreamworld. Gather these items in order to progress.
Count to three, walk into your deepest dreams. The visions await. Made for DDJ8, explore a dark dreamscape and perhaps you'll start to uncover what exactly went wrong.
Murasame is a tense and atmospheric survival-suspense adventure game that blends action, exploration, and narrative choices to create a gripping one-night escape drama. The game begins with a typical school trip that turns into a nightmare when a sudden landslide traps a group of students. Stranded and seeking help, they find a nearby village—but what they discover there is far more dangerous than anyone expected.
This is a Final Fantasy fangame that is meant to emulate the first six entries of the series. Aside from just being a fangame, Blackmoon Prophecy is also a tribute to Final Fantasy in the sense that the developer tried to put together many of the things he loved about playing RPGs growing up into this game. It's a love letter to retro gaming and our childhoods.
Answered Prayers is a Yume Nikki fangame made by Klaufir in RPG Maker 2003. One of the more well-known English fangames, Answered Prayers is also one of the 'lighter' Yume Nikki fangames. This game has plenty of areas to explore, with little gore/blood compared to many other Yume Nikki derivatives. The game was on hiatus between 2013 and 2022 to version 0.03 according to the official website, but the site was updated the 5th of July 2022, with new screenshots showing the future version 0.04 and is now noted as a version in development.
Ichitsuki is a boy with lemon-shaped hair who can't seem to leave his room for some reason, he just backs away from the door out of his hallway. Poor kid, maybe his dreams will tell us what's wrong, in some strange cryptic way? This game is a Yume Nikki fangame. There are two types of collectibles in this fangame; effects and memories. Can you tell which type is good or bad?
Surfacing is a Game Boy-style RPG in terms of color depth and screen size. Just pretend the resolution never changes due to text boxes, menus, or combat.
Doug Bigham liven an enjoyable life as a member of a safety riot team, until he found himself lying in the middle of the debris of a town with no memory and serious injuries. His dream world and memories are his only method to rebuild the events that brought him to that situation. Collect the regular 19 effects and also Gag Effects to unlock the endings.
Someday is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. Itsuki Inoue is trapped in his apartment by a terrible typhoon. He is unable to contact anyone. The only thing he can do, is sleep. So, in the meantime, he decides to explore his dreams in order to gather his thoughts. What could be inside his mind that doesn't feel right? The doll hanging out of the window stares at the gray sky. Will this typhoon ever stop?
You're a fly. A fly whose hobbies consist of writing novels and eating sweets. One day you decide to check out a new cute cafe that promises an abundance of pastries, sweets and drinks. A cafe that is run by adorable froggos.
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.
The story of the game revolves around Aaron, a man who suddenly finds himself in a world that is slowly dying. He can't remember where he came from and why he ended up in the place he is in. In an attempt to make sense of the situation, he explores his new world, looking for clues that will unlock the mysteries that surround him. As you make progress, the puzzles become more challenging and the events increasingly horrifying. There are also a couple of action scenes, giving you a break from solving puzzles.
Curse of Silence was an action-RPG along the lines of early Zelda games.