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
Set ten years after the first game, you play as Lu Xiaofei — a boy bearing a mysterious mark — who gets swept into a cross-realm adventure after his adoptive parents go missing. Along the way he crosses paths with the feared Cursed Seal Tribe, and three girls who each leave a lasting impression on him. A short but emotionally weighty RPG Maker freeware game from Taiwan with a devoted cult following.
Beloved Rapture is an indie jRPG inspired by the classics. Explore beautiful landscapes, fight in turn-based battles, and uncover many secrets. This mid-length adventure balances both an intimate coming of age story, and larger threats looming over the troubled kingdom.
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?
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.
In a world ravaged by disease, join a feeble, old man in his attempt to escape the plague, traversing dimensions. Black Astral is an English Yume Nikki fangame, made for Dream Diary Jam 2.
The game follows a girl named Dust as she is sent on a quest to bring bread and pie to a nearby village by the name of Woodpine. On the way she meets a charismatic young traveler who offers to aid her on her journey. When they arrive to the village they quickly discover that the village is not as peaceful as it seems. Young children have gone missing in the village, one after the another, during the last few months and as a result the village is in disarray. Will Dust with the help of her newfound friend, solve the enigma surrounding the missing children or will the dark secret of the village of Woodpine be left forever shrouded in mystery?
A Yume Nikki fan game in which one must explore the dreams of a mouse named Nicolas.
Flux: Spectrum (panta rhei/tempora mutantur) is a surreal psychological horror game created in RPG Maker 2003, about a psychologist who uses a device that allows therapists to enter the mind of their clients. It is the first entry in the -UX Series. Nima Chuutou is a police officer forced to take temporary leave because of her worsening performance following the death of her partner. An ailing alcoholic plagued by nightmares and flashbacks, she seeks psychiatric help and meets Dr. Maria Evangeline de la Cruz-Algundy, a psychologist who specializes in using a "mentally invasive" device called Panacea. Panacea allows the therapist to enter the mind of their patient and reach a diagnosis by surveying the mind of their patient through a reconstruction of their subconscious and memories. However, therapy using mentally invasive devices is a ripe subject of controversy in the 2030s and seems to have more risks than benefits.
Elysium City is a Yume Nikki fangame. You play as a girl named Anne who is an inventor. In her backyard she managed to invent a machine that allows her to teleport to a different land. The place she arrives to is a city where none of the buildings lead you to different worlds. Unlike traditional fangames, Elysium City has dialogue and detailed characters.
Aim for the deep sea while replenishing your air
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.
"You" who got lost in a strange land, will hear a ghost story from a eccentric girl who lives there, relieving that vague memory.
During a 3-day workshop in Australia, a girl named Kana discovers a dark secret hidden beneath the manor she is staying at. Now she must work against time to save her friends from a fate worse than death. There are two objectives: Solve the mystery behind the existence of the wraith, and live to see the morning sun. Dawn is only a few hours away... Wraith is a freeware game made in 2005 by Neo Kuriyo, or Neok as he is known on the RPGmaker.net forums. It's a horror-based Adventure Game made with RPG Maker 2003, and was Neok's first game on the site.
A curse has fallen on Magi Burger! Three employees decide to head into the store on a day they're not scheduled to save their coworkers from the evil that has struck them.
A game that explores one individual's mental struggles through their dreams.