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

The Year Is 1968. Trying to sleep amid academic pressure, pretending to be alright, and a raging thunderstorm outside of your dorm room, all you have to do is get in bed and get some rest. If only your dreams would cooperate... Rain And Red Roses is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 4. It primarily uses Alice in Wonderland as its theme mixed with 1960's aesthetic. The goal is to explore and collect effects, with the option to collect four counts of red paint as well, which unlocks a different ending.

This is an interactive experience. A new way of seeing and interacting with the ghouls.

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.

Unduhagge is a dream exploration game in the spirit of Yume Nikki. Join Mina Mori as she navigates a dreamscape full of absurdities, distressing personal memories and other experiences that push her beyond the veil and into the unknown.

Neftelia is a freeware game of uncertain origin.

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.

Anarchy is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame with darker, more visceral imagery, along with a dark and heavy soundtrack. The protagonist, Anarchy, is unable or unwilling to leave his room. The game contains no effects. Many of the deeper-hidden maps in this game are labyrinths with a number of dead ends.

The Other Line is a game that started as a Yume Nikki fangame. It involves a boy named Nathan in his apartment haunted by nightmares who, by use of his phone, dials into the alternate world (the "other line"). Rather than totally free roaming exploration, there are more linear paths that focus on puzzles or events.

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.

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.

This fanmade game combines classic Pokémon games with a Final Fantasy-inspired gameplay system that offers completely unique pokemon adventure. It has varied lineup of features including an active battle system that allows your party of four Pokemon to battle at once, an equipment system to customize your pokemon, legendary summons to assist you in battle and pokemon that have infinite movesets so you never have to forget a move.

Explore the Tower of Mimi floor by floor and try to reach the top! Endure games forced on you by Mimi, resident strange funny animal. See if you can survive... ohoho~

A college student named Spencer must explore a digital world in You-Realm, a Yume Nikki fan game made for Dream Diary Jam 3.

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.

black rain is a free fangame of the surrealist 2004 RPG Maker game Yume Nikki. It is a collaborative project led by Murasaki no Yume, and anyone can contribute to it at any time.