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

Re:in is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Hanatsuki, a girl who refuses to leave her room, instead choosing to peek outside. Later, you can unlock another character, Tamashitsuki.

Capturing the heart of a Snes RPG, explore through the blazing deserts, cold mountains, tranquil forests and dark caves of Villnoire in this 12 hour character driven adventure.

The Looking Glass is a Yume Nikki fangame that features spoken dialogue and flavortext when interacting with objects and characters. The game also features light adventure elements, such as simple puzzles and increased interactivity in the normal world. Unlike most fangames the player character is capable of leaving her room, and begins the game in her classroom at her school. You play as Irene, who discovers a hidden world after falling through her mirror. The game follows her as she explores this new world after coming home from school.

There is a killer on the loose! In Ghost Party, you play as a lonely ghost who wanders the halls of a haunted mansion to collect random items and help save its various inhabitants from an unknown murderer.

Lenora Calamint lives with her mother in a small village called Pokeweed Hollow on the outskirts of a forest. She often delivers food to her stubborn grandmother, who prefers to live alone in the woods. While the forest is a dangerous place full of wolves, the village and her grandmother's house were peaceful. However, once a travelling, charismatic hunter decided to settle near the village and offered to protect it, the local wolves became mysteriously violent and began to attack the village in erratic bursts of activity. Due to these events, some villagers praise the hunter for his help in keeping the wolves out of their homes. The others can't help but think there's something suspicious about the matter. Despite it all, Lenora still has a grandmother to take care of, and so she wakes up to begin her routine of visiting her grandmother anew.

Fifth Era: Fragments of the Holy Stone is an Italian RPG Maker game of the golden era from the same author of Theia: The Crimson Eclipse (set in the same universe of Theia after some centuries, it's linked to the hidden ending). This game has 12 playable characters (three of them are hidden/optional), two bonus quests, four unlock-able extra endings and one unlock-able mini-game.

A Yume Nikki Fangame about a boy who hides something in his dream world.

Yume Nikki ver. 1.00 is an English Yume Nikki mod developed by 369071 2458. This is an expansion mod that adds a number of new areas and events to the game, along with an alternate ending. The gameplay remains the same as the original. The player enters the dream world by sleeping in the bed. The main objective of the game also remains the same; the player must obtain all of the effects by exploring the dream world to unlock one of two endings.

This is a fan remake and English translation of the mobile game Before Crisis, released only in Japan in 2004. Before Crisis is set six years before the events of Final Fantasy VII. You get to see the daily life of the Turks, such as doing missions for the company and fighting against the first group of mercenaries known as AVALANCHE. Famous characters of the Final Fantasy VII universe are present, such as Reno, Rude, and Tseng. But you play as Shotgun, a rookie starting her first day working for the Turks. You'll see her journey in those six years of meeting the new members, looking for a reason to keep fighting, and witnessing events leading up to the main game.

Mirtilo is a very troubled guy. One morning, they left home nearly without a trace, looking for their missing parents. Coincidentally, Mirtilo's cousin, Garoa, would pay her beloved relatives a visit moments later! Nobody was home, though. Come along this whimsical, colorful adventure with the two cousins seeking answers at each's own pace.

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.

A Yume Nikki fangame made by Gali. "8 comas. 8 of them within the span of a month?" A quiet Canadian town is faced with a comatose epidemic... one with no clear cause. Doctors scramble to find a cure as quarantine torments the lives of multiple families. You are a prodigy. A dream witch. Equipped with the means to remove nightmares and sleep paralysis demons, your career picks up when a new gig knocks at your door. You open it, and without knowing it, you have just taken your first step into a world of wonder, bizarreness, and dread, even for dreams. Will you find and stop the cause of this horrible comatose outbreak in time, or will unseen forces assure you, your friends, and your family never wake up again?

An interactable story starring articulate Dot Coppersimmons and the mysterious events that partake on her 21st birthday; including the accompaniment of the Birthday God himself.

Broken Bottles is a Yume Nikki fangame where you explore a girl's subconscious by falling into an induced sleep and you find what troubles lie in her mind. You start out in Dokutsuki's room. Once you have fallen asleep, you can choose from many doors in a corridor to start exploring her subconscious. The effects change what the character looks like and sometimes her abilities. Just wander around and enjoy.

Magpie Dreams is an English Yume Nikki fangame developed by PixelKated in RPG Maker 2003.