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
Meikyuu Ryuuki is an roguelike game. This was first shown as a submission in VIPRPG 2023 Kouhaku. The original language of the game is Japanese, but volunteers have created an English patch that you can download and use on the official page. This is a Mysterious Dungeon type and includes homages to several works.
Theia: The Crimson Eclipse is a freely distributed, non-commercial JRPG developed by a JRPG fan for JRPG fans. Experience an epic tech-fantasy story about about the world of Ariathale, including 40+ hours of gameplay, 19 playable characters, sidequests and mini-games, multiple endings, and a classic ATB Battle System inspired by the Final Fantasy franchise.
Purple Game is a JRPG about a castle that has turned pink overnight.
MuMuMu is a traditional Yume Nikki Fangame about exploring dream worlds.
The Jhonson Parable is a Yume Nikki fangame that centers around a man named Jhonson, who is also known as Worker #069.
Minimalist RPG Maker conversational game
A fan-made Dragon Ball Z RPG Maker 2003 fan game that takes place from Saiyan-Buu Saga with some 'GT' and 'Super' content afterward.
Cora wakes up in the main hall of an abandoned train station. She has no memory of what happened before she woke up, and an ominous silence surrounds the area. It's foggy outside the windows, the doors are locked and something disastrous seems to overtake the building... There are others, lost and confused, like Cora. And there are also the shadows and deformed creatures lurking and crawling in the dark, waiting to draw them into the deep. Will she be able to find a way out?
A surreal dreamlike exploration game, heavily inspired by Yume Nikki.
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.
V.D.O is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 4. You explore the dreams of Grey and each dream is split into linear sections that the player must complete to progress.
Unaccomplished is a Yume Nikki fangame. Yin Ming wakes up on his balcony in the midst of a thunderstorm. He is unable to leave his room due to it, so all he has left to do is sleep, and dream. The player explores the dream world and collects effects that change Yin Ming's form and grants him new abilities.
Uneven Dream is a collaborative Yume Nikki fangame founded by Factory and Nex. The game is similar to Yume 2kki (and, by extension, Yume Nikki: Solitude and Yume Shikki) by being made primarily of contributions submitted by a multitude of developers. In 2016, Uneven Dream underwent an extended hiatus until being revived in 2019.
"You can't ignore them forever." Fractured Dreams is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 4. You explore the dreams of James, and collect effects and tapes in his subconscious.