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

DreamDayKi is an English Yume Nikki fangame. It was made as an April Fool's joke, satirizing fangames that are essential re-skins of Yume Nikki. DreamDayKi plays exactly like Yume Nikki, but with recolored graphics, different music playing in different locations, several new areas and an additional ending.

Attero is an exploration game highly inspired by Yume Nikki, by Kikiyama. You play as Aren, a young man who finds himself isolated in his room. Explore his dream world, meet characters, and unveil the stories and mysteries inside Aren's mind space.

Nyan Nikki is a fangame of both Yume Nikki and Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls. You play as Raku-chan, one of the characters from the series.

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.

Remedy is an English fangame made by Isasapiens. You play as Hareta, a girl stuck in her bedroom. In the protagonist's bedroom there are two medicine bottles, one of which she must use before sleeping. You will be taken to one of the two main dream worlds based on which medicine you took before sleeping. Remedy is a traditional fangame, with the goal being to explore and find effects.

Remnants is a top-down exploration game about descending underground into a mysterious abandoned facility.

A action/adventure game revolving around Mina, and her friends, as she tries to escape her mysterious captivity.

RepresaL is a Yume Nikki fangame. You explore Nrutaz's dreams and, one unique feature in this game is an energy bar that the player must prevent from draining while awake.

Rooftop is an English Yume Nikki fangame where you explore Lani's dream world. The goal of the game is to explore and obtain effects.

Within an ancient land, undisturbed for ages, evil resides in a towering fortress... A young wanderer, without a name and past, has been forced to travel to this fortress by a shadowy spirit who controls his every move. Setting out on an uncertain journey, the nameless wanderer has no choice but to succeed in pleasing the spirit's wishes or die trying...

Lead four heroes and their teams against the evil forces of Mephistocles, the Lord of Demons in this retro-RPG adventure. Toggle between the four heroes as you explore dungeons, ascend towers, spelunk caves, save villages and defeat the forces of evil! Reminiscent of classic RPGs such as Dragon Quest III and Final Fantasy V, Hero's Realm is a fun romp in old-school RPG nostalgia.

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.

Unable is a Chinese Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Bility, a girl whose right eye is bandaged up. The objective of the game is to collect effects and explore the dream world.

Sunlit is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 3. Play as a young woman named Clover, explore her dream world, and find effects.

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.