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
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.
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.
Deep Fried Nikki is an English Yume Nikki fangame. It was made as a late April Fool's joke, satirizing fangames that are essential re-skins of Yume Nikki. It plays just like Yume Nikki, but with different graphics and music, and with an additional ending located in the White Desert.
Muma Rope is an English Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Muma, a lucid dreamer unable to escape her unconscious mind.
Yume Tsushin is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. The game stars Wormiko. You can explore the dream world to collect effects, or leave the room and explore the town instead.
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.
Can I be happy?
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~
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.
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.
A surreal dreamlike exploration game, heavily inspired by Yume Nikki.
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.
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.
The number 1 Anti-Wendy's RPG game in the world. Bebder was a robot who had always enjoyed eating at fast food restaurants. However, one day he decided to try Wendy's for the first time and he absolutely hated it. The food was gross and the service was terrible. Bebder was so angry that he killed the employee who served him. Now Bebder has a vendetta against Wendy's. He wants to kill the CEO of Wendy's in order to get revenge for the terrible experience he had at the restaurant. Bebder is a cold-blooded killer and he will stop at nothing until his mission is complete.