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

Built for repeated playthroughs and varied strategies via an expansive roster of recruitable ninjas, a large selection of unique endings and secrets, and a mission-and-day-based structure, Beetle Ninja is a game that takes multiple separate playthroughs to truly appreciate!

Flux: Spectrum (panta rhei/tempora mutantur) is a surreal psychological horror game created in RPG Maker 2003, about a psychologist who uses a device that allows therapists to enter the mind of their clients. It is the first entry in the -UX Series. Nima Chuutou is a police officer forced to take temporary leave because of her worsening performance following the death of her partner. An ailing alcoholic plagued by nightmares and flashbacks, she seeks psychiatric help and meets Dr. Maria Evangeline de la Cruz-Algundy, a psychologist who specializes in using a "mentally invasive" device called Panacea. Panacea allows the therapist to enter the mind of their patient and reach a diagnosis by surveying the mind of their patient through a reconstruction of their subconscious and memories. However, therapy using mentally invasive devices is a ripe subject of controversy in the 2030s and seems to have more risks than benefits.

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.

Passing By is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for the 2017 Dream Diary Jam. You play as Wren, who embarks on a train to see where it'll take her.

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.

Play as a little ram named Faraday and help find her pet rabbit who ran away from home...

"Orange Salvifique" is a very particular French interactive film. It is also a creation with a real artistic and intellectual work. In this game, you will follow the journeys of a man with a strange temperament, made more or less crazy by a failed marriage. You will discover his story through the eyes of several characters surrounding him.

A very short RPGMaker2003 game made in one night for the Alex d'Or 2010 contest. It features the work of eXaHeVa, Bolt, Hyvenos, Sylvanor, Mortis Ghost and Alias Conrad Coldwood. French only.

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.

A story of fear and doubts about reality, decisions and regrets, dreams and darkness. ~ A psychological horror adventure that takes the player through the wide corridors of a mysterious estate and confronts the protagonist with far-reaching decisions. ~ Find your own path, explore the sinister estate and uncover some of its deep-rooted secrets. ~ Leave this waking nightmare behind you, or slide further and further down into the rabbit hole of the Labyrinth of Agoraphobia.

An alternate take on the classic fairytale of Rapunzel in the form of a puzzle game with horror elements.

Surprisia is a freeware Role-Playing Game made with RPG Maker. The game consists of 3 chapters; chapter 1 was released in 2004, chapter 2 in 2006, and united version containing chapter 3 came out in July, 2008.

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

Set in a world 3,000 years in the future, a small-time thief named Lu Weipi finds his life upended when his village takes in Feng Lingling, a girl who crossed over from the modern world, and Angel Cake, a high-tech robot prototype left behind by the ancient Blue Moon civilization. To help Lingling get home, Weipi sets out on a journey — one that keeps intertwining with the fate of his long-lost sister, and slowly unravels the mysteries of a forgotten empire. A charming freeware RPG Maker 2003 classic from Taiwan, considered a childhood staple by a whole generation of players.