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

You tried to quit your job but your company didn't let you. In order to motivate you to keep working, you were assigned a virtual assistant named SIAM.

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.

Empty is a Chinese Yume Nikki fangame. The game stars Suo Xiangzi (锁箱子). Suo Xiangzi starts in her room, not able or unwilling to leave. Instead she can flick the light switch beside her bed to dream or access her computer to view wallpapers.

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?

Max is a teenager, who got sick of fever. He's having weird dreams because of that. Find the 11 effects and leave your room. A Yume Nikki fangame developed for Dream Diary Jam 7.

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.

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.

Jill the candy making witch summoned a cute little ghost cat named Mumu to help her with her candy making duties. One day, Jill decided to make soup and Mumu agreed to help. All was going well until Jill decided Mumu's heart would be a part of the recipe! Scared for his life, Mumu barges out of the house and escapes, but Jill does not intend on letting him go that easily... During his escape, he encounters various characters and slowly uncovers the truth that ties everyone together.

Your Creator has disappeared from your world with no explanation. As the youngest among her creations, you have been tasked by the Dreamcaster with finding her and restoring balance to your little corner of the Universe. You might just be a Little Guy, but everyone is counting on you to overcome the forces of darkness and despair!

Do you remember why Oddy hired you? Explore the unknown world, seek oddjects that await to be found. A Dream Diary Jam 7 entry.

Ava Garde was a normal blonde girl until an incident with a mysterious, otherworldly monster. The creature snatched up Beatrice, her friend, and then mutated Ava into a halfling with red hair and green blood. The next day, she could not remember the events, but she did recall her friend being taken. A portal suddenly appeared inside her home. Without any other choice, she went inside and into the Externus, looking for her lost friend. Iter Itineris is an English Yume Nikki fangame where you play as Ava Garde as you explore the unknown and bizarre realms of the Externus, the goal being to explore the worlds in the Externus and collect all the XenoVisions.

.ExE is an English Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Carrie, a girl who refused to leave her apartment. .ExE involves entering a dream world through the protagonist's computer, with Carrie clicking on an application. Carrie takes on a different form in the dream world. The main objective is exploration and collecting effects.

Set ten years after the first game, you play as Lu Xiaofei — a boy bearing a mysterious mark — who gets swept into a cross-realm adventure after his adoptive parents go missing. Along the way he crosses paths with the feared Cursed Seal Tribe, and three girls who each leave a lasting impression on him. A short but emotionally weighty RPG Maker freeware game from Taiwan with a devoted cult following.

Any.One Online is an English Yume Nikki fangame developed as an entry for Dream Diary Jam 6. The goal of the game is to explore and collect Costumes. There are also tokens that can be found throughout the virtual world. When you were still in high school, the only social MMO you ever consistently played was Any.One Online. With new virtual reality tech and user-created worlds, you and your friends used to spend hours exploring, dressing up your avatars, and meeting new people in the strange digital environment. But that was years ago: even though the servers are still running, Any.One Online is practically a virtual ghost town. For nostalgia's sake, however, you decide to log back in. What you find is a surreal landscape only barely related to what you remember, a decade’s worth of unsupported code, scattered costumes, and the looming feeling that something's not right…

Iso is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame for Dream Diary Jam 5. It stars a young man named Cygnus. He can only dream or take a shower. His appearance becomes elf-like when dreaming.