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

August Ends is a short story RPG Maker game with supernatural elements that centres around cooking. It takes place over the span of a week in late summer and follows the monotonous daily routine of a woman living alone in the woods, isolated save for her trips to an abandoned shrine deep among the trees.

Soto Nemuri is a Yume Nikki/Touhou fangame, made for Touhou Fan Game Jam 8. You play as Sumireko from the Touhou series and explore her dreams.

As the world's first half-human hybrid, you know that you're not something that's supposed to exist. Yet, here you are. An outcast in a world that's not your own. Stuck in a feud between yourself and your encroaching distorted view of the world. To you, things have always been black and white. You've accepted your worth on this planet, and have accepted whatever torment the next day may bring. You've accepted that you belong in captivity, locked away from the world, and have always been nothing more than some science project. However, one day, in a spur-of-the-moment impulse... ..your entire life will change.

You start off as Doro, who goes to explore a cave with his girlfriend Femme. A bit later you switch to a nameless girl commonly referred to as "Minotaur", possibly because she has horns. Minotaur is trapped in a cave and obtains an axe at the beginning of her journey, just like Doro. Your goal is to escape the cave you're stuck in.

Vagrant Shifter is a morbid indie JRPG about life, death, and what we leave behind. Inspired by the likes of OFF and LISA:The painful, it blends unique turn-based combat with puzzles, exploration, and a wide bredth of weird and intriguing side content.

Mind Reader is a Yume Nikki fangame. Mind Reader's protagonist is Appuru, a boy unable to leave his room, instead exploring a dream world through sleeping. Appuru's dreams are colorful and sometimes vague, despite the general lack of sound.

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.

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.

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.

Ephemreal is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. You play as Sumitsuki and explore her dreams to collect effects.

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.

When it's storming outside, and mom and dad are out at work, there's not a whole lot to do.

You play as Maria, a 23-year-old working at the local psychiatric hospital Cohibeo, tending to a delusional patient named Youshitsuki. You are able to explore her mind through her TV.

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.