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
Moon River is an atmospheric experience with very light narrative and gameplay elements. You'll explore different areas of Elapse Island, searching for ways to dispel dark shadows that block your path along the river. This is not intended to be thrilling or challenging, but rather to evoke emotions through the colors and sounds of this environment.
A game about a girl named Sora and her aimless dream wandering. Your main goal is to explore the dream world and collect Gimmicks. You can also collect menu skins, which are hidden in various places inside the dream world.
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!
jourNEY REcord is a Chinese Yume Nikki fangame, starring Reney. The main goal is to explore her dream world and find all the effects.
Moonlit Lobby is a Yume Nikki fangame created for the 2017 Dream Diary Jam. You play as a cat named Harley who's fleeing from the rain and maybe more. Tell stories to earn your stay for the night!
Collective Unconscious is a collaborative, multiplayer game that draws inspiration from Yume Nikki and its fangames. You control Minnatsuki, a mysterious character wandering around a dream-like world full of spirits and otherworldly beings. The game is exclusively made for an online multiplayer experience, and hosted under the Yume Nikki Online Project server. Discover new worlds, gather collectibles, and share a unique experience with your friends across the spirit world!
The Door of thoughts is a Yume Nikki fangame. You play as a child named Michi, who is stuck in their room as they cannot find a door to leave through. The game features bits of dialogue when you interact with specific objects, for example, the effect-giving NPCs/objects.
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.
Nepheshel is an influential indie Japanese RPG developed by the doujin circle Studio Til with the RPG Maker 2000 software. The game was initially released on June 2rd, 2002. It received an English fantranslation by RPGMaker.net user Vittone on October 15th, 2022, more than twenty years later. Set on the isolated Confined Isle, the protagonist awakes without memories after washing ashore from the ocean. The island is said to be cursed so that everyone who sets foot on it loses all their memories. The game has the player exploring a series of interconnected dungeons in order to uncover the mysteries of the isle. Dungeons are intricate, full of traps and difficult battles. There are no random encounters, and every enemy icon on the map is colored according to the expected difficulty of the battle, so players can choose to try to sneak past dangerous enemies. The exploration is open-ended, with the player being free from the beginning to explore the island without hardly any obstacles except the perils of the dungeons themselves.
Jasei no In: The Serpent's Lust is a short, linear game with a strong narrative. It tells a story adapted from a Japanese classic collection of supernatural and paranormal stories called Ugetsu Monogatari. This particular story is a very popular one in Japan, and has gone through many adaptations since its initial creation around 1776.
The Yume Nikki : Mod(ified) Project is a mod that adds new features to the current Yume Nikki build. Much like the original game, it stars Madotsuki. It plays like the original Yume Nikki, with some added areas and NPCs. Unlike the original, Madotsuki can talk to certain NPCs.
Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer is a short game about torture and love.
With just 1 year left to live, the terminally ill Wind I's seemingly incurable illness has endlessly vexed Heal III, the greatest doctor in the land. But one fateful day, Heal III hatches a plan to even the odds against Windi's sickness, and to cure her once and for all. 9999 Wind Is are better than 1... right? But cures for such ails don't come cheap. Raise a legion of mighty Wind I clones, expand your clinic, and send Wind I to work and on adventures to secure funding as you research and develop the cure to end all cures! Part raising sim, part board game-esque RPG, and 100% classic VIPRPG fun in Kiito's signature style.
An English Yume Nikki fangame created by MichaelaGlass. Keiji is a young boy stuck in his small, unkept room; unwilling to leave it for a reason he doesn't want to think about. The only way he can escape the room is by going to bed and exploring his dreams. Explore his unconscious to uncover effects and help him escape his reality...