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
Despite sharing the same name and developer, this is a distinct game.
A submission to Ludum Dare 54, Cold and Unforgiving follows four young adults as they venture through the wilds of northern Michigan in search of a rumored ghost town. However, when it starts to get dark, they're left to make a decision that will change their lives forever.
A RPG Maker Game. Mortis Ghost said of it " it’s maybe the best game I ever worked on".
Within an ancient land, undisturbed for ages, evil resides in a towering fortress... A young wanderer, without a name and past, has been forced to travel to this fortress by a shadowy spirit who controls his every move. Setting out on an uncertain journey, the nameless wanderer has no choice but to succeed in pleasing the spirit's wishes or die trying...
In a world ravaged by disease, join a feeble, old man in his attempt to escape the plague, traversing dimensions. Black Astral is an English Yume Nikki fangame, made for Dream Diary Jam 2.
It's your birthday! You should go greet your guests. You're Pepper, the eponymous birthday kid. It's your 12th birthday today and you're having a party! The cake is nice, but you don't really like your guests that much... Also, there seems to be something important you're forgetting... and where the heck are your parents? Birthday Kid is a fairly short game about celebrating your birthday, human sacrifice, and discovering yourself. It's mostly story focused with a few puzzles. Playtime is about an hour or two. Warning: this game contains violence and disturbing content!
Re:in is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Hanatsuki, a girl who refuses to leave her room, instead choosing to peek outside. Later, you can unlock another character, Tamashitsuki.
Returning Nightmares is an exploration adventure-horror game, inspired by Yume Nikki and it's multiple fan-made homages (but with dialogue & easier to navigate maps). You play as Akira, a young man locked up in his own bedroom, exploring his dreams to remember the events that lead him to where he is now. But some things are better left alone…
Remembrance is the story of a woman named Kim who wakes up in a bizarre place with only hazy memories of her past and how she got there. Together with a strange, magic-wielding entity named Jesse, she sets out in search of what she's lost, as well as to complete the mission assigned to her that, in Jesse's words, is of the utmost importance. As she recovers and reflects on the memories of her life, however, Kim quickly realizes that some of the more powerful feelings and impressions in her mind, despite their nostalgic familiarity, don't match up with any of her memories...
Explore the city and commit crimes. Collect money and commit crimes. Pray to your Crime Deity and invade tombs.
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.
Whiskers is a Yume Nikki fangame created in under 2 days for the Dream Diary Jam. It is complete, and there will likely be no future updates beyond bug fixes if any are found. Play as Raymond from Animal Crossing and explore his shitpost dreams.
Your friend Marie needs you. Find Marie.
Your friend Marie needs you. Find Marie.
Uneven Dream is a collaborative Yume Nikki fangame founded by Factory and Nex. The game is similar to Yume 2kki (and, by extension, Yume Nikki: Solitude and Yume Shikki) by being made primarily of contributions submitted by a multitude of developers. In 2016, Uneven Dream underwent an extended hiatus until being revived in 2019.