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

Yume Nikki ver. 1.00 is an English Yume Nikki mod developed by 369071 2458. This is an expansion mod that adds a number of new areas and events to the game, along with an alternate ending. The gameplay remains the same as the original. The player enters the dream world by sleeping in the bed. The main objective of the game also remains the same; the player must obtain all of the effects by exploring the dream world to unlock one of two endings.

A gun toting cowboy filled rpg chain game made by the Charas Project.

A life (work) simulation game made in RPG Maker 2003 (+ Maniac's Patch). Based on a game made for RaiPGMaker 2025 gamejam, and proudly made by surabayans(??) with a help from friends at Manusia Pagi.

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.

Unable is a Chinese Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Bility, a girl whose right eye is bandaged up. The objective of the game is to collect effects and explore the dream world.

Broken Bottles is a Yume Nikki fangame where you explore a girl's subconscious by falling into an induced sleep and you find what troubles lie in her mind. You start out in Dokutsuki's room. Once you have fallen asleep, you can choose from many doors in a corridor to start exploring her subconscious. The effects change what the character looks like and sometimes her abilities. Just wander around and enjoy.

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.

Nyan Nikki is a fangame of both Yume Nikki and Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls. You play as Raku-chan, one of the characters from the series.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rezident Evil: It Is Escape is a bizarre RPG Maker 2003 game. Starting life as the sequel to a terrible Resident Evil fan game from 2003, it gradually mutated into a Matt LeBlanc infested fever dream.