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
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.
Answered Prayers is a Yume Nikki fangame made by Klaufir in RPG Maker 2003. One of the more well-known English fangames, Answered Prayers is also one of the 'lighter' Yume Nikki fangames. This game has plenty of areas to explore, with little gore/blood compared to many other Yume Nikki derivatives. The game was on hiatus between 2013 and 2022 to version 0.03 according to the official website, but the site was updated the 5th of July 2022, with new screenshots showing the future version 0.04 and is now noted as a version in development.
deja vu is a Yume Nikki fangame starring Vivienne, a girl refusing to leave her room, instead exploring a dream world.
Limbo is an English Yume Nikki fangame. Limbo plays like a traditional fangame, the goal of the game is to explore Annie's dream world 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.
Fog is a Yume Nikki fangame. From the Nexus, the dreamer can explore several different dream worlds. Within the dream world, they can collect various effects and perks, which can be equipped to raise certain stats which may affect their dreams. FOG includes various puzzles throughout the dream world. Those puzzles are generally based on various visual and audio cues; solving them may reveal Effects and Perks. The game takes place in November 1998, following the lucid dreaming exploits of Leon, Tegan, and Emory as they explore their shared but corrupted dream world after their friendship fell apart. They may find ghosts of each other, as well as recurring antagonists such as Fedoras and Shadow Creatures. Although FOG has no dialogue, Leon, Tegan, and Emory may find messages visually encoded as numbers, colors, or shapes or audial encoding such as Morse code.
Surprisia is a freeware Role-Playing Game made with RPG Maker. The game consists of 3 chapters; chapter 1 was released in 2004, chapter 2 in 2006, and united version containing chapter 3 came out in July, 2008.
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.
When it's storming outside, and mom and dad are out at work, there's not a whole lot to do.
Your friend Marie needs you. Find Marie.
.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.
This is a Final Fantasy fangame that is meant to emulate the first six entries of the series. Aside from just being a fangame, Blackmoon Prophecy is also a tribute to Final Fantasy in the sense that the developer tried to put together many of the things he loved about playing RPGs growing up into this game. It's a love letter to retro gaming and our childhoods.
Despite sharing the same name and developer, this is a distinct game.
Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer is a short game about torture and love.
A Yume Nikki Fangame about a boy who hides something in his dream world.