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

One-WAY is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars a girl named Alyssa. The goal is to explore her dreams and collect effects.

Surfacing is a Game Boy-style RPG in terms of color depth and screen size. Just pretend the resolution never changes due to text boxes, menus, or combat.

A YNFG Fangame made initially for Dream Diary Jam 5. You play as Josephine, who has been locked in her bedroom.

Any.One Online is an English Yume Nikki fangame developed as an entry for Dream Diary Jam 6. The goal of the game is to explore and collect Costumes. There are also tokens that can be found throughout the virtual world. When you were still in high school, the only social MMO you ever consistently played was Any.One Online. With new virtual reality tech and user-created worlds, you and your friends used to spend hours exploring, dressing up your avatars, and meeting new people in the strange digital environment. But that was years ago: even though the servers are still running, Any.One Online is practically a virtual ghost town. For nostalgia's sake, however, you decide to log back in. What you find is a surreal landscape only barely related to what you remember, a decade’s worth of unsupported code, scattered costumes, and the looming feeling that something's not right…

An interesting twist on the background history of the original Final Fantasy! This game feature what happened 200 years before the original Final Fantasy 1 for the NES, featuring an unexpected cast of characters otherwise known as the 'Sky Warriors' in the canon game. Witness the catastrophe of the four Fiends of Elements making their grand entrance into the Final Fantasy world, and experience the Lufenian response!

Beloved Rapture is an indie jRPG inspired by the classics. Explore beautiful landscapes, fight in turn-based battles, and uncover many secrets. This mid-length adventure balances both an intimate coming of age story, and larger threats looming over the troubled kingdom.

Hide&Seek is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame, where you explore Ann's dreams. Aditionally, the PC in her room can be used to receive mail, collect wallpapers and listen to music.

Scary Nikki is a parody Yume Nikki fangame. You play as Sanpurutsuki and explore her strange, terrible and have lots of MEMEs dream world.

A curse has fallen on Magi Burger! Three employees decide to head into the store on a day they're not scheduled to save their coworkers from the evil that has struck them.

Rana, a girl who had came back from a Halloween party, was abducted by three mysterious talking dolls who wanted to use her body for a ritual to summon the vampire prince. Not wanting to be part of any of it, Rana runs out and locks the dolls in their own ritual room. Now she must find a way out of a spooky house!

Someday is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame. Itsuki Inoue is trapped in his apartment by a terrible typhoon. He is unable to contact anyone. The only thing he can do, is sleep. So, in the meantime, he decides to explore his dreams in order to gather his thoughts. What could be inside his mind that doesn't feel right? The doll hanging out of the window stares at the gray sky. Will this typhoon ever stop?

I-N-K is a Yume Nikki/My Little Pony fangame. It stars Inky

Sister's Dream, also known by its original name Art de Reve, is an English Yume Nikki fangame where you explore the deep dreams of a girl named Guretsuki. Guretsuki is a typical 19 year-old hikikomori girl who doesn't want to leave her room. Throughout the dream world are various effects that'll allow you to trigger certain events, or make exploring your dreams a lot easier. Be careful while exploring, however, for the deeper you go, the darker your dreams get...

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.

INTER08JECT is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame made with RPG Maker 2003. Explore the dreams of Tomatsuki, a teenager who really likes tomatoes and cannot get out of their apartment building.