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

Purple Game is a JRPG about a castle that has turned pink overnight.

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...

Short game by Mortis Ghost, creator of the well known rpgmaker game "OFF".

This is not the beginning of a nightmare, but the end of a peaceful dream. Haruki Atou, an investigator who works for the Otowa Detective Agency, was entrusted with taking care of his junior, Shinano, who was found with amnesia. One day, Shinano suddenly disappeared. The last place where his whereabouts was confirmed, it was near the facility of the religious group "Supreme Heaven Research Institute", which Atou was planning to investigate next. Atou was involved in the terrifying reality of the Supreme Heaven Research Institute, but he soon realized. He didn't get caught up in it by chance. Will you enjoy "God's love"?

A traditional Yume Nikki fangame, where your objective is to explore and collect "textures" (effects).

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.

The Trident of Power is a Zelda fangame developed by Pizus, under RPG Maker 2003. It offers a very complete experience with both battles and puzzles and a complete storyline taking place in both Hyrule and the neighboring country of Tylistem. The game is available in both Spanish and English

Mizu is a Yume Nikki Fangame that's (quite loosely) based on ancient and almost biblical times. Play as a middle-aged man named Isaac as he finds effects (called Tides here) and explores the world hidden in the statue while trapped in a hut on a deserted island. Initially made for the 1st 1-week Yume Nikki Fangame Jam.

"Phoenix Wright - Hidden Traces" is a German fan game for the well-known Ace Attorney series for the NDS. This part takes place between the second (Justice for all) and the third (Trials and Tribulations) and tells a completely new story. The player once again takes on the role of Phoenix Wright, a criminal defense lawyer who has to deal with a wide variety of cases and people.

You follow Tilde, an average 20-year-old guy living a humdrum life on his own. When one day word spreads of a cluster of so-called "meteorites" that came from the sky in the middle of the night. With nothing better to do he decides to check it out. If only he knew what he would set in motion...

Neftelia is a freeware game of uncertain origin.

I’m Scared of Girls, a small RPG Maker 2003 story-driven adventure game developed and published in the rpgmaker.net community by Moga (also known by the username CARRIONBLUE). It tells the story of Lamb, a young cross-dresser who finds himself in a purgatory-like dungeon. There, he must cut the ties to his former life in order to be reborn.

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…

3 days ago, 22 year old Henrietta was getting ready for work when she received a message from her mother: "Don't go out, the wind is changing people...". A mysterious wind appeared out of nowhere and if someone listens to it, they start to change: some get holes and pimples all over their body, some become grotesque abominations. Henrietta became deaf after a car accident 9 years ago, so she isn't affected by the wind... but she can't stay home forever. What's going on out there? What is that wind? Is Henrietta's mother okay?