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
Soto Nemuri is a Yume Nikki/Touhou fangame, made for Touhou Fan Game Jam 8. You play as Sumireko from the Touhou series and explore her dreams.
Daughter is a traditional Yume Nikki fangame starring Edel, an old lady who lives alone and refuses to enter the rooms of her home besides her own. You may explore her dreams while she waits for her family to visit her. As you explore her dreams, you can collect Edel's power fantasies (effects) which are "better" versions of her that will help you go deeper, and the deeper you go eventually you'll be able to open the doors and find what is Edel hiding.
Neftelia is a freeware game of uncertain origin.
Explore the Tower of Mimi floor by floor and try to reach the top! Endure games forced on you by Mimi, resident strange funny animal. See if you can survive... ohoho~
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!
This fanmade game combines classic Pokémon games with a Final Fantasy-inspired gameplay system that offers completely unique pokemon adventure. It has varied lineup of features including an active battle system that allows your party of four Pokemon to battle at once, an equipment system to customize your pokemon, legendary summons to assist you in battle and pokemon that have infinite movesets so you never have to forget a move.
black rain is a free fangame of the surrealist 2004 RPG Maker game Yume Nikki. It is a collaborative project led by Murasaki no Yume, and anyone can contribute to it at any time.
A surreal dreamlike exploration game, heavily inspired by Yume Nikki.
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.
Max is a teenager, who got sick of fever. He's having weird dreams because of that. Find the 11 effects and leave your room. A Yume Nikki fangame developed for Dream Diary Jam 7.
Meikyuu Ryuuki is an roguelike game. This was first shown as a submission in VIPRPG 2023 Kouhaku. The original language of the game is Japanese, but volunteers have created an English patch that you can download and use on the official page. This is a Mysterious Dungeon type and includes homages to several works.
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.
Single Line is a Chinese Yume Nikki fangame.
Dream Records is a game where you explore Hizashi's dreams and you can collect hairstyles. A YNFG for DDJ6.