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

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

Touhou A Live is a fangame of Live A Live featuring characters from Touhou Project.

Ava Garde was a normal blonde girl until an incident with a mysterious, otherworldly monster. The creature snatched up Beatrice, her friend, and then mutated Ava into a halfling with red hair and green blood. The next day, she could not remember the events, but she did recall her friend being taken. A portal suddenly appeared inside her home. Without any other choice, she went inside and into the Externus, looking for her lost friend. Iter Itineris is an English Yume Nikki fangame where you play as Ava Garde as you explore the unknown and bizarre realms of the Externus, the goal being to explore the worlds in the Externus and collect all the XenoVisions.

Super Mario RPG: The Seven Sages is a Mario-series fan game created by the team ICU Gigasoft with the RPG Maker 2003 engine. The game tells about Mario, Luigi, and Bowser in a journey to obtain the powers of the legendary Seven Sages to prevent their powers from being absorbed by the mischevious Wario and Waluigi with the stolen Star Rod and use it for their greed.

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…

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?

A game that explores one individual's mental struggles through their dreams.

Friend Hunt is a very short RPG Maker 2003 game. The game deals with a bunny name Cinnamon as the find themselves trying to befriend someone. Who is out to kill them.

A Metal Gear Solid fangame made using RPG Maker 2003 that mixes it with The Legend of Zelda

if Nil then is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 5. You begin the game as a spirit named Nil, stuck in a blood covered room with a disembodied head. Interacting with the head will allow to take control of Nozomi.

Re:Vessel is an English Yume Nikki fangame. You play as Resa and explore a strange dream world. The goal is to explore and collect effects.

Game created for RPG Maker 2003 by Brandon Abley and Teo Mathlein with the initial objective of making a console-style RPG unlike any other created with the engine. Features 100% user-created content and no RPG Maker 2003-default game systems.

Braingirl is a Yume Nikki fangame. It stars Mikan, an apartment-dwelling lucid dreamer, and is primarily based around the collection of effects and exploration of the dream world. Scattered across its areas are a form of currency known as CD's, which can be used at vending machines and other types of vendors.

V.D.O is an English Yume Nikki fangame created for Dream Diary Jam 4. You explore the dreams of Grey and each dream is split into linear sections that the player must complete to progress.

Take The Veil is an English Yume Nikki fangame made for the 2017 Dream Diary Jam. You play as a psychic goat named Ulysses as he arrives at an abandoned campsite. After encountering some strange crosses, he finds an empty caravan to stay in. From here, he enters the Fourth Dimension with the goal of pulling the ethereal crosses. This game contains dialogue and there are a number of NPCs the player can talk to. There are no effects to be gotten.