Open RPG Maker Alternatives

Godot Engine

Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to PC, Mobile and Web...

Features:

• GdScript
• 2D Game Creation
• 2D Game Engine
• Efficiency
• Intuitive Nodes
• Lightweight
• Portable
• Scene Management
• Visual Programming
• 2D Game
• 3D Game Engine
• 3d renderer
• Asset Pipeline
• Export to HTML
• Modular System
• Multiplayer
• Scene System
• Scripting
• Support for Windows Hello

Unity

Unity is a multi-platform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity offers the free Personal...

Features:

• C# Scripting
• IDE
• Networking and Multiplayer
• Vectorize raster images

GDevelop

GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone. Any kind of 2D games can be created with it and no programming skills are required to...

Features:

• No coding required
• Visual Programming
• Material design
• Event management
• Multiple languages
• Multiplatform
• Multiplatform Export
• 2D and 3D physics
• Clean design
• HTML5 Support
• IDE
• Support for Javascript
• No coding required
• Particle Engine

Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine is a professional suite of tools and technologies used for building high-quality games across a range of platforms. Unreal Engine’s rendering architecture...

Features:

• Blueprint Function
• Cloth physics
• Destructible geometry
• Hair simulation
• Photorealism
• Scripting
• 3D Game Engine
• Apple Metal support
• Architecture Visualization
• Chaos Engine
• Develop in VR
• Materials Editor
• No coding required
• Node Based
• Particle Engine
• Performance analysis
• Profiling Tool
• Quixel Megascans
• Ray Tracing
• Virtual Reality
• Visual Programming
• Well documented

Stencyl

Stencyl isn't your average game creation software; it's a gorgeous, intuitive toolset that accelerates your workflow and then gets out of the way. We take care...

Features:

• Drag n drop
• Drag n drop editor
• No coding required
• Visual Programming

RPG Maker

The RPG Maker software series is a set of game creation suites aimed at easy 2D role playing game creation. With an emphasis on JRPG gameplay mechanics, the suites...

Features:

• 2D Game Creation
• No coding required
• Complete RPG Game Engine
• Royalty free assets
• Text boxes
• Textured tiles
• Visual Programming

Cocos2d-x

cocos2d-x is a cross platform open source free 2D game engine for mobile gamedev, that is fast and stable, easy to learn and use.

Features:

• Lightweight
• OPENGL

Urho3D

Urho3D is a lightweight, cross-platform rendering and game engine implemented in C++ and released under the MIT license. Greatly inspired by OGRE and Horde3D.

Features:

• Developer Tools
• Lightweight

GameMaker: Studio

Design your own computer games with a drag-and-drop event/action system, and introduce yourself to coding at your own pace.

Features:

• Code completion
• Sprite sheets
• IDE

ClickTeam Fusion

[Multimedia Fusion 2 has been replaced by Clickteam Fusion 2.5.] Game and software creation has never been easier or quicker than with Clickteam Fusion 2.5! With...

Wick Editor

A free and open-source tool for creating games, animations and everything in-between!.

Features:

• HTML5 Support
• Support for Layers
• Movie clips
• Tweening
• Vector Drawing
• Frame by frame
• Frame by frame animation
• Support for Javascript
• Keyframe animation
• Saving a copy of every URL you visit

ENIGMA - LateralGM

ENIGMA, the Extensible Non-Interpreted Game Maker Augmentation, is an open source cross-platform game development environment derived from that of the popular software...

001 Game Creator

Bring your game ideas and concepts to life with 001 Game Creator, which gives you the power to create a variety of game genres. With simple point-and-click scripting...

Features:

• No coding required
• 2D Game
• Drag n drop
• Web-Based

Adventure Game Studio

Adventure Game Studio provides the tools to make your own adventure, for free! Bring your story and artwork and slot it in, and let AGS do the rest. AGS provides...

Blitz3D

Create 2D and 3D Games for Windows. If you've been yearning to create games but have been frustrated by the complexity of programming languages such as C++ or...

Amazon Lumberyard

Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch – with full source.

Features:

• Virtual Reality
• 3D Game Engine
• AWS Integration
• Multiplayer

Duality

Duality is a modular 2D game engine / editor combo, written entirely in C# and built on top of an OpenGL backend. It's open source, features an open architecture...

Features:

• 2D Game
• Compnent based development
• Games support modding out of the box
• OPENGL
• Plugin system
• Portable

Cocos Creator

Cocos Creator is a complete package of game development tools and workflow, including a game engine (based on Cocos2d-x), resource management, scene editing, game...

GB Studio

A free and easy to use retro adventure game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.

Features:

• No coding required
• ROM Export
• RPG-like
• 2D Game Creation
• Gaming

RPG Paper Maker

RPG Paper Maker is a free game maker engine including a 3D universe with many 2D sprites and some simplified 3D objects.