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

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...

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.