Tiled Map Editor

Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor. It's built to be easy to use, yet flexible enough to work with varying game engines, whether your game is an RPG, platformer or Breakout clone.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

AutoREALM

AutoREALM is a Free GNU mapping software (a "cartographer") that can design maps of castles, cities, dungeons and more. AutoREALM is generally used by Role-playing Game practicants who enjoy doing their own maps.

Free Open Source Windows

Dundjinni

Dundjinni is a full-featured fantasy map creation program. It allows users to create walls and floors, place objects, insert text, and more.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Campaign Cartographer

Campaign Cartographer is the leading map making software for games (RPGs, miniatures and wargaming). Campaign Cartographer gives you fingertip control of both the big...

Commercial Windows

Fractal Mapper

With Fractal Mapper, creating worlds has never been so easy! Fractal Mapper is a high-powered mapping system that lets gamers create a wide variety of of maps -...

Commercial Windows

Tiamat

Tiamat is Web 2.0 Tile Mapper; Ideal for creating miniature scale maps for role playing and miniature games. Tiamat is FREE to use to create maps. You only pay for the...

Freemium Web

Deadly Alien Map Editor (DAME)

DAME is a 100% free and open-source multi-platform 2D map editor oriented towards indie game developers. The editor works on the Adobe AIR framework.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Dungeon Tile Mapper

Dungeon Tile Mapper is a web based tile mapping tool that includes many official D&D tile sets.

Free Personal Web

TuDee

Old but still popular, ugly but powerful. Features include: Tile sets; Maps; Layers; Entities (e.g. sprites, power-ups, triggers); Paths (linear and Bezier...

Free Windows

Hextml

Campaign management tool for tabletop RPGs and map drawing tool with hexagonal (or square) tiles.

Free Web