The Best 59 RPG Maker Alternatives

  • Duality

    Duality is a modular 2D game engine / editor combo, written entirely in C# and built on top of an OpenGL backend.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • RPG Toolkit

    The RPG Toolkit is a free, open source project delivering a simple, flexible and powerful tool for the creation of role-playing games on your personal computer. The homepage also hosts games created with rpgtoolkit.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Tululoo Game Maker

    Tululoo Game Maker is a complex game creation environment that allows you to create browser based games. The program generates a Javascript code that can be played in web browsers using the next generation web standard HTML5.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • QICI Engine

    QICI Engine is a free and opensource JavaScript library, based on free and opensource game engine Phaser, with a web-based comprehensive suite of HTML5 game making editor.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows

  • Alice

    Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Leadwerks

    Low-cost video game development engine for Windows platforms.

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • Open RPG Maker

    Open RPG Maker is a free and open source clone of features from the RPG Maker series (i.e. rpgmaker200, rpgmaker2003, rpgmakerxp), as well as many other features.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Mac

  • Maratis

    Maratis is a portable, simple and visual game development tool designed for artists and developers. The Engine has been tested on Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS and can be used virtually on any platform. Maratis is Free and Open-source.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux iPhone iPad

  • G3D Innovation Engine

    The G3D Innovation Engine is a commercial-grade C++ 3D engine available as Open Source (BSD License). It is used in commercial games, research papers, military...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows

  • Project Anarchy

    Project Anarchy is a complete end to end game engine and state-of-the-art toolset for mobile. Project Anarchy includes an entirely free license to ship your game on iOS...

    Free Windows

  • Visionaire Studio

    Visionaire Studio is the top reference for the development of adventure games.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

  • Minko

    3D. Everywhere. Minko is a technology to develop and design rich, interactive and universal 3D applications targeting computers, web browsers and mobile platforms. ...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • ENIGMA

    ENIGMA Development Environment -- A very high level language, compiled into a less high level language.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • FPS Creator Classic

    FPS Creator sets a new benchmark in the game creation market by providing an easy-to-use yet highly flexible editing environment. As its name implies this is a tool for...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Arcade Game Studio

    Making games as the '80s arcade games. Includes Run'n'Gun, vertical & horizontal Shooters or Platform, makes games as Pac-Man, Commando, 1942, Ghosts...

    Free Windows

  • Whitestorm.js

    Whitestorm.js is a framework for 3D web apps built with Three.js technology. It implements a core for fast development of a 3D scene with physics.

    Free Open Source Web

  • fabric engine

    Fabric Engine is a platform for developing high-performance custom tools for visual effects, games, real-time visualization and VR/AR work.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Construct 3

    Construct 3 is a powerful 2D game development engine which uses Scirra's intuitive event system to allow its users to build all kinds of games and apps.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

  • Lite-C

    Lite-C is a programming language for multimedia applications and personal computer games, using a syntax subset of the C language with some elements of the C++ language....

    Free Windows