RPG Playground AlternativesGame Development Tools & Role-playing Games like RPG Playground

Games similar to RPG Playground include GB Studio, which is free and open source. Other options are RPG Maker, RPG Paper Maker, Joiplay and Adventure Game Studio. You can choose from more than 10 Game Development Tools like RPG Playground for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and the web.

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  1. GB Studio icon
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    A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.

    6 GB Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. RPG Maker icon
     51 likes

    Suite for building 2D top-down role-playing games with detailed map, tile, and sprite editors, traditional turn-based mechanics, dialog and encounter tools, custom scripting, asset support, and publishing options, suitable for both beginners and advanced users.

    77 RPG Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
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  3. RPG Paper Maker icon
     26 likes

    RPG Paper Maker is a free game maker engine including a 3D universe with many 2D sprites and some simplified 3D objects. Pretty close to the RPG Maker series, RPG Paper Maker finally give a way to create RPGs in a totally 3D universe as easy as it is in 2D!

    73 RPG Paper Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
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  4. Joiplay icon
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    JoiPlay is a game launcher for Ren'Py, RPG Maker XP/VX/VX Ace/MV/MZ, TyranoBuilder and HTML5 based games

    28 Joiplay alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
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  5. Adventure Game Studio (AGS) - is the IDE and the engine meant for creating and running videogames of adventure (aka "quest") genre. It has potential, although limited, support for other genres as well.

    66 Adventure Game Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
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  6. EasyRPG icon
     9 likes

    EasyRPG is a project aimed at producing a free and open source role playing game interpreter and editor compatible with RPG Maker 2000 and 2003.

    29 EasyRPG alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  7. RPG in a Box icon
     4 likes

    RPG in a Box is designed to be a set of tools for easily creating 3D grid-based, voxel-style role-playing and adventure games—everything you will need for building and sharing your own game, all packaged together in a box, so to speak!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Open RPG Maker icon
     11 likes

    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. All of the data files are in XML format and are easily editable with any text editor.

    86 Open RPG Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. RPG Toolkit icon
     10 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. fgmk icon
     3 likes

    fgmk is a Python based editor for making retro, 2D RPG games. Games are composed of plain text files, images and a index.html file containing the engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  11. Nesmaker icon
     1 like

    NESmaker is software for PC that allows users to create brand new, hardware playable, cartridge based games for the Nintendo Entertainment System in a modern development environment. Users with zero coding experience can begin building their dream NES games without ever writing...

    5 Nesmaker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. WOLF RPG Editor is a game construction tool that can create complex role playing games. It is often regarded as being aimed at advanced users, so keep this in mind if you intend to use it. It was developed by SmokingWOLF (SilverSecond) in Japan.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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