Solarus AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Game Development Tools

The best Game Development alternative to Solarus is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Solarus and 13 are Game Development Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Game Development Tool alternatives to Solarus are microStudio, Bevy Game Engine, UPBGE and RPG Maker.

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  1. Godot Engine icon
     612 likes

    Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel.

    181 Godot Engine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Epic Games Store
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Steam
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
    • itch.io
    • Meta Quest
     
  2. UPBGE icon
     11 likes

    A extremely powerful application to make games in python as well as in visual programming

    134 UPBGE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Blender
     
  3. 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.

    75 RPG Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
     
  4. 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!

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
     
  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  6. PaletAI icon
     1 like

    App to create, play, and share AI-generated mobile games, no coding required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  7. 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 simulators, and university courses. G3D supports hardware accelerated real-time rendering, off-line rendering like ray...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. Open RPG Maker icon
     12 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

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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.

    69 RPG Toolkit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. fgmk icon
     4 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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