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




RPG Playground is described as 'Make your own Role Playing Games, fast, easy and for free' and is a role-playing game in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to RPG Playground for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Web-based apps. The best RPG Playground alternative is GB Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other RPG Playground like games are RPG Maker, RPG Paper Maker, Adventure Game Studio and Joiplay.
A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.




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.




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!



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.




JoiPlay is a game launcher for Ren'Py, RPG Maker XP/VX/VX Ace/MV/MZ, TyranoBuilder and HTML5 based games




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.


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!








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.




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.



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...