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Games like RPG Maker XP

2004PC93 % positive24.50 €

A toolkit for building your own classic 2D RPGs without programming knowledge, with a map editor, database and Ruby scripting for deep customization. It is more a creative workshop than a game.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Pixel art
  • Fantasy setting

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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes RPG Maker XP special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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RPG Maker VX Ace

95 %Match

2011PCSteam Deck playable94 % positive67.99 €

Fits your focus: Mood like RPG Maker XP and Look like RPG Maker XP.

A toolkit for building your own classic 2D JRPGs, with a flexible editor, multiple tilesets and a customizable features system. What you actually play depends on what you create.

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RPG Maker VX

  • Mood like RPG Maker XP
  • Look like RPG Maker XP

RPG Maker VX is a toolkit for building and playing your own classic 2D RPGs without any programming knowledge. The experience depends heavily on what you create, with default templates in the style of turn-based JRPGs.

WorldBox

  • Mood like RPG Maker XP
  • Look like RPG Maker XP

A pixel-art god sandbox where you shape worlds, watch civilizations rise, and intervene with miracles or disasters. The appeal is the emergent chaos as kingdoms form, wage wars, and collapse.

Gnomoria

  • Mood like RPG Maker XP
  • Look like RPG Maker XP

A Dwarf Fortress-style colony management sandbox where you lead a small band of gnomes, dig deep, craft goods and defend your settlement as it grows into a kingdom.

Sandboxels

  • Mood like RPG Maker XP
  • Look like RPG Maker XP

Sandboxels is a browser-based falling sand simulator where you mix over 500 elements and watch heat, electricity, density and chemical reactions interact. There are no goals, just relaxed, free-form experimenting and destruction.

Towns

  • Mood like RPG Maker XP
  • Look like RPG Maker XP

You build and run a settlement on top of an active dungeon, looking after your citizens and sending them down as heroes. It blends city-building with RPG elements, though development was abandoned and it remains unfinished.

Dungeon Village

  • Mood like RPG Maker XP
  • Look like RPG Maker XP

You grow a humble village into a magnet for adventurers who hunt monsters and bring in gold. By building shops, training facilities and homes, you manage their growth in a relaxed blend of town management and RPG.

People Playground

  • Mood like RPG Maker XP
  • Look like RPG Maker XP

A physics-driven sandbox where you freely experiment with weapons, machines and odd gadgets on ragdoll characters. The fun comes from creative tinkering and the unexpected, chaotic results.

Hero Generations

  • Mood like RPG Maker XP
  • Look like RPG Maker XP

Every step is a year of your hero's life: you explore a procedurally generated world, build fame, and raise an heir who carries your legacy on in the world you shaped.

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