- RPG Maker Special Sale 2026 Is Here! - 28 August 2026
RPG Maker Special Sale 2026 is a special event for everyone who wants to make games!Game development tools including the RPG Maker series and ACTION GAME MAKER, as well as DLC and plugins to help bring your games to life, are available at special prices!・RPG Maker Special Sale 2026https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/gotchagotchagames・Sale PeriodAugust 27, 2026, 10:00 AM – September 9, 2026, 10:00 AM (PT)■DiscountsRPG Maker MZ: 61% OFF — its highest discount to date!ACTION GAME MAKER: 40% OFF! ■Special BundleA special bundle featuring RPG Maker MZ, useful tools, and DLC! This special bundle is packed with items that give you even more ways to bring your ideas to life, including RPG Maker MZ - Action Combat Plugin, which lets you create action games in RPG Maker MZ; RPG Maker MZ - Tileset Builder, a tool for creating and editing pixel-art map assets; and RPG Maker MZ - Windowset Buil…
- Our Time With bitter sweet entertainment Has Come to An End - 24 March 2026
Hello RPG Makers, Thank you for your continued support of RPG Maker and we hope your game dev is going well. Unfortunately, today we are announcing that all resource packs from bitter sweet entertainment will be delisted at the end of this month. If you have already purchased any of these packs, Don't Worry! You will retain access to them through your Steam account. But if there are any that you would like to purchase but you have not yet done so, be sure to pick them up before March 31st! Thank you again for supporting us, and good luck on all your games!
- “RPG Maker Festival 2026” goes live today, February 15, at 8:00 PM (JST)! - 15 February 2026
The annual celebration of RPG Maker, RPG Maker Festival 2026, is live from February 10–24, 2026(JST)!To celebrate the festival, we’re streaming a special edition of “RPG Maker Showcase” on YouTube on February 15 (Maker's Day)!Whether you're curious about RPG Maker or already creating your own games, this stream is packed with exciting content you won’t want to miss.ProgramLatest RPG Maker series informationRPG Maker Award Winner Announcement & Let's PlayMaking Games with RPG Maker! RPG Maker Community Title HighlightSpecial GuestsJ-monHighGaiHashtag Campaign Everyone who posts their thoughts about RPG Maker Showcase on X will be entered into a drawing to win: RPG Maker MZ RPG MAKER UNITEACTION GAME MAKER How to Enter: Follow our official X account: @RPGMakerSeriesPost your thoughts with the hashtag #RMShowcase2026 Don’t forget to like the video and subscribe to the channel for more upda…
- RPG Maker Festival 2026 has begun! - 9 February 2026
Celebrate RPG Maker Day! RPG Maker Festival 2026 is Now Live!February 15th is officially recognized as "RPG Maker Day", a whole day dedicated to sharing the joy of game creation.To celebrate, we are thrilled to announce the start of the RPG Maker Festival 2026!・RPG Maker Festival 2026https://store.steampowered.com/sale/rpgmakerfestival2026/・RPG Maker Festival 2026 – Event PeriodFrom 10AM on FEB 9, 2026 to 10AM on FEB 23, 2026 (PST)This massive online event features incredible discounts on the RPG Maker series and all its DLC, along with showcasing many amazing titles created by our community!■ Special Discount InformationNow is the perfect time to start your game development journey with these limited-time offers:RPG Maker MZ: 60% OFF for the first time!RPG Maker MV: 93% OFFACTION GAME MAKER: 30% OFFExtra Savings: Purchase the RPG Maker MZ & ACTION GAME MAKER Bundle to receive an additi…
- RPG Maker Special Sale is Live! Supporting Your Game Development Journey - 6 October 2025
The RPG Maker Special Sale is here to support everyone who wants to start making games—or is already creating them! From the RPG Maker series to the brand-new ACTION GAME MAKER, plus a huge variety of DLC and plugins, everything is available at special discounted prices! ■ Sale Overview During this RPG Maker Special Sale, RPG Maker titles and related products are available for up to 90% OFF! Not only can you grab the essential editors, but you’ll also find plenty of additional assets and powerful plugins to expand your game worlds. Find the tools to take your creations to the next level! Sale Period: October 6, 2025 (Mon) 9:00 AM – October 20, 2025 (Mon) 10:00 AM PDTEvent Page: ■ Featured Titles & DLC RPG Maker MZ – 55% OFF RPG Maker MV – 90% OFF ACTION GAME MAKER – 20% OFF RPG Maker MZ – Card Game Combat Plugin – 20% OFF RPG Maker MZ Dorapika Pixel Map Assets: Modern City – 65% OFF ■ R…
- A Tapestry of Old and New Titles! RPG Maker Festival 2025 Begins! Celebrate Over - 3 February 2025
About RPG Maker Festival 2025 Maker Day (Tsukuru no Hi, February 15th) is the day for recognizing and spreading the joy of making games! To celebrate this day, we are holding the online event 'RPG Maker Festival' again this year! The "RPG Maker Festival" is a grand event with the theme of "Creators and players, everyone is the star!" There'll be new releases and lots of discounts for RPG Maker products, DLCs, and a large number of games created with RPG Maker. This year, the number of participating titles is 1074 games - a record for the event! Don't miss your chance to discover new masterpieces and make some great purchases. Additionally 2025 represents the 5th anniversary for RPG Maker MZ, the 10th anniversary for RPG Maker MV, and the 25th anniversary for RPG Maker 2000! To celebrate these anniversaries, RPG Maker Festival 2025 is spread out over 2 weeks due to all we have planned! W…
- Application Deadline Extended for 'RPG Maker Festival 2025' - 27 December 2024
We are pleased to announce that the application deadline for participation in 'RPG Maker Festival 2025' has been extended to 6:59 AM (PST) on Sunday, January 5, 2025. If you haven’t applied yet, don’t miss this opportunity to join! Applications can be submitted via the URL provided at the bottom of this article. As a special campaign, we will be giving away RPG Maker MV and RPG Maker MV DLC worth approximately 100,000 JPY (approx. 670 USD) to selected participants via a lottery! 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of RPG Maker MV, and to celebrate this milestone, we have prepared a wide selection of DLC to enhance your development experience. For those who have already applied, don’t worry—you are automatically entered into the giveaway, so no further action is required. We look forward to receiving your applications! ============== ■Participation Requirements ･The game is ma…
- Registration Has Begun! RPG Maker Festival Returns in 2025! - 10 December 2024
The RPG Maker Festival has returned for 2025! ▼What is RPG Maker Festival? February 25th is “Maker Day”, the day we celebrated all things RPG Maker. And we celebrate by holding the RPG Maker Festival! RPG Maker Festival celebrates all games made with all versions of RPG Maker and Pixel Game Maker! We want to showcase and introduce more people to the wonderful games that have been made with RPG Maker, and connect as many creators and players together as possible. The more connected we are, the more fun there is to be had! There’s many anniversaries this year, so the theme for RPG Maker Festival 2025 is “A Tapestry of Old and New Titles”! ▼RPG Maker Festival 2025: Participants Wanted! We’re currently looking for developers and publishers who’d like to participant in RPG Maker Festival 2025! If you have a game made with RPG Maker or Pixel Game Maker, we hope you’ll decide to submit your ga…
- The RPG Maker Horror Festival Begins! Experience the thrills of horror games! - 27 September 2024
The RPG Maker Horror Festival is a Steam-focused horror game event for games made with any engine, not just RPG Maker. With more than 200 titles participating, there’s all kinds of deals available! Why don’t you take a look and see if there’s a new experience waiting for you? In support of the event, we’re running a sale on the RPG Maker series, its DLC, and the games Gotcha Gotcha Games publishes on both Steam and the new RPG Maker Official Store! ------- ・RPG Maker Horror Festival: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39252092/sale/RPGMakerHorrorFestival ・Event Period: 2024/9/27 02:00 (GMT+9) ～ 2024/10/4日 02:00 (GMT+9) ------- ■Event Trailer A special trailer has been prepared to showcase participating titles. Please check it out! https://youtu.be/mm0_cG_9BaA RPG Maker Series Discounts: 【RPG Maker Official Store】 ･RPG MAKER UNITE: 30％OFF For more details, search for "RPG Maker Offic…
- Submissions for the RPG Maker Horror Festiva are now open! - 9 August 2024
We are planning a creator-focused horror event, called the RPG Maker Horror Festival, that is open to all Steam games that fall within the horror genre! Submissions for the event are now open! Other than the basic requirements listed below, the event is open to all games! And of course we’re hoping many submissions will be looking to use Steam’s Broadcast function too! If this sounds like the kind of event for your game, please complete the submission form linked below. ■Eligibility Requirements ・The game qualifies as a horror game in theme/tone. ・The game is currently available for sale or distribution on Steam. (Unreleased titles are also allowed if already completed registration with Steam) ※Games that were not made with a Maker series engine such as RPG Maker or Pixel Game Maker MV are allowed. ■Submission Form Please complete one of the following forms to submit your game(s) for co…
- RPG Maker Festival 2024 - 12 February 2024
Creators and players, everyone is the protagonist! RPG Maker's biggest event is being held again this year. Creators and players, everyone is the protagonist! This year, we will be holding the "RPG Maker Festival" again. ・RPG Maker MZ is 50% discount! ・Over 600 RPG Maker games are participating! Discounted titles included. And... ＼＼Limited time offer: RPG Maker XP available for free distribution／／ Event page URL: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39252092/sale/RPGMaker2024 Event period: February 12, 2024, 10:00 AM (PST) to February 19, 2024, 10:00 AM (PST)
- RPG Maker Festival 2023 Starts Today on Steam! - 14 February 2023
The RPG Maker Festival is an annual Steam Sale Event that saw its first occurring in February 2022. It is dedicated to the RPG Maker series, a non-coding engine series well loved by many indie and hobbyist developers from around the globe. Not only will the engines be discounted greatly, the 2023 event will also be joined by over 450 RPG Maker-made game titles created by its enthusiastic and eager fan community, including worldly-acclaimed titles such as The Witch's House MV and LISA: The Painful! RPG Maker Festival 2023 Steam Event Page https://store.steampowered.com/sale/rpgmaker_festival_2023 RPG Maker Festival 2023 Event Duration Pacific Standard Time: Feb 13, 2023 10:00 AM to Feb 20, 2023 10:00 AM Japan Standard Time: Feb 14, 2023 03:00 AM to Feb 21, 2023 03:00 AM 45% OFF on RPG Maker MZ, and 85% OFF on RPG Maker MV！ The most current RPG Maker title, RPG Maker MZ, will be discounte…
- RPG Maker Festival 2023 Steam Sale is Now Officially Happening! - 20 January 2023
Behold dear game developers! We are thrilled to announce that we, Gotcha Gotcha Games, the developer of the RPG Maker engine series, will soon be holding our RPG Maker Festival 2023 Steam Sale Event! What is RPG Maker Festival? RPG Maker Festival is our annual Sale event held on Steam! This is where we and all RPG Maker indie developers around the world join-hands together and show what the RPG Maker engine series and your great creation is made of and get recognized by game players and fans across the world! As long as your game is made by RPG Maker series or Pixel Game Maker MV and has a Steam Store page, you are eligible to participate! So far, we have confirmed that more than 300 titles will be participating in this Steam Sale event, including the widely acclaimed titles like The Witch's House MV and LISA: The Painful! Apply for Entry into the Festival NOW with Your Game! (Deadline…
- RPG Maker MZ Preorder started! - 20 July 2020
RPG Maker MZ is now available for preorder, both on it's own and in two bundle versions! ● RPG Maker MZ - standalone preorder (full price: $79.99) ● RPG Maker MZ Bundle ● RPG Maker MZ Bundle S Preorder now to take advantage of the following bonuses! ******************************************************************************************* 【Bonus 1】FREE RPG Maker MV with each purchase (time limited) Every preorder RPG Maker MZ comes with a free key to RPG Maker MV, usable right away. You can either start learning RPG Maker with MV while you wait for the release of MZ, or if you already own MV you can give it away to a friend. ******************************************************************************************* 【Bonus 2】RPG Maker MZ includes the 2 following bonus DLC: ・Character Generator Pack To extend the RPG Maker MZ Character Generator even MORE, you will receive the Character…
- Manga Maker ComiPo! now available in Chinese! - 23 April 2019
We are happy to announce the Steam version of Manga Make ComiPo! is now available in Chinese. store.steampowered.com/app/262490/Manga_Maker_Comipo/ To change language open the property menu from your steam library, and select Simplified Chinese on the language tab. Chinese and English versions on Steam are fully compatible. We hope you enjoy making short and fun manga!
- RPG Maker and trippy adventure game OneShot lead massive midweek Steam sale - 8 November 2017
Just yesterday I remarked that, of the 500-plus games on sale on Steam this week (including the excellent Hotline Miami and They Bleed Pixels ), a fair few of them are cutesy anime games. Apparently "a fair few" wasn't enough to satisfy publisher Degica Games, who today added dozens of other cutesy anime games to the list via Steam's Midweek Madness sale .  Degica's massive sale runs through 10 am Pacific (1 pm Eastern) this Friday, November 10 and boasts discounts north of 80 percent. And while the bulk of the publisher's library is distinctly Japanese, the sale does include more than visual novels, dating sims and inordinately pink shoot-'em-ups—if that's not your thing.  RPG Maker, the entry-level, do-it-yourself game engine, is arguably the star of the sale. Both the VX Ace and MV versions of the engine itself are heavily discounted, an…
- Visual Novel Maker is coming to Steam on November 16 - 20 October 2017
RPG Maker dev Degica has announced the release date for its latest game-making tool, Visual Novel Maker . It’s close, too. The tool will launch on Steam on November 16, only a few weeks away. Time to start thinking about that magical murder mystery set in a Japanese High School that I’ve always wanted to make.  Like RPG Maker, Visual Novel Maker will contain a multitude of tools that will, hopefully, let you make the visual novel you’ve had bouncing around in your head, including free-to-use assets for characters, environments, music and sound effects.  Here’s a summary of the features announced so far: * Free assets; * Dynamic creation tools; * Live2D and voice sync support; * Scripting and extensions of user-integrated functionality; * Multiple resolution support; * Easy game localisation support; * Multiple exporting options ; Got any good i…
- The secret history of underdog game engine RPG Maker and how it got its bad reputation - 11 October 2017
RPG Maker has been used to make games as diverse as weird sidescroller LISA , heartbreaker To the Moon , and plenty of other games worth recommending . It gives users a basic scripting language, a map editor, and a combat editor with which they can create whatever they want. And yet, if you look into using it, you're bound to find people saying RPG Maker is a bad engine. The truth is more complicated, and can only be understood by knowing the full history of RPG Maker. It's a 17-year odyssey, featuring dopey teenagers, mangled translations, cease-and-desist letters, and every known form of piracy. None of this was ever supposed to happen. RPG Maker 95, 2000, and 2003 The RPG Maker series was created by Enterbrain, a division of Japanese company ASCII Corporation that initially had no interest in translating its product for a Western audience. But in 2000 a Russian student nick…
- The best game engines for making your own 2D indie game - 28 September 2017
Making games is hard. The more you know about the process, the more miraculous it seems that games get made at all. As former PC Gamer writer Tom Francis described programming when he was making Gunpoint: "The most useful way I've found to think of it is this: Your game is fucking insane. It is a mental patient. It has completely lost its mind, and to make it behave in any kind of reasonable way, you have to be expecting every sensible instruction to be met with screaming, preposterous bullshit." While it's easy to feel paralyzed by the thought of learning to design and program your own game, we asked quite a few indie devs for their advice and they all offered the same advice for beginners: just do it. Jump in, no matter how scary it is. To help you take that first exhilarating (and inevitably frustrating—but also, probably, rewarding!) dive into game development, we&a…
- The surprising explosion of RPG Maker on Steam - 12 April 2017
Can a game engine as old as the Super Nintendo remain relevant in 2017? If we're talking about RPG Maker, the answer is a resounding yes. After two decades of relative obscurity, the game-making software has exploded in popularity in recent years, leading to gems like To The Moon , LISA , and Always Sometimes Monsters . Since its first release in the early '90s, RPG Maker has mostly avoided mainstream attention, trundling along as a hobbyist tool for hardcore 16-bit JRPG fans. It wasn't until 2007 that the community even established a central repository for sharing advice and distributing their games. Dubbed the RPG Maker Network , it hosted more than 50 games in 2008, and another 74 in 2009. Many of these games were tech demos and proofs-of-concept, small projects made more for the developer's sake than for the player's. Others were fan games, lifting sprites a…
