anyone know any good free rpg making apps?

[trashcompactor]

so ive been wanting to make an RPG but RPG maker is expensive and there's only like one place i could find to pirate it and it gave me like 10 Trojans :(. im looking for rpg maker 2000 mostly but idk which one is the best to use. help would be greatly appreciated ^^!

[TheFrugalGamer]

This is rather niche, but I'd like to plug my current favorite engine, which is open source and free: GB Studio. It's for making Game Boy/GB Color games specifically, but they're also playable via the web if you choose that option. It's drag and drop and very easy to use, and has a large community built around it.

PixelBox lets you create all sorts of games in HTML5, RPGs included.

Godot is also a free, open source game engine, but it is a bit involved. There may be templates that provide the basics for an RPG game if you're interested in learning some code.

The Hamster Republic RPG engine seems a bit antiquated, but it is "coding free," which means the barrier to entry is usually lower.

Those are just a few I've saved in my bookmarks, but there's also this site: https://enginesdatabase.com/ that lets you sort through various game engines according to various filters. You might check it out if these don't work for you!

[Nael]

Keep an eye on humble bundle, I got my rpg maker at it with a huge huge discount and a bunch of other goodies c:

Game Maker has a free tier and it's great, you can also make games here using only building blocks and without writing any code.

[Tuffy!]

You can check out https://github.com/Ward727a/RPGCreator and https://rpgplayground.com as well 

[grubbyfox]

RPG maker tends to go on sale on steam sometimes. I bought it for almost absolutely nothing many years ago.

I think there's a few older versions of it that may be free to use now too? I'm not sure. But I see you got some options here anyway. In the meantime just wishlist RPG makes on Steam and catch it on a day with sale!

[Nikodile]

I would recommend getting Godot which is a very general game engine, but there's a great software package for it called RPG in a Box that gets you started with great templates/free assets in where you don't need to know much programming to get started. All free!