RPG Reactor
A downloadable game-engine for Windows, macOS, and Linux
The free, open-source RPG engine built for creators who want more.
RPG Reactor is a new open-source RPG editor and runtime built for RPG Maker-style projects, and is a reaction to RPG Maker, hence the name. It has a modernized foundation: a new editor, updated tooling, and a PixiJS 8-based core script.
The goal is simple: keep the familiar RPG Maker workflow, but push beyond RPG Maker’s current limits.
RPG Reactor currently supports opening existing projects and running them through the new Reactor core. It is generally backwards compatible with RPG Maker-style projects, but this is still Alpha software, so not every plugin, project, or edge case has been tested yet.
Current Alpha notes:
- Opening projects works.
- Creating a brand-new project does not currently work.
- The included working project is The Star Shift Freelancers Project.
RPG Reactor is designed to work on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
What RPG Reactor is aiming to improve:
- Modern PixiJS 8 rendering instead of the older RPG Maker renderer.
- A new editor built for faster iteration.
- Better project tooling and deployment options.
- Built-in asset creation tools through Forge.
- More flexible event, database, map, audio, and plugin workflows.
- A path toward features RPG Maker does not currently offer out of the box.
This is an early Alpha, but it works, and it is already far enough along to start sharing with the community.
If you are interested in the future of RPG Maker-style development, try it out, open the included project, and see where RPG Reactor is headed.
Also if you’d like to work together to make the project better than ever, let me know, I’m game.
Created by Psychronic. Developed with the help of Claude Code/Codex/OpenCode. MIT License
Download
Click download now to get access to the following files:
Development log
- RPG Reactor Alpha 0.9 Release!14 hours ago
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
The customization potential is insane!
There's like a micro universe of tools and plugins for RPG Maker but way better and stands on its own.
Only a computer wizard could have made this!
slightly interested in seeing what it can do with my mv project, tho the vibe coded bit is a cause for concern, especially if the code might not be documented/understood very well. I'm assuming there has yet to be external testing?
Test away if you want. I know my coding fundamentals and have developed multiple projects the traditional way, even though the advancement of AI coding tools has allowed me to hack this out relatively quickly over the last few months on the weekends. I want it to get better and better though. But it's not just vibe coded, I can look at the components and organize them and understand them and how they connect to each other, etc, but the manual drudgery is gone now, which is great!
fair enough, as long as you know what you're doing.
i still cant fully believe what im reading .... ,opensource.... cannot comprehend...
We can build it the way we want! Let's do it!
Cool, I already have plans how to use it!
Awesome, it will continue to improve, still some rough edges here and there, but I take the project seriously and it will just keep getting better and better.
Pretty cool Alpha, keep up good work!
Will do, it will keep getting better.