RPG Maker MV Reviews

I've used RPG Maker MV for many hours now and found that it is my favourite of all before and I find it far easier to use than Unite. It's got a certain charm to it and it's very well made. It offers a wealth of options and features, that are simplistic enough for total newbies to coding and game creation. There is also tonnes of additional DLC and an ever expanding world of user custom content. I highly recommend this software.

Easy to use and figure out just plunking around --- I found the community to be amazing with tons of add-ons and a wealth of knowledge. This piece of software has helped bring our games "The Tower of Wowers", "CarsF*ckingDragon", "Momo's Mansion" and "Grand Strokers" (and others) to life!! Being a indie game developer using this exact program, I RECOMMEND!!

Impossible à utiliser correctement sur Mac. Le jeu plante régulièrement, à la moindre commande complétée... Inutilisable, donc !

good engine for indie game developers especially beginners pretty easy to get a hold of the basics. it IS overpriced but with all the plugins and support out there it makes it work it the devs are just too focused on making it fun rather than useful. still would highly recommend for beginners

Used this to make a Big Chungus game. 250 hours in, I’ve lost sleep, sanity, and friends… but the software? Very epic. Would do it again

multiple hours a day spent figuring things out. creating animations, characters and items with gimp really helped. The common events and variables helped me create skilling systems ssimilar to runescape. All of the existing creators making plugins is a solid pillar for the community. Creating assets and your own character generator felt amazing to complete. If you included all of the time I spent making assets and plugins for this game on top of time spent I'd have almost 2000 hours. Yes. It's glorified side scroller, but its perfect for what I wanted and needed to make my forever game.

Fun but also confusing after purchasing some of the DLC, it says it downloaded it and it took some time to figure out where everything went.

I like the RPG Maker series in general but it wasn't until I started taking game development seriously that I really started to love RMV. Even after I learned other Engines like Unity I still went with RMV to develop my own game here on Steam as well as a classic Rogue-like game (as in the game Rogue itself, not just the genre) over on Itch and GameJolt. I've seen people use this program to make RPGs, turn-based tactics games, multiplayer games, and all sorts of things. PROS - Massive and helpful online community flush with plugins, tutorials, and shared assets. - Practically zero licensing headaches with tons of available asset packs. - Everything you need to prototype or even complete your own games. - Editor is intuitive and user friendly. - Simple one-click deployment to Windows PC or as Web Game. CONS - Deployment to mobile devices can be tricky for non-programmers. - May run into issues on Mac and Apple devices down the road because of Apple's planned obsolescence practices regarding OpenGL. - Uses JavaScript (not really a con except in this instance) which does not utilize all cores as a language and can cause performance issues on mobile devices especially when using flashes and color hue effects. Not really noticeable on PC but applies to mobile and web games. If you ever thought about making your own game or getting into programming or anything like that then know there are a lot of people out there who got their start by checking out the RPG Maker line.

it's said that it works with mac but it crashes all the time. I was so excited and my experience was bad.

As someone who has put much time into MV i can say this is a great method of telling stories. Not making great games. Now albeit there are great games made in this engine such as OMORI. That game was made by a full team of developers over the course of 6 years (4 because of the engine change in 2016 when MV was released.) It is highly unlikely that someone is going to make the next Undertale by themselves in this engine. If you wish to tell stories and have simple gameplay MV or MZ is for you.- -Terrafino (Head of Terra-Games)