

The RPG Engine
PolyDemons · September 8, 2023 · Tabletop, Choose Your Own Adventure, Sandbox, Building, Exploration
The RPG Engine is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.
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The RPG Engine is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.
About The RPG Engine
- Build new custom maps and form them into campaigns.
- Terrain Sculpting: Mold the landscape, including overhangs and caves, and paint the terrain.
- Interactive Props: Populate your world with items for players to discover.
- Character Creation: Develop custom characters with various skin tones, hair, features, and clothing.
- Dynamic Control: Equip and unequip weapons and items, and import images as flat maps, signs, or standee characters.
- Add premade or construct kitbashed weapons, items, and gear to your world.
- Custom Servers: If you know someone with the Builders or GameMasters DLC; host a server that they can join.
- Exploration: Navigate through custom-built environments.
- Character Control: Animate and control your characters seamlessly.
- Assign standardized and custom characters to your players, enhancing their agency as you see fit.
- Combat Visualization: Engage in thrilling combat scenarios.
- Real-Time Communication: Chat with fellow players to enhance storytelling.
- Special Effects: Enhance your narrative with stunning visual effects.
Assets created in game can be shared with others- this includes maps, characters, special items, and player sheets.
We believe in sharing and growing our creations as a community, as such, workshop sharing will always remain free.
Beyond TTRPGsThe RPG Engine's versatile interface is perfect for various creative applications, such as:
- Brainstorming Sessions
- Storyboarding Projects
- Visual Storytelling
- Level Design Prototyping
The RPG Engine — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Player modes
- Single-player, Online co-op
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Small edit: As of writing, this software has not gotten an update in almost a year and a half despite constant promises of updates by the dev. This has all but been abandoned. This is a neat as a proof of concept but terrible as an actual usable VTT. Terrain manipulation is simple but has lots of missing features, no smoothing, or flattening options for example. Assets are generic store bought Unity low poly models and so, while they look nice enough, lack any kind of specialization for many systems, meaning that for anything that isn't generic stuff like dragons or goblins you likely need to use 2d billboard tokens. Building is clunky with no hotkeys to switch between move, rotate, or scale, no hotkey to turn on continuous placement, or to move props up or down. The grid also only applies to the ground and not props, meaning that buildings or props will cover it making setting anything inside buildings tough to do if you can even find the assets as most assets are mixed settings thrown together in very generic and sometimes vague folders. Some assets are also non-functional, with some lamps giving off light, and some just being generic props, some doors can open, some the GM …12 found this helpful
help my screen is stuck being squished after i tried fixing the lag and its weird i forgot the settings and i messed around with the top 21 found this helpful
Great VTT. The map designer is very complete and pretty easy to use. The character builder is very easy to use and intergrates well into the VTT but I find the options for creating characters of other races such as a dwarf or another non human race to be a bit more limiting than I would like. Overall the experience seems great up until now and very intuitive. The web page integration is also an interesting part of this VTT.
this is so good; cant wait for the future of this engine!
Definitely worth the price. the mapmaking tools are amazing.
wanted a 3d vtt. this is great but does lack some customization options with props and characters (recolor ship trim but not the entire ship, make characters always spawn in with their weapons easily, etc.) but it's really powerful and takes less setup than a physical tabletop with similar results. i chose this for the animations bc its sick, and all that's really left to be desired is the QoL and some small improvements like letting dragons actually fly
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