RPG Maker MZ News

Five DLCs were released this week, including two from the popular “EX Graphics” series and easy-to-use sound effects assets!


"EX Graphic Base Set Dungeon" is a set of tiles for dungeons with detailed dots. It is recommended to be used in combination with the “EX Graphic” series currently on sale.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3495940/RPG_Maker_MZ__EX_Graphic_Base_Set_Dungeon/


"EX Graphic Monster Pack 1" is a collection of beautifully dotted side-view enemy materials. It contains 38 types (20 types + 18 differentials) of various enemies such as slimes and giant snakes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3495950/RPG_Maker_MZ__EX_Graphic_Monster_Pack_1/


"Listhobi's Library" is a collection of icons filled with designs of various book-related items. It contains 517 different icons of books, scrolls, stone tablets, etc.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3495920/RPG_Maker_MZ__Listhobis_Library/


"Analog Utility Sounds" is a useful collection of general-purpose sound assets. It contains 200 sounds ranging from simple clicks to zips, zaps, and more.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3495930/RPG_Maker_MZ__Analog_Utility_Sounds/ https://youtu.be/MJu21Snzl_E


"Status Icon & OtherWorld Music set" is a set of 23 types of sound materials and status icon materials that can express a dark world view.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3495960/RPG_Maker_MZ__Status_Icon_and_OtherWorld_Music_set/
https://youtu.be/HHpuCuLfAMw

Explore new environs with the Kokoro Reflection's Crystal Tavern Tileset! Add new heroines to the game with Gee-kun-soft's RPG Character Pack 16

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3479440/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Crystal_Cavern_Tileset/

Send your heroes underground to find mana crystals and lost miners with the KR Crystal Cavern Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is here with a new cave tileset for MV and MZ that focuses on all that sparkles! Create caves filled with towering crystals, tunnels where gemstones are mined, and dungeons overflowing with crystalized plants and pathways. A1, A2, A4, and 2 B sheets are ready to build underground waterways and dirt paths that give way to crystal floors and walls. Fill caverns with jutting bunches of crystals and toppled columns, and add an extra touch of magic with bushes, flowers, and mushrooms that were formed from the cave’s gems. Let your heroes visit different mines along their adventure by using the 5 different versions of the tiles: red ruby, green emerald, yellow topaz, blue sapphire, and purple amethyst! Use the different colors to let your players know how dangerous each dungeon is, or mix and match to make rainbow-themed caves.

This pack also includes 5 character sprites for treasure chests, levers, and canoes to add interesting puzzles and rewards to your caves! Force your heroes to use wall-mounted switches and levers sticking out of the floor to shift mining cart routes or unlock passage, and let your heroes pick up helpful supplies from wooden treasure chests. Need to make a quick exit after being a dungeon boss? Set up a canoe in the cave’s river to easily escape! Pick up the KR Crystal Cavern Tileset and build multiple caves for your heroes to explore and gather unique crystals from each!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3479470/RPG_Maker_MZ__RPG_Character_Pack_16/

Give your skill instructors and commanding officers an adorable new look with the RPG Character Pack 16! Gee-kun-soft is back with another new set of 16 MZ-style characters to add to your games, this time focusing on women who could be friends or foes. Have your heroes join a company with 5 uniform-wearing coworkers and a youthful commanding officer who took on the white leadership jacket after the previous commander disappeared. Team up with a skilled blonde elf and an excitable bunny girl to explore dungeons and battle skilled swordswomen bursting with power! Or take on the cloven-foot Krampus in a wintery battlefield and dodge katana slashes when facing off against a foreign warrior decked out in ruffles and a cherry blossom-patterned jacket, and see if you can talk them into joining your party.

Each character comes with walking and downed sprites, 13 front view enemy images with a variety of outfit colors, facesets and bust images with 8 different emotions, and SV battlers, so you can easily turn any of them into a new party member or the heroine of the whole story! Let your players talk the twin-tailed mage into joining their team, or surprise them with the sudden reveal that the uniformed officer they had been getting side quests from was really working with the dark lord the whole time.

This pack also includes high resolution images of each character so you can resize them to perfectly fit your game’s screen size, or show them head-to-toe when your players first meet them. If you’ve been wanting to upgrade your NPCs or add new party members who are all dressed to impress, check out the RPG Character Pack 16!

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! We hope you will be with us for the whole journey!


■RPG Maker Festival 2025 Dates
Phase 1: February 4th, 2025 until February 11th 2025.
Phase 2: February 11th 2025 until February 18th 2025

■Phase 1 Event URL
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/RPGMakerFestival2025




It’s our pleasure to announce that for a limited time, RPG MakerVX Ace, with global sales exceeding 500,000 copies, will be available for free download!
It set the roadmap for the actors, items, database and other functions that carry through to RPG Maker MZ today! Even today many fans love the feel provided by RPG Maker VX Ace! We hope many people will give it a try during this limited opportunity!

■ Free Download Period
February 4th until February 11th, 2025
･URL： https://store.steampowered.com/sale/RPGMakerFestival2025




RPG Maker MZ is discounted 55％ on Steam to celebrate it’s 5th anniversary! RPG Maker MV, celebrating it’s 10th anniversary, will be available at the amazing value of 93％ off on Steam!
Additionally, a major update is coming very soon for RPG Maker MZ, making it even easier to use!
And for those who are already owners of some RPG Maker titles, there’s special celebration available with even more discounts!

■ Steam Discount Period
February 4th until February 11th, 2025
・RPG Maker MZ Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096900/RPGMZ/?utm_source=PR&utm_campaign=referral&utm_medium=RPGMakerFestival2025_SteamNews_EN
・RPG Maker MV Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/363890/RPGMV/?utm_source=PR&utm_campaign=referral&utm_medium=RPGMakerFestival2025_SteamNews_EN


[h2]RPG Maker Game Celebrations
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RPG Maker is more than just the engine; it’s also all the games that the community has made over the many years! To celebrate these creations, event pages have been created on both Steam and DLsite!
More than 1000 games are participating!
You’ll be able to find indie experiences from all over the world, many of which will also be on sale as a part of the RPG Maker Festival experience!

・Steam Event Page： https://store.steampowered.com/sale/RPGMakerFestival2025
・Introduction Video for Participating Titles : https://youtu.be/XU2cEwwKbyU


[h2]ACTION GAME MAKER: Release Date Announcement & New Trailer on 2025/6/16!
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The latest entry in the Maker franchise, ACTION GAME MAKER will announce it’s release date on February 17th, 2025!　And that’s not all: a brand new trailer will be released showing never before seen footage!
・ACTION GAME MAKER URL：https://youtu.be/JSjN67Bc_jo

Designed to allow anyone to make 2D action games without programming and built on top of Godot Engine, ACTION GAME MAKER represents a new step forward for the Maker franchise.
And with plenty of included assets, you’ll be able to get started on your game making journey!
Please visit the Steam page and wishlist it now!

・ACTION GAME MAKER Steam page：https://store.steampowered.com/app/2987180/ACTION_GAME_MAKER/?utm_source=PR&utm_campaign=referral&utm_medium=RPGMakerFestival2025_SteamNews_EN


[h2]RPG Maker 2000 DLC Reborn
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It’s been an amazing 25 years since RPG Maker 2000 first released! To celebrate, we’re bringing back some content that was released with the RPG Maker 2000 Handbook specifically for RPG Maker MZ!
Tile sets and characters, animations, sound effects and voice lines and so much more are included! And all remastered for use with RPG Maker MZ! In addition, the original assets in their RPG Maker 2000/2003 compatible format are included as well!
Whether you’re a collector who never had the opportunity to get the Handbook or you just like the look of these assets, this is an amazing opportunity!

・RPG Maker 2000 Handbook Assets Steam Page：https://store.steampowered.com/app/3478100/RPG_Maker_MZ__RPG_Maker_2000_Handbook_Assets/?utm_source=PR&utm_campaign=referral&utm_medium=RPGMakerFestival2025_SteamNews_EN



During phase two of RPG Maker Festival 2025, the discounts and content sharing will continue! We’re not prepared to release that information, so we hope you will remain excited until it is unveiled at the start of phase two!

More characters from Michael Galefire! More tiles from Kokoro Reflections!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3409180/RPG_Maker_MZ__Galefire_Characters__NPC_Pack_2/

Talk to new friends and foes with Galefire Characters - NPC Monster Pack 2! Michael Galefire is back with another picture pack with 16 characters to add more oomph to your cutscenes. Give your shopping district some memorable NPCs with a cool armored halfling in sunglasses offering up powerful guns for a fair price and a grinning goblin welder ready to upgrade your hero’s armor if you bring him the right supplies. Accept side quests to help out the city from a hulking mechanized guard, or learn secrets of magic from figures wearing cloaks that don’t quite hide their curved horns. For the more adventurous of heroes, have them try to talk to the enormous green-armored alien Swarm Queen and her attack dogs before the battle begins to learn where their hive is, and duel a knight wielding weapons made of magic with words first to see if your heroes can avoid a challenging fight!

Each image is in a high resolution so you can easily resize it to perfectly fix your screen size, or shrink down the monsters for comedic effect! Reveal that the Terra Terror wyrm that’s been terrorizing a town is actually only a foot tall, or shrink your heroes down to explore new areas and show their smaller size by having all the NPC pictures be huge. If your cities have been needing new shopkeepers and your plotlines have been lacking some deadly armored foes, pick up the Galefire Characters - NPC Monster Pack 2!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3409190/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Legendary_Palace__Wendigo_Tileset/

Visit your hero’s bloodiest nightmares with the KR Legendary Palace - Wendigo Tileset! Kokoro Reflections continues their Legendary Palace series with a set of tiles stained crimson where not only do the walls have eyes, but they’re watching you! A1, A2, A4, A5, and B tiles are ready to coat your maps with different shades of red to create a truly terrible dungeon filled with ponds of blood and shattered bones. Start your heroes in a room with textured brown walls and floor that could be mistaken for dirt, though the bruised purple stains on the floor and streams of blood leaking from next to the doorway suggests something far darker. As they delve deeper and deeper into the monstrous lair replace the floors with clumped fat that squelches when stepped on and fibrous red muscle walls where veins curve together to form decorations and statues. Reward your players for facing the blood splattered rooms instead of racing for the exit with a scarlet treasure chest character sprite, and add a bit of unsettling movement to the halls with a drop of blood sprite that can fall from the ceiling into a bloody puddle.

This pack also includes sample maps for MV and MZ, so you can see each tile’s passability and gain inspiration for how to make each map as horrific as possible. Pick up the KR Legendary Palace - Wendigo Tileset and scare your heroes and players alike with bloody hallways and deadly throne rooms!

[h2]Kokoro Reflections Updates[/h2]

The following packs have been updated:

KR Art Deco Theater Tileset:

• Improved movie posters, included sample maps. Includes updated screenshots.
  

KR Art and History Museum Tileset:

• Art updates, minor bugfixes.
  

KR Art Deco Interiors Tileset:

• Added more tiles, plus some art improvements.
  

KR Modern Hospital Tileset:

• Minor art updates, bugfixes.
  

KR Skyscraper Tileset:

• Minor art updates, bugfixes.
  

KR Spirit of Greece Tileset:

• Treasure box animation fix, other minor fixes.
  

KR Sun and Moon Tileset:

• Art updates, bugfixes.
  

KR Tuscan Seaside Tiles:

• Shadow bugfixes.
  

KR Wild West Tileset:

• Bugfixes, exchanged bottles and jars for nicer ones.
  

Harness the power of the elemental attacks with the new Elemental Weapons Pack! Dress up your KR maps with tons of new stones and rocks with the KR Stone Quarry Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3409160/RPG_Maker_MZ__Elemental_Weapons_Pack/

Equip your heroes with powerful weapons until they’re over encumbered with the Elemental Weapons Pack! Bis is here with a massive amount of SV weapons to make sure your heroes’ attacks look as amazing as possible. With 12 different weapon types and 12 different elements, you have 144 unique weapons in this pack to choose from! Choose to equip your swordmaster with a variety of different elements, or balance your darkness-controlling demon lord with a single elemental type by all sorts of weapons to suit their needs!

Give your starting party control over the traditional elements with weapons for earth, fire, water, and wind, and have them unlock more powerful options as the game goes on. Let your barbarian who sticks with rock weapons that look like they were pulled right from the earth level up and decide whether to turn to lava weapons that can barely hold burning magma inside the rocky exterior or become one with nature with the plant weapons that have flowering swords and coconut-laden hammers! Ice and thunder offer up more possible leveling options, and for your most important characters? Give them light, dark, star, or even laser weapons so they stand out from the rest of the party.

Want each of your party members to have their own weapon type? Then choose from close-range weapons like swords, shortswords, katanas, spears, axes, hammers, or maces, or long-range weapons like bows, fans, wands, scepters, or guns. This pack also includes icons for every weapon set up for MV and MZ, so your players can see what their new weapons look like even in the menus! Pick up the Elemental Weapons Pack and give all of your party members controls over the elements!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3409150/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Stone_Quarry_Tileset/

Make your maps boulder with the KR Stone Quarry Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is here with a gneiss pack of MV/MZ-sized tiles! Fill your maps with tiny pebbles, path-blocking rocks, massive monoliths carved by wind and water, and other stones that are ready to rock your game world. 8 B sheets offer up hundreds of rocks to add new details to caves and break up large stretches of mountain and stone dungeons. Let your heroes wander under stalactites and behind stalagmites in damp caverns, and vary cliff faces with stacked stones and worn rocks so even mountainous areas with limited plants still feel unique. Create magical portals and dungeon entrances out of natural stone arches, or build fast travel spots out of carved stone blocks that form a circle.

Want to make sure your rocks match the rest of the region? Don’t worry, each rock comes in four different colors: brown, yellow, gray, and rainbow! Add yellow stones that stick out of your deserts so your players can navigate the large areas, and drop rainbow rocks around the world that can act as healing and save points. As if that wasn’t enough, this pack also includes versions with and without shadows, bringing the B sheet total to 64! Use shadowless tiles when you’re adding the lighting and shadows a different way, or switch between the versions when night falls and the moon isn’t reflecting a lot of light. Pick up the KR Stone Quarry Tileset and you’ll never take good rocks for granite again!