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Role-playing games let you assume the role of a protagonist, customizing their abilities, equipment, and appearances. Through exploration, dialogue, and strategic combat, players navigate worlds, uncover lore, complete missions, and level up their characters.

Uses two-dimensional "sprites", 2D images created and used on a flat plane, as opposed to the three-dimensional models or environments found in 3D games.

Godot Engine - The free and open source 2D and 3D game engine

Games that have monsters!

Projects that have advertised as not using generative AI their creative process.

Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune music, or mechanics popularized in earlier gaming eras.

Games made with ASCII/Enterbrain/Kadokawa Games' RPG Maker series of game engines. Includes, but is not limited to the following:

• RPG Maker 2000
• RPG Maker 2003
• RPG Maker XP
• RPG Maker VX
• RPG Maker VX Ace
• RPG Maker MV
• RPG Maker MZ

A turn-based game mechanic is the opposite of a real-time game mechanic. In a Turn-By-Turn mechanic (synonym), each player has to wait for the other to have played, so that they can play, and so on. This way, each player has the time to think about their strategy. TBT games rely less on action than real-time games.

Unity is a game engine for 2D, 3D, AR and more