The RPG Maker Horror Festival is an event featuring horror games created by creators, primarily on Steam, using RPG Maker and other game engines.
The event will feature over 200 titles, and some of these games will be available for purchase at discounted prices.
Come discover some of the best horror games yet to be discovered!

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39252092-Gotcha-Gotcha-Games/sale/rpgmakerhorrorfestival


A number of official DLCs are also on sale, so be sure to check them out as well!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096900/RPGMZ/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2286653/RPGMZ__SERIALGAMES/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1648411/RPGMZ/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2945500/RPGMZ__1/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119120/RPGMZ__PearFinch__BGM/

A new tileset from Kokoro Reflections! New battlers from Tyler Warren!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3195890/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Art_and_History_Museum_Tileset/

Create an art gallery for your hero to take a partner for a lovely date or have your party run through dark halls and between towering displays with the KR Art and History Museum Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is back with another awesome modern tileset for MV/MZ, offering up a selection of displays ready to make natural history museums, art galleries, science museums, and more! A1, A2, and A4 autotiles can make neutral backdrops for your museums so that each room’s exhibits get all the attention they deserve. Set up information signs in front of glass display cases filled with bones, spaceship models, and ancient artifacts, or fill walls with detailed paintings and open floors with carefully carved statues! Even if your game doesn’t take place in a modern world, you’ll likely find useful weapons and outfits for your equipment shops and gilded art to add some extra bling to your castles and dungeons.

This pack also includes 8 character sheets to add doors and other decorations to your museums. Have the interior pool shoot water into the air at set times for a neat display and have your players enter new wings through tall glass doors. Hide bathrooms and back offices behind solid white doors, and travel to new floors in style with diagonal escalators! Set up turnstiles that will open only if your players buy tickets, or use the turnstiles to slow down monsters that are chasing your unlucky night security guard! If you want some gorgeous art to decorate castle walls, a museum for your hero to train their brain, or just some cool dinosaur skeletons, pick up the KR Art and History Museum Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3115780/RPG_Maker_MZ__Tyler_Warren_RPG_Battlers__11th__Little_Monsters_and_Robots_2/

Battle even more adorably awful monsters with the Tyler Warren RPG Battlers - 11th - Little Monsters and Robots 2 pack! Tyler Warren’s second addition to his Little Monster and Robots series is here with 40 more battler images so your heroes can face off against even more unique creatures in Tyler’s amazing colored pencil art style! Fight inky purple creatures that ooze out of shadows, technicolor bugs and evolving pink slime in forests and caves, robots that stalk sci-fi stations and are controlled by what may have once been a head in a jar, and more with this pack!

Each enemy comes in multiple sizes, so you could create a pack of small sky jellyfish with one large tentacled monster controlling the rest of them from the back lines or give your players a visual clue that a battle against a huge skeleton draped in blue robes is going to be harder than normal. Not only that, but each monster also comes in a filtered version for a smoother look to their design as well as pixel art versions in 9 different color palettes (included ones inspired by GameBoy, NES, and Time Fantasy) so you could have the same monsters in different digital worlds or upgrade the palette of your monsters as they get stronger and gain more skills as the game goes on!

This pack also includes faceset images for each battler, in various sizes to fit your favorite RPG Maker engine, so they can taunt your heroes during battles or give up important plot points after they’re defeated. Pick up the Tyler Warren RPG Battlers - 11th - Little Monsters and Robots 2 pack and send your heroes against waves of all new foes!

Two new tilesets to take you into the dark swamp, and even spookier graveyard!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3195870/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Peaceful_Rest_Graveyard_Tileset/

Share a somber farewell with a beloved party member or hunt ghouls in the dead of night with the KR Peaceful Rest Graveyard Tileset! Kokoro Reflections has a new MV/MZ-sized tileset designed to help you create exterior maps filled with tombstones and crypts. Create an intimate gathering for family to say goodbye to your hero before she suddenly revives in the coffin, send your party to explore a cursed cemetery where the ponds are filled with blood, restore a small family plot long forgotten in the center of a rosebush hedge maze, and more with this pack!

A1, A2, and A4 tiles along with 3 B sheets can build all sorts of cozy or spooky cemeteries. Create stone paths weaving between tall headstones and patches of bright yellow flowers, or keep things simple with dirt paths that lead to new graves where the shovels are still next to them and a small bouquet of flowers show that it has a daily visitor. Keep unwanted troublemakers out of the grounds with wrought iron fences, and set up folding chairs under a black canopy for families to gather when saying goodbye. Ruined versions of the tombstones, fences, and flowers can help show just how long it has been since the last person had visited a grave, or destroy a village’s graveyard if the heroes don’t defeat a necromancer in time! So if your game needs a creepy cemetery or you want a calm area where your heroes can remind themselves why they fight, pick up the KR Peaceful Rest Graveyard Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3195880/RPG_Maker_MZ__Winlu_Fantasy_Tileset__Swamp/

Send your heroes deep into bogs where solid ground meanders through noxious water and ancient castle walls collapse into nearby sludge with the Winlu Fantasy Tileset - Swamp pack! Winlu is back with another tileset for your MV/MZ games, this time filled with all the greens and browns your swampland and marshes could need. A1, A2, and A5 tiles along with 5 B sheets (4 for exteriors and 1 for interiors) are filled with creepy twisted trees and muddy autotiles to create semi-safe paths between pools of brown, blue, green, or purple water so you can show the area becoming more deadly as your heroes journey deeper into the swamp. Have your heroes follow wooden pathways over lilypad-filled waters and mushrooms growing out of sticky mud until they reach the wooden huts that make up a swamp hag village. Step inside a wooden house grown straight from the ground and gather the bowls of important ingredients all while trying to avoid becoming dinner!

This pack also includes 12 character sheets filled with decorations to help add even more life to your swamps! Have tattered and stained banners flutter in the breeze while lanterns hung from wooden posts offer an eerie green light to help your heroes stay on the path. Block off the witch’s hut with a gate formed of magically grown branches that can only be opened by activating skulls with clattering jaws hidden around the swamp, and sink a wooden treasure chest into the murky waters while bubbles of unknown gasses rise from below and burst. Pick up the Winlu Fantasy Tileset - Swamp pack and send your heroes on a wild adventure to save a cursed princess or just add a new gorgeous area for your players to explore!


Winlu Fantasy Interior Tileset

• Complete pixelart improvement of all tiles and sprites
  
• Alchemy Table improvement

Winlu Fantasy Dungeon Tileset

• Complete pixelart improvement of all tiles and sprites

Character Generator Expansion Plugin

• Fixed an issue where changing the color of the same material caused a delay in screen loading. Before this fix, processing the same material simultaneously would result in errors. After the fix, opening the menu also becomes smoother.

Otani Pixel Fantasy Enemy Pack Vol.1, Vol.2, Vol.3

• Terms of use is changed from "RPG Maker use only" to "Any engine OK"
  
• 30 more variant files are added

RPG Maker MZ has been updated to v1.8.1.
This is a minor update which focuses on bug fixes.
The updates are;

• Added an option "Enable Message Skip" which enables users to skip message waits when the action button is being pressed and held.
  
• Fixed an issue where files in the "Texture" and/or the "Model" folders which are located in the "effects" folder as a sub-folder were unintentionally removed when a game was deployed with the "Exclude unused files" option enabled.
  
• Fixed an issue where file specification for "Plugin Command" were missing after a file in a sub-folder was specified and the dialog was re-opened.
  
• Fixed an issue where the scroll position did not return home after a certain process was done on the Equipment screen.
  
• Fixed an issue where a dying actor with "Substitute" trait was not protected by another actor with "Substitute" trait.
  
• Improved "Batch Entry" functionality for "Show Text"; Empty lines at the end of the texts are now removed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the menu bar was unintentionally shown at a distant position on a multi-monitor environment.
  
• Fixed an issue where full-width characters were not shown correctly for the preview of "Show Text" on the Event Editor if the name of the project contains half-width spaces.
  
• Fixed an issue where parameters lost the edited values if a plugin parameter was collapsed, other parameter was edited and then the collapsed paramter was re-opened.
  
• Fixed an issue where the zoom rate of the Map Editor was unintentionally over the upper limit and under the lower limit when the tile size was changed.
  
• Updated a launch plugin "StartUpFullScreen.js" (located in \dlc\BasicResources\plugins\launch).
  
• Updated an official plugin "UniqueDataLoader.js" (located in \dlc\BasicResources\plugins\official).
  
• Updated a tileset image "World_A1".

This week, a new tile set series, a collection of songs, and a collection of Enemy assets are available in the popular Tile Set series.


"NEONPIXEL - Mega Dark Medieval Age" is a tile set perfect for expressing a medieval dark fantasy world. Seasonal differences are also available, so you can choose according to the story you want to create.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3180920/RPG_Maker_MZ__NEONPIXEL__Mega_Dark_Medieval_Age/


"NATHUHARUCA Green Tilesets" is a tile set focusing on flowers, plants, and trees that add color to the city and indoors. It contains 15 basic tile types and a large volume of 67 sheets including differentials!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3180890/RPG_Maker_MZ__NATHUHARUCA_Green_Tilesets/


"Demon Lord Army Set 2" is a collection of side-view enemy images. The set includes 168 images, including diffs, as well as face sets and battle backgrounds.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3180950/RPG_Maker_MZ__Demon_Lord_Army_Set_2/


"Labyrinths around the World" is a unique collection of BGM with the theme of ‘low difficulty early stage dungeon BGM’. It includes various variations of dungeon music, such as dimly lit caves and ruins.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3180900/RPG_Maker_MZ__Labyrinths_around_the_World/
https://youtu.be/QgupCGltda8


"Nid Retro RPG BGM vol.1" is a collection of songs that give the RPG a nostalgic atmosphere. It contains a total of 24 tracks, including dungeon, battle, and ME tracks.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3180910/RPG_Maker_MZ__Nid_Retro_RPG_BGM_vol1/
https://youtu.be/8xH_wgNBE8k


"Leila's Farming Game Soundtrack" is a collection of music inspired by farm RPG games. It is recommended for background music for farm and rural maps.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3180940/RPG_Maker_MZ__Leilas_Farming_Game_Soundtrack/
https://youtu.be/CmpS6JyS7mU


In addition, the popular "OTANI PIXEL FANTASY ENEMY PACK" series has been updated!　Each of them has additional color variations, and the number of items included has been greatly increased from 30 to 60 each!　Please check them out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1715450/RPGMZ__Otani_Pixel_Fantasy_Enemy_Pack_Vol1/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1837120/RPG_Maker_MZ__Otani_Pixel_Fantasy_Enemy_Pack_Vol2/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874600/RPG_Maker_MZ__Otani_Pixel_Fantasy_Enemy_Pack_Vol3/

More tiles from Kokoro Reflections! More heroes from Gee-kun-soft!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3195600/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Fairy_Tale_Forest_Tileset/

Visit magical forests where elves live in the trees and fairies live in giant mushrooms with the KR Fairy Tale Forest Tileset pack! Kokoro Reflections is back with another MV/MZ-sized tileset that lets you add a whole new location in your forest dungeons. Interior and exterior tiles are ready to add natural wood, bright green plants, and squishy giant mushrooms to your forest villages! A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, and 6 B sheets are perfect for making quirky hedge mazes, flower-filled gnome villages, towering trees that contain treehouses in their trunks, and more!

Create a forest with a selection of normal trees and bushes, but slowly add larger and larger mushrooms until your heroes are walking along small wooden bridges from flat mushroom cap to mushroom cap while giant oyster mushrooms burst from tree trunks and conical mushrooms replace all of the trees. Have your heroes keep walking until they find the arched wooden bridge that leads to the hidden fairy village. Create wooden signs held up with vines so that your heroes can easily find their way to the item shop or inn, and build houses with giant flowers on top of them or stone buildings with grass roofs. Have your heroes rest in rooms where all the furniture is wood and the lanterns are made out of magical flowers, let them wake up with a magical buff so they’re ready for their next adventure.

This pack also includes 6 door character sprites and an animated rock pool of water! Have your heroes knock on arched or circular doors to get blessings from the forest folk, and recover their MP with a comfortable dip in the pool. Pick up the KR Fairy Tale Forest Tileset and give your forest-dwelling characters lush homes to live in and mystical forests some oversized mushrooms!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3195640/RPG_Maker_MZ__RPG_Character_Pack_14/

Add more helpful merchants, commanding directors, and plot-heavy nurses to your games with the RPG Character Pack 14! Gee-kun-soft is back with another MZ-styled character pack with 16 new characters to populate your game’s world. 11 women and 5 men are ready to take on important jobs in your story, from nurses who can heal your heroes after dangerous fights to a veteran agent who can offer new quests or teach your heroes a new skill or two if you impress him! Fill your hospital maps with 4 different nurses with different hairstyles and uniforms to denote which hospital wings they work in, take orders from a youthful commander in her dress whites alongside other uniformed agents, form an unusual team with a brunette assassin and wing-eared magician, and more with this pack!

Each character comes with a character sprite, downed sprites, front view battler image with multiple color variations, faceset and bust art each with 8 emotions, and SV battler sheets so you can choose to have each character be as minor or important as you want! Introduce your players to a bear-eared healer who spends her days working at the group’s base until you befriend her enough to bring her out on adventures, or give your traveling a relaxed smile when he is offering new equipment for sale. And as a bonus, this pack also includes a high-resolution full body art for each character so you can size them to perfectly fit your game or give your players a good look at them in your game’s codex. So if you’ve been wanting a few more NPCs in their work uniforms or need to add some uniquely skilled party members to the team, check out the RPG Character Pack 14!

New Sewer Tiles, New Enemies to fight. Two new packs for RPG Maker, now live!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3115730/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Sewer_Central_Tileset/

Make sure you’re wearing some heavy duty boots before climbing down into trash-filled tunnels made with the KR Sewer Central Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is back with another detailed tileset size for MV and MZ, focusing on the damp, grimey, floors and walls you’d expect if you dropped down a manhole and started exploring a sewer tunnel. A1, A2, and A4 tiles are ready to help you build concrete and brick tunnels deep underground, and B sheets offer up a variety of pipes, wall decorations, and trash to help make each path feel unique.

Send your heroes down a staircase to wander next to noxious green or brown water in the hopes of finding a bandit’s hideout filled with barrels and chests. Or let them follow metal pipes along the tunnels to locate where a slime is clogging the pipes so that the townsfolk can safely use their sinks again. Have your heroes follow bright graffiti between piles of trash to confront a young troublemaker who could join the party, and enter the sewer under a castle to gain access to a small jail that’s been forgotten by most of the people living above the ground.

This pack also includes 8 character sprites to add doors and more to your maps. Keep your heroes out of certain areas with metal gates, at least until they pull a lever tucked away on a nearby wall. Light the tunnels with dancing flames and mark a special room with tall wooden doors that open up to reveal a side room where red treasure chests wait to be opened. So if your modern game needs a sewer level or you want to offer a smelly way to sneak into a castle’s jail, check out the KR Sewer Central Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3115740/RPG_Maker_MZ__Tyler_Warren_RPG_Battlers__10th__Little_Monsters_and_Robots_1/

Add some quirky lil’ creatures to your battles with Tyler Warren RPG Battlers - 10th - Little Monsters and Robots 1! Tyler Warren is back with his unique colored pencil art style to deliver 40 new battlers for your heroes to challenge. Get ready to battle armored sea creatures, well-dressed cyclops, angry robots, and more! Have your heroes battle against waves of red-cloaked cultists who can summon living tree stumps to ride and bright mushrooms that can release poisonous clouds of spores, or sneak past them by going underground where green-plated insects live in peace with little yellow cyclops and clouds of living smoke. Let your players explore modern city streets and sci-fi warehouses where robots designed for drilling, floating, grabbing, and fighting roam looking for trespassers, and face off against the enhanced Cyclops Siblings after your heroes beat up a baby sea turtle in the hopes of gaining a special shield!

Each enemy comes in multiple sizes so you can simply pick one that fits your game’s screen size without any resizing on your part, as well as pixel art versions with 9 different color versions inspired by the palettes of the GameBoy, NES, TimeFantasy, and more! Have your enemies match the palette of the rest of your retro pixel art game, or use them to show when your heroes are playing a combat-heavy minigame. Pick up Tyler Warren RPG Battlers - 10th - Little Monsters and Robots 1 and add a bunch of new monsters for your heroes to defeat to your games!

Gee-kun-soft is back with another fantasy character pack, and Kokoro Reflections are back with a new palace tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3115990/RPG_Maker_MZ__Fantasy_Character_Pack_2/

Fill your wild adventures with nature-loving elves, armored beastmen, and dark magic devils with the Fantasy Character Pack 2! Gee-kun-soft is here with another character pack, this time offering up a set of 16 characters who can be party members, deadly foes, helpful NPCs, and more. Complete side quests to help out a human necromancer who smirks whenever you finish a job for her, team up with a beady-eyed sharkman who wants to prove he is strong even out of the ocean, and discover the enemy leader you’ve been hunting was the kimono-wearing princess who can control origami to destroy anyone in her way!

Each character comes with a walking character sprite, SV battler, enemy images, facesets with 8 different emotions, and bust images, so each character can fit into whatever idea you have. Let your players choose between playing as a red-headed princess dressed in medieval armor or a blonde elf who wields a wooden sword infused with plant magic, affecting which villages your players can safely enter during the first half of the game. Or have them play as a furry wolf archer who stumbles into a human strategist’s dangerous plot to remove all the beastmen from the kingdom! Have a pair of bumbling pink-haired devils pop up repeatedly to try to stop your heroes from clearing dungeons, and have a sweet lioness healer join the party to help defeat an armored and battle-crazed lizardman.

This pack also includes high-res full body art for each character, so you can resize them to perfectly fit your game or show off their complete designs in an in-game codex. So if your game has needed some new furry companions or you’ve been wanting some more devil and elf enemies, pick up the Fantasy Character Pack 2!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3115960/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Sky_Palace_Tileset/

Reward your heroes for exploring the skies with a marble castle in the clouds thanks to the KR Sky Palace Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is back with another MV/MZ tile pack to add a new palace in your world, with A1, A2, A4, A5, and 3 B sheets (with a color variation each for a total of 6 B sheets) ready to create marble rooms decorated with golden beds and furniture, gardens that float in the middle of the air, throne rooms with silver stairs and carved pillars, and more! Have your heroes visit a temple built in the clouds to gain new buffs from sculptures of ancient warriors, or visit a god who relaxes in a throne in the center of a diamond-shaped room who can just as easily offer a curse if your gift displeases them. Let them enjoy tasty meals while surrounded by gold-leafed trees and rest in softer-than-cloud beds after saving the princess of the sky palace. Just try to avoid upsetting anyone, otherwise your heroes may end up spending a few nights in the palace’s small prison instead of visiting a relaxing sauna!

9 character sprites for metal cells doors and a wall-mounted lever make it easy to keep your heroes out of areas they’re not allowed into yet and to hold captured enemies in the basement of the castle. This pack also includes 31 parallax images so you can show your palace floating high in the clouds no matter the time of day or weather! Pick up the KR Sky Palace Tileset and create your own Olympus for your heroes to visit and rule!

We are planning a creator-focused horror event, called the RPG Maker Horror Festival, that is open to all Steam games that fall within the horror genre!

Submissions for the event are now open! Other than the basic requirements listed below, the event is open to all games!
And of course we’re hoping many submissions will be looking to use Steam’s Broadcast function too!
If this sounds like the kind of event for your game, please complete the submission form linked below.

■Eligibility Requirements
・The game qualifies as a horror game in theme/tone.
・The game is currently available for sale or distribution on Steam. (Unreleased titles are also allowed if already completed registration with Steam)
※Games that were not made with a Maker series engine such as RPG Maker or Pixel Game Maker MV are allowed.


■Submission Form
Please complete one of the following forms to submit your game(s) for consideration.
※The form requires a Google account.

･For Japanese Domestic Participants
https://forms.gle/fNZGiuiDduRdxGTA6


･For International Participants
https://forms.gle/6a3MpUZoCRKCGXMq8


･For Traditional Chinese participants
https://forms.gle/mkoLDQvr9vLbfM8U8


■Submission Deadline
・Japan Time：August 22, 2024 (Thurs.) 23:59 (11:59 PM)
・Pacific Time：August 22, 2024 (Thurs.) 06:59 (6:59 AM)
※If many submissions for use of Steam Broadcast are received, Gotcha Gotcha Games will make a decision as necessary.

We hope everyone with a horror game will decide to participate and help make this event a big success!

This week, two tile sets for fantasy with different atmospheres, an Enemy Material Collection, and three music DLCs are available!

"Dark Castle Assets Top View Ver" is a collection of tiles and character assets inspired by medieval castles. It also includes walking graphics and is useful for creating exploratory adventure games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119090/RPG_Maker_MZ__Dark_Castle__Assets_Top_View_Ver/


"EX Graphic Village Expansion" includes unique tiles that can be used to represent small boats, blacksmiths, and more. It can also be combined with the separately sold "EX Graphic Basic Set" to further expand the range of expression!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119110/RPG_Maker_MZ__EX_Graphic_Village_Expansion/


"NATHUHARUCA MEGA MONSTER PACK" is a collection of Enemy assetls featuring colorful monsters.It is a large collection of materials containing 30 monster types (total 786 monsters including color differences + different sizes).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119070/RPG_Maker_MZ__NATHUHARUCA_MEGA_MONSTER_PACK/


"Retro Game Console Sound BGM SET 2" is the second volume of a BGM collection using sound sources from actual retro game hardware from the good old days. It contains 26 tracks, mainly up-tempo songs that can be used in action games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119080/RPG_Maker_MZ__Retro_Game_Console_Sound_BGM_SET_2/
https://youtu.be/SW59tluJDUY


"Piano Battle and Fantasy Music Pack" is a collection of battle and fantasy themed piano music. It contains 12 songs with a quiet and atmospheric tone.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119100/RPG_Maker_MZ__Piano_Battle_and_Fantasy_Music_Pack/
https://youtu.be/ls3FUK5zJ_U


"PearFinch’s Cybernetic Battle BGM" is a science fiction-themed music collection featuring 23 science fiction-specific songs for battle scenes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119120/RPG_Maker_MZ__PearFinchs_Cybernetic_Battle_BGM/
https://youtu.be/fJePW1dDw2g