Gotcha Gotcha Games, the Kadokawa Corporation-owned subsidiary and IP rights holder of the RPG Maker franchise, has announced that the 14-year-old RPG Maker Forum will be closing on December 11, 2026. While a new forum, named RPG Maker Guild, will be taking RPG Maker Forum’s place, Gotcha Gotcha Games has stated that it will not be archiving the original forum’s contents, and the RPG Maker fanbase is now rushing to back up its resources.
The original forum’s closure was announced yesterday in an official post on the RPG Maker Forum, alongside a FAQ explaining Gotcha Gotcha Games’ decision to sunset the website. “There are currently no plans to provide a public archive or backup of the current forum once it has been closed,” reads the FAQ. “We encourage users to save any posts, guides, resources, or other content they wish to keep before the forum closure.”
Actual Burning of Alexandria moment.
This will also lead to thousands of plugins and scripts being permanently lost.
This will directly lead to RPG Maker games becoming worse and less interesting, and the software harder to use and less feature-rich. https://t.co/DAkAUyH7Yp— Karbonic (@Karbonicc) June 12, 2026
The community is, understandably, not taking the news well, with multiple posts on X likening the forum’s closure to the burning of Alexandria. While it might sound somewhat dramatic to some, it’s no exaggeration to compare the sheer scope of the RPG Maker resources at risk to the ancient library. According to Eurogamer, the Legacy Engine support topic on the forum alone “contains roughly 45,600 threads and 280,000 messages.”
Likewise, it’s not just the work of budding developers that’s at risk here. Dozens of high-profile indie games, including the likes of OFF, Omori, Corpse Party, Fear and Hunger, Ao Oni, and Yume Nikke, were created using a version of RPG Maker, and the history of these games’ development is housed within posts on the RPG Maker Forum.
Thankfully, while the work required to back up the original forum won’t be easy, Gotcha Gotcha Games’ six-month-long warning has given RPG Maker fans plenty of time to back up its content, and one proactive fan has even enlisted the help of the r/DataHoarders subreddit in a bid to preserve its resources.
