EasyRPG Player

EasyRPG Player is a free reimplementation of the program that runs games made with RPG Maker 2000 and 2003, two game-making tools from the early 2000s that thousands of hobby games were built with. Its README: “EasyRPG Player is a game interpreter to play RPG Maker 2000, 2003 and EasyRPG games.” It is developed by the EasyRPG team, and its store listing adds: “This app is not affiliated with Kadokawa Corporation”, the publisher of RPG Maker.

Setting it up

The app asks for a folder of its own the first time you start it; you can’t use the Download folder. Inside it, EasyRPG looks for:

• games/, with one folder or archive per game;
• rtp/2000 and rtp/2003, for the Run-Time Package if your games need it;
• soundfonts/, for SF2 soundfonts that change how MIDI music sounds;
• fonts/, for other fonts.

Games stored as ZIP or LZH archives save their progress in a saves/ folder there. The wiki warns that reading game folders “can prove to be slow depending on the number of files”, because of the Android interface it has to use.

Controls and settings

• On-screen buttons, which you can add, move, remove and resize, with separate layouts for landscape and portrait, and a fast-forward button.
• Controllers, keyboards and mice work when connected. On the touchscreen, one, two and three fingers act as left, right and middle mouse clicks.
• Steam Controller over Bluetooth, which is why the app asks for Bluetooth.
• Version 0.8.1.1 fixed the detection of text encodings in ZIP and LZH archives on Android, now targets Android 16, and added a dark mode for the app’s menus.

What goes online

Nothing; the app has no internet permission. EasyRPG’s privacy policy: “Our software does not access the internet. All data is stored locally and never automatically transferred to us.” The bug report button opens your e-mail app with the log and your saves attached, addressed to the developers, and sends nothing until you do. The video guide link opens YouTube in your browser.

About this file

• This is the developers’ own build of version 0.8.1.1, downloaded from easyrpg.org. The downloads page gives 1 June 2025 as its release date; the file is dated the next day, which is the date shown above. Google Play has the same version. The website publishes no checksum or certificate fingerprint for it; we record the signer, a certificate the developers named “Nightly Build”, and require it for every update.
• The 31.8 MB file runs on Android 5.0 and later, on ARM and x86, 32- and 64-bit, and declares 4 permissions: Bluetooth, in its old and current form, for the Steam Controller, vibration, and one AndroidX adds for internal use. It uses Android’s folder picker instead of a storage permission.
• EasyRPG Player is licensed under the GPL-3.0 or later, and its logos under CC BY-SA 4.0. The fonts built into it are Shinonome (public domain), Baekmuk (Baekmuk licence), ttyp0 (ttyp0 licence) and WenQuanYi (GPL-2.0 or later with the font exception).
• The app’s own menus are translated into Brazilian Portuguese; the language inside a game is the game’s.
• The screenshots are from EasyRPG’s store listing. The game list shows freeware games, which EasyRPG doesn’t include.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).