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CLUSTER ENGINE-GAME-ACTION · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2011-12-17

Game engine & visual novel tools

This cluster spans game engines, editors, and launchers aimed at visual novels, action-RPGs, and 2D/3D development, with a few mobile ports of classic engines. Dated entries before the index show an isolated pair in December 2011, then a long gap before sporadic single entries from August 2024 through June 2026. The strongest traction signal is VisualStoryEditor with 4 stars, followed by KrKr2-Next-Mobile with 2 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2011: 2AUG 2024: 1SEP 2024: 1MAY 2025: 1AUG 2025: 1JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1
DEC 2011SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 7 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01KrKr2-Next-Mobile2★1 moliveai-builthobbyMobile runtime that runs KiriKiri2 visual novels on Android and iOS with hardware-accelerated rendering.
  2. 02solarus-editor0★1 moliveopen source2D game engine that developers use to build action-RPG games, with an editor for designing maps and quests.
  3. 03solarus-launcher0★1 moliveopen sourceGame engine for developers to build and run two-dimensional action role-playing games.
  4. 04Xogot: Godot for iPad & iPhone0★1 moliveMobile app that brings a full game engine to tablets and phones for building, testing, and sharing two-dimensional and three-dimensional games.
  5. 05Suika30★1 moliveopen source2D game engine for building visual novels that runs on mobile and desktop platforms.
  6. 06renpy-sdk-launcher0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLauncher for the Ren'Py engine used to develop visual novels.
  7. 07wickedengine-editor0★1 yrabandonedliveopen source3D engine that renders modern graphics for games and simulations.
  8. 08Arx Libertatis0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid port of an open-source game engine that lets players run a 2002 first-person role-playing game on mobile devices.
  9. 09OpenBOR 40★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceGame engine for creating sprite-based side-scrolling beat 'em up games, with customizable gameplay and extensive features.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.