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This RPG Maker engine, released in 2015, allows for the creation of role-playing games. It has garnered 8,827 Steam reviews with a 91% positive rating. The developer and publisher is gotcha-gotcha-games.
Overview
RPG Maker MV is a 2015 RPG game developed by Gotcha Gotcha Games and published by Gotcha Gotcha Games. On Steam it has gathered 8,837 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the RPG category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $80. The pairing of developer Gotcha Gotcha Games with publisher Gotcha Gotcha Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how RPG projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 610,000 to 1.4 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, RPG Maker MV can be compared against similar RPG titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,837
Positive
91%
Steam appid
363890
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0610K to 1.4M
units (median: 1.0M)
≈ $27.9M to $65.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$80 | +15 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| genre_RPG | +10 |
| final NB | 115 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for RPG Maker MV at roughly 610,000 to 1.4 million copies, with a median around 1.0 million, derived from its 8,837 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $46.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $40.67Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $40.67 to $79.99, averaging $76.26 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $40.67 on 2026-04-01.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
RPGRPGMakerGame DevelopmentAnimeGameMakerDesign & IllustrationWeb PublishingJRPGSoftware2DSingleplayerPixel GraphicsAction RPGEducationMultiplayerMMORPGSandbox
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has RPG Maker MV sold?
- indielist estimates RPG Maker MV has sold between 609,753 and 1,422,757 units (median 1,016,255), derived from its 8,837 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed RPG Maker MV?
- RPG Maker MV was developed by Gotcha Gotcha Games and published by Gotcha Gotcha Games.
- When was RPG Maker MV released?
- RPG Maker MV was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does RPG Maker MV have on Steam?
- RPG Maker MV has 8,837 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions RPG Maker MV within the RPG segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Gotcha Gotcha Games's other releases and Gotcha Gotcha Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where RPG Maker MV sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same RPG Maker MV page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next RPG game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.