The official RPG Maker forums, active for about 14 years, will close on December 11, 2026, according to Gotcha Gotcha Games, the owner of the RPG Maker intellectual property [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Gotcha Gotcha Games also announced a replacement forum called RPG Maker Guild but said the old forums will be deleted with no official backup or public archive planned [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

The RPG Maker forums have been a key resource for developers, featuring around 1.4 million total posts. The Legacy Engine support section alone contains approximately 45,600 threads and 280,000 messages, with additional large sections like the Javascript Plugins forum holding over 34,700 threads and 276,000 messages [1, 3, 4, 5]. The forum hosted guides, plugins, scripts, tutorials, bug fixes, troubleshooting threads, development logs, and community conversations essential to game development [1, 2, 4, 5].

Many popular indie games—including OFF, Omori, Corpse Party, Fear and Hunger, Yume Nikki, and Ao Oni—were developed using RPG Maker, with their development histories documented on the forums [1, 2, 3, 5]. Community members have expressed deep concern over the closure and loss of this vast archive. One user on PC Gamer said the decision is "simply terrible," adding they "wouldn't have completed my game... without these forums and the community" [4]. Another criticized the lack of a proper archive, warning years of "community knowledge, plugins, tutorials, bug fixes... are just supposed to disappear" [4].

Posting and account registrations on the old forum were disabled as of June 18, 2026, turning the site read-only ahead of the full shutdown [2]. While the new RPG Maker Guild forum has launched, some users have criticized it for missing features and a poor user experience [2].

Gotcha Gotcha Games ended its partnership with its former publisher Komodo years ago and now controls RPG Maker’s distribution directly [2]. The RPG Maker Web FAQ states, "There are currently no plans to provide a public archive or backup of the current forum once it has been closed. We encourage users to save any posts, guides, resources, or other content they wish to keep before the forum closure" [3].

Community members are actively working to archive and back up forum content before the deletion scheduled for December 11, 2026 [1, 2, 3, 5].