How to put an RPG Maker game on Steam
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By Eduardo Orellana ·
RPG Maker MZ and MV games ship on Steam as a Windows deployment: use the editor's Deployment for Windows, which packages the game with NW.js, then upload that folder with SteamPipe. Steam features such as achievements are not built in; they come from community Steamworks plugins built on Greenworks, which need a matching NW.js version, so follow the plugin's own version table exactly. Without those features, the deployed game runs on Steam as it is.
An RPG Maker game is a web game in a desktop wrapper
RPG Maker MV and MZ games run on JavaScript inside NW.js, a desktop wrapper around Chromium. That is why shipping to Steam is easy (deploy, upload) and why Steam features are a plugin's job, through Greenworks, the bridge between NW.js and the Steamworks SDK.
Shipping
- In the editor, File > Deployment, choose Windows, and deploy to a clean folder.
- Test the deployed .exe on a machine without RPG Maker.
- Create the app, depot and launch option in Steamworks.
- Upload the folder with SteamPipe and set it live.
Steam achievements
RPG Maker's own achievement plugins track achievements inside the game, not on Steam. For Steam achievements, use a community Steamworks plugin built on Greenworks. Greenworks is compiled against specific NW.js versions, so the plugin will name the NW.js build to use; replace the deployment's NW.js with it exactly. Create and publish the achievements in Steamworks first.
Where Flockbay fits
Flockbay builds games on Godot, and its AI can read an RPG Maker MV or MZ project's data files and rebuild it in Godot 4. Its publishing tools work for an RPG Maker game too: the Steam page as a .zip, trailers, posts and ads on your own accounts, free in beta until 1 December 2026.