GameMaker is a game engine with its own coding language (GML – GameMaker Language), and it has become quite the rising star in the world of game development. Here we made a list of 20 Best GameMaker Games, so sit back and relax, and see if you can find a game that interests you.
Undertale
Undertale is a fun RPG game, where you have to find a way out of the underground world filled with monsters. The choice of how to tackle the situation is yours: you can either fight the monsters or negotiate your way out; you can become friends with the bosses, and even date a skeleton, if you want.
The Tarnishing of Juxtia
This is a challenging and visually stunning platformer and you have a chance to unlock your true potential while exploring a dark and mysterious world; come across new allies, face deadly enemies, discover rare upgrades, expand your arsenal and steal the abilities of bosses you defeat.
Hotline Miami
In Hotline Miami, you are following the instructions on your answering machine, and play an antihero on a homicidal rampage against the underworld. This is a top-down shooter/action game, bursting with ice-cold brutality, intense close combat, and tough gunplay.
Hotline Miami2: Wrong Number
This game is where the Hotline Miami saga comes to a brutal conclusion. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number has the same top-down retro-style as its prequel, there is plenty of violence and you have to be very strategic if you want to defeat the enemies and stay unharmed.
Almora Darkosen
Almora Darkosen is a retro-style role-playing game set in a fantastical world with numerous different locations to explore. The game features over 100 quests, various items to collect, mining, digging and crafting, helpful mercenaries, mini-games, and an in-game encyclopedia.
Hyper Light Drifter
Hyper Light Drifter is an action-adventure RPG in the style of the finest 16bit classics with captivating visuals and modernized mechanics. Explore a stunning, vast and destroyed world full of lost technologies and dangers.
Missile Dancer
Missile Dancer is an addictive vertically-scrolling shoot ‘em up game with simple mechanics and Lock-On missiles; holding down the shot button creates a targeting circle around your vehicle and any foes inside it will be considered ‘’Locked On’’. When you release the button, the missiles will destroy the enemies.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
This is a complete 5-game collection of the Shovel Knight saga, an action-adventure game series with amazing characters and balanced gameplay, where you get to blast, slash, bash, and dig your way through a fantastical world. The features include detailed animation, Challenge Mode, Body Swap, and more.
Flynn: Son of Crimson
Flynn: Son of Crimson is a fast-paced 2D adventure game set in a dark and astounding world filled with discovery and action. Travel the vast island, follow the rich story, uncover the mysteries, test your strength, and swap between weapons for fast and satisfying combat.
Katana ZERO
Katana ZERO is an incredibly stylish neo-noir platformer featuring very intense action, exceptional combat, and fantastic, unconventional storytelling. And because each level has a unique design, there is more than one way to finish it, which makes this game all the more interesting.
-SPROUT-
Sprout is a precision platformer made for speed-running, where you have to run, dash and jump your way across five lands with unique mechanics, through 100 levels in order to restore your world to the glorious place it once was. Features include twenty achievements, forty hidden collectibles, and online leaderboards.
Pecaminosa – A Pixel Noir Game
Pecaminosa is a great combination of pixel art and action RPG mechanics with a fantastic film noir atmosphere. You can customize your character, explore the crime-dominated city, interrogate suspects, and do not hesitate to use your gun or fists; the times are hard, and the city is tough.
Jet Lancer
Jet Lancer is a frantic aerial combat game, and you have to defy death at unimaginable speeds, fight enemy pilots and hunt the deadliest prey in the world: gigantic killer robots. Acquire new weapons, customize your jet to your liking, and save the world.
Imagine Lifetimes
Imagine Lifetimes is a simulation game about the meaning of life, made with a touch of dark humor, and irony. Your ability to choose and make decisions is what shapes the path ahead of you; there is a wide variety of paths and endings, and every choice matters, so choose wisely.
Crashlands
Crashlands is a story-driven action-adventure RPG, where you can fight and tame different beasts, befriend bizarre locals, craft your resources into threatening weapons, and take on the world-imperious maniac. And if you enjoy a dash of humor with your action, you will not be disappointed.
Colt Canyon
In Colt Canyon, you have to save your partner, who was kidnapped by the ruthless bandits. Shoot your way through an unfriendly canyon, find hidden treasures, weapons, overcome obstacles and face all kinds of vicious scum.
Sea Salt
Sea Salt an action-strategy game with strong elements of dark fantasy and horror, but you are not the one being hunted, it is quite the opposite; you are an Old God, and by summoning and controlling a swarm of minions, you take vengeance on anyone who dared to defy you.
Gemini Arms
Gemini Arms is an entertaining fast-paced side-scrolling 2D shoot ‘em up game with creative levels and elements that make it much more fun when two people are playing but if you play alone, an automated ally, your own sidekick, will come to support you.
Thy Sword
Thy Sword is a hack-and-slash platformer with roguelike elements, procedural levels, and fast-paced and strategic battles. Your goal is to obtain an ancient crystal and overpower the ruling Dark Overlord. Can you be the hero to fulfill this destiny and rescue these darkened lands?
Risen Kingdom
This is a real-time strategy game, where you need to build and fortify your outposts to survive and delay the hordes of the undead. Your objective is to claim back the land, so besides building structures, and obtaining and managing resources, you also have to train and hire warriors, and make use of strategic possibilities.
