When comparing Ren'Py vs Yae, the Slant community recommends Ren'Py for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D game engines?” Ren'Py is ranked 39th while Yae is ranked 106th. The most important reason people chose Ren'Py is:
Available on Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS and Android.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform
Available on Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS and Android.
Pro Active and friendly community
Pro Reasonably good at creating puzzle and point-and-click games
Pro IDE
Ships with easy to use IDE created only for development in it
Pro Frequent updates
Updated weekly
Pro Cross-platform
Supports all major platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Android
- iOS
Pro Multiple languages support
Supports writing games in both Lua and JavaScript and for advanced users it´s plugin system also supports Java.
Cons
Con Not for every genre
While technically capable of creating 2D games in any genre, Ren'Py excels in creating visual novels and has a reasonable feature set for creating puzzle and point-and-click games. Other genres are best tackled by other engines.
Con Outdated Documentation and official built-in tutorials
Unfortunately, you will have to hunt relevant info on how Ren'py script works. The Ren'Py dev has the working tutorials on his Patreon, other than that you might as well just code in Python.
Con Requires knowledge of Python to use
Con Lone developer
Con In early development
Do not have as much features as other listed engines.