diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
index b68c540b39cf..344a83964233 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [
     SDL2 libpng ffmpeg freetype glew libGLU libGL fribidi zlib
   ] ++ (with python3.pkgs; [
-    python pygame_sdl2 tkinter future six pefile requests ecdsa
+    python pygame-sdl2 tkinter future six pefile requests ecdsa
   ]);
 
   RENPY_DEPS_INSTALL = lib.concatStringsSep "::" (map (path: path) [
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     runHook postInstall
   '';
 
-  env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = with python3.pkgs; "-I${pygame_sdl2}/include/${python.libPrefix}";
+  env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = with python3.pkgs; "-I${pygame-sdl2}/include/${python.libPrefix}";
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Visual Novel Engine";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame-sdl2/default.nix
similarity index 98%
rename from pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame-sdl2/default.nix
index 5fe78281c884..3150104e74ad 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame-sdl2/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 , cython, SDL2, SDL2_image, SDL2_ttf, SDL2_mixer, libjpeg, libpng }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "pygame_sdl2";
+  pname = "pygame-sdl2";
   version = "2.1.0";
   format = "setuptools";
   renpy_version = renpy.base_version;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 86f10c04908e..5969289ab383 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   pyblake2 = throw "pyblake2 is deprecated in favor of hashlib"; # added 2023-04-23
   pyblock = throw "pyblock has been removed, since it is abandoned and broken"; # added 2023-06-20
   pydrive = throw "pydrive is broken and deprecated and has been replaced with pydrive2."; # added 2022-06-01
+  pygame_sdl2 = pygame-sdl2; # added 2024-01-07
   pygbm = throw "pygbm has been removed, since it is abandoned and broken"; # added 2023-06-20
   PyGithub = pygithub; # added 2023-02-19
   pyGtkGlade = throw "Glade support for pygtk has been removed"; # added 2022-01-15
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 73ace0d799d5..dcb1f99a85f4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10411,7 +10411,7 @@ self: super: with self; {
     SDL2_image = pkgs.SDL2_image_2_0_5;
   };
 
-  pygame_sdl2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2 { };
+  pygame-sdl2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pygame-sdl2 { };
 
   pygame-gui = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pygame-gui { };