diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 628dca8dbe36..5a1e46290878 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -11504,6 +11504,13 @@
     githubId = 543055;
     name = "Shadaj Laddad";
   };
+  shadowrz = {
+    email = "shadowrz+nixpkgs@disroot.org";
+    matrix = "@ShadowRZ:matrixim.cc";
+    github = "ShadowRZ";
+    githubId = 23130178;
+    name = "夜坂雅";
+  };
   shahrukh330 = {
     email = "shahrukh330@gmail.com";
     github = "shahrukh330";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..73c95c740596
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, python3, pkg-config, SDL2
+, libpng, ffmpeg, freetype, glew, libGL, libGLU, fribidi, zlib
+, makeWrapper
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "renpy";
+
+  # https://renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html#versioning
+  # base_version is of the form major.minor.patch
+  # vc_version is of the form YYMMDDCC
+  # version corresponds to the tag on GitHub
+  base_version = "8.0.0";
+  vc_version = "22062402";
+  version = "${base_version}.${vc_version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "renpy";
+    repo = "renpy";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "sha256-37Hbs0i5eXMjVaETX7ImJCak0y8XtEHUaRFceA9J39A=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+    makeWrapper
+    python3.pkgs.cython
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    SDL2 libpng ffmpeg freetype glew libGLU libGL fribidi zlib
+  ] ++ (with python3.pkgs; [
+    python pygame_sdl2 tkinter future six pefile requests
+  ]);
+
+  RENPY_DEPS_INSTALL = lib.concatStringsSep "::" (map (path: path) [
+    SDL2 SDL2.dev libpng ffmpeg.out freetype glew.dev libGLU libGL fribidi zlib
+  ]);
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  patches = [
+    ./renpy-system-fribidi.diff
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace module/setup.py \
+      --replace "@fribidi@" "${fribidi}"
+
+    cp tutorial/game/tutorial_director.rpy{m,}
+
+    cat > renpy/vc_version.py << EOF
+    vc_version = ${vc_version}
+    official = False
+    nightly = False
+    EOF
+  '';
+
+  buildPhase = with python3.pkgs; ''
+    runHook preBuild
+    ${python.interpreter} module/setup.py build --parallel=$NIX_BUILD_CORES
+    runHook postBuild
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = with python3.pkgs; ''
+    runHook preInstall
+
+    ${python.interpreter} module/setup.py install --prefix=$out
+    mkdir -p $out/share/renpy
+    cp -vr sdk-fonts gui launcher renpy the_question tutorial renpy.py $out/share/renpy
+
+    makeWrapper ${python.interpreter} $out/bin/renpy \
+      --set PYTHONPATH "$PYTHONPATH:$out/${python.sitePackages}" \
+      --add-flags "-O $out/share/renpy/renpy.py"
+
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = with python3.pkgs; "-I${pygame_sdl2}/include/${python.libPrefix}";
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Visual Novel Engine";
+    homepage = "https://renpy.org/";
+    changelog = "https://renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ shadowrz ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/renpy-system-fribidi.diff b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/renpy-system-fribidi.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8c93b75a7b0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/renpy-system-fribidi.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+diff --git a/module/renpybidicore.c b/module/renpybidicore.c
+index 849430d..d883a52 100644
+--- a/module/renpybidicore.c
++++ b/module/renpybidicore.c
+@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
+ #include <Python.h>
+ 
+-#ifdef RENPY_BUILD
+ #include <fribidi.h>
+-#else
+-#include <fribidi-src/lib/fribidi.h>
+-#endif
+ 
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ 
+diff --git a/module/setup.py b/module/setup.py
+index bd16816..f6b8794 100755
+--- a/module/setup.py
++++ b/module/setup.py
+@@ -118,29 +118,17 @@ cython(
+     sdl + [ png, 'z', 'm' ])
+ 
+ FRIBIDI_SOURCES = """
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi.c
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi-arabic.c
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi-bidi.c
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi-bidi-types.c
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi-deprecated.c
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi-joining.c
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi-joining-types.c
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi-mem.c
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi-mirroring.c
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi-run.c
+-fribidi-src/lib/fribidi-shape.c
+ renpybidicore.c
+ """.split()
+ cython(
+     "_renpybidi",
+     FRIBIDI_SOURCES,
++    ["fribidi"],
+     includes=[
+-        BASE + "/fribidi-src/",
+-        BASE + "/fribidi-src/lib/",
++        "@fribidi@/include/fribidi/",
+         ],
+     define_macros=[
+         ("FRIBIDI_ENTRY", ""),
+-        ("HAVE_CONFIG_H", "1"),
+         ])
+ 
+ if not (android or ios or emscripten):
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix
index 00965b4a1495..2d0004cdfc18 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchurl, isPy27
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchurl, isPy27, renpy
 , cython, SDL2, SDL2_image, SDL2_ttf, SDL2_mixer, libjpeg, libpng }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "pygame_sdl2";
   version = "2.1.0";
-  renpy_version = "7.2.0";
+  renpy_version = renpy.base_version;
   name = "${pname}-${version}-${renpy_version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://www.renpy.org/dl/${renpy_version}/pygame_sdl2-${version}-for-renpy-${renpy_version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1amgsb6mm8ssf7vdcs5dr8rlxrgyhh29m4i573z1cw61ynd7vgcw";
+    sha256 = "sha256-iKsnmuSBzfHlIOHUwWECfvPa9LuBbCr9Kmq5dolxUlU=";
   };
 
   # force rebuild of headers needed for install
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index bf0a61c3c2e8..4524288260e0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1213,7 +1213,6 @@ mapAliases ({
   redkite = throw "redkite was archived by upstream"; # Added 2021-04-12
   redshift-wlr = throw "redshift-wlr has been replaced by gammastep"; # Added 2021-12-25
   reicast = throw "reicast has been removed from nixpkgs as it is unmaintained, please use flycast instead"; # Added 2022-03-07
-  renpy = throw "renpy has been removed from nixpkgs, it was unmaintained and the latest packaged version required python2"; # Added 2022-01-12
 
   # 3 resholve aliases below added 2022-04-08; drop after 2022-11-30?
   resholvePackage = throw "resholvePackage has been renamed to resholve.mkDerivation";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 6def62527ad3..6e1b5ad3625d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10071,6 +10071,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   redsocks = callPackage ../tools/networking/redsocks { };
 
+  renpy = callPackage ../development/interpreters/renpy { };
+
   rep = callPackage ../development/tools/rep { };
 
   repseek = callPackage ../applications/science/biology/repseek { };