Uninstall Renpy (2025)

Each Ren’Py game is standalone. To uninstall a Ren’Py game, simply delete its folder. Save files are usually in %APPDATA%\RenPy\GameName (Windows) or ~/Library/RenPy/ (macOS).

Step 1 – Delete installation directory

rm -rf ~/renpy-sdk   # or wherever installed

Step 2 – Remove user configs

rm -rf ~/.renpy
rm -rf ~/.local/share/renpy   # some versions
rm -rf ~/.cache/renpy

Step 3 – Remove desktop integration (if added)

rm ~/.local/share/applications/renpy.desktop
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/

On Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch), Ren’Py is distributed as a .tar.bz2 archive. No package manager is used unless you manually installed via a PPA (rare). uninstall renpy

Standard uninstall:

If you installed via Flatpak:

If you installed via Snap:

Ensure no Ren’Py processes are running. Open Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc), look for renpy.exe or python.exe, right-click, and select End Task. Each Ren’Py game is standalone

rm -rf ~/renpy-8.0.3-sdk

(Adjust the path to where you extracted Ren’Py.)

Ren’Py doesn’t install itself in the traditional sense (no registry entries on Windows, no system files). It runs as a portable application. That means uninstalling is usually just deleting the folder. However, there are a few extra places to check for a clean removal. Step 2 – Remove user configs rm -rf ~/