RPG MAKER AND DEPRESSION.

The software itself can't cause the psychiatric disorder that is depression, obviously.
But if you feel symptoms associated with depression rising, it might start with a depressed mood, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, etc. And those are likely due to other events or situations in your life or health issues and conditions, physical or psychological.

Don't hesitate to seek help if you want to. You can consult a psychiatrist, join a support group, read up on the subject to better understand it, etc. Always take good care of yourself above all other things.

Hm, I must agree with others. RPG Maker makes happy and actually helps against my light depression.
I also dont work everyday on my project. Sometimes I do not touch my game in weeks. (Me slowpoke)

I would mark brain chemistry, stress, substance abuse and or life events before i would blame software for depression. like it could be a symptom that you're over prioritizing a hobby to avoid other things from your life like sleep/social/health/money/prospects. You could argue it's an addiction? But it literally has to put you in debt or fuck up friendships/family to even be classified in that realm like gambling. But yeah classic correlation does not always = causation.

Regardless i would def get other hobbies (that doesn't involve over investing in things) to get out of any funk and not let one hobby define you.

I don't think this program has caused me any stress, and by this point I think I would know by now if it did.

The community attached to any engine however, very much can! The amount of false allegations people will try to use in order to defame and deflower artists and designers more talented than they are can be a great source of frustration. At least in my case I've only gotten two and the first while once a big name in the community (and I cannot iterate to you how meaningless a position like that actually is) was laughably easy to disprove because I keep receipts and have had their name in my game's credits from day one. (the claim was a plagiarism one, the typical favorite of the community's "elite" users, so most people don't take said claims seriously without decent evidence.) and then this new one where someone assumed that because I used an artists sketch composition as a basic reference, that I was plagiarizing... which is just like, huh!? Bruh, that's called referencing.. like are you high? Also the one making this claim is an absolute nobody who is either mad at me for something i said to them (i don't remember, I used to clapback on a lot of people and never thought much of what I said) or a jealous loser who knows they'll never match up to me and is trying to discredit me via these backhanded methods.

They're also one of the people in this community, sadly to say. I'm basically just leaning into it for the meme now because only a complete moron would buy into that bulltwang (and yes, some few have though I think a lot of people are just meming with it because the premise of anyone stealing the moon is really fuckin' funny!).

So yeah, while I doubt the program alone could cause stress, the people you might mingle with due to proximity to it are another story. Still, I do love this community in general and the bad eggs that do try to smear my name are huge cowards who will only do it in spaces where they don't think I can fight back. They know full well how it would go if they tried to make a public spectacle of the ordeal which is easy beyond any doubt to disprove. I've already smacked down on it on the discord for those who have the basic ability to read. (which is somehow not the entire population, utter delinquents!)

That said this is only my own personal experience, but I do agree with some of the others here in that there's probably something a bit more going on than simply using an engine for making games causing stress.