Some to check out, depending on what you're looking for:

Godot

Open-source 2D and 3D game engine. Very flexible and powerful, but also really easy to get started. Open source, so no dealing with licensing, etc. Easy to find tutorials and has built in tilemaps with collisions etc, some basic player control nodes that will auto generate a default script with input. Also has a nice animation player system that makes it easy to script up events. Write your game logic with C# or GDScript, which is basically Python with types and some other improvements.

GameMaker Studio

Another general-purpose 2D and 3D game engine. Trades a bit of flexibility for more beginner-friendliness. Supports drag & drop visual scripting for absolute beginners, or GML, a JS-like language, for more advanced scripting. Also has built-in tile editors and easy to implement player controllers. $100 dollar one time license fee for commercial projects (more for consoles).

RPG Maker

Much more focused and limited engine for building 2D RPGs. Going to be more plug & play, supports simple scripting with JS, but you're going to have a harder time customizing things that don't work how you want them to out of the box. Usually ~$80 but is on sale for $12 right now.

Have you checked Godot? It might work pretty well for this.

Another thing might be Kaboom.js for Browser based games.

I honestly think Godot is simple enough to get something going in just a few hours. If you're experienced with it an hour tops.

I once tried to make a jump and run for my kids out of their drawings. Anyways, the neighbour's kid wanted something as well and drew some castle and a knight on a horse. Just letting the horse run around in a top down perspective was sooooo easy compared to what I was trying to do with my kids' stuff.

If Godot is too low level you could try game maker. That runs on Godot as well.

Have you seen https://gbstudio.dev/

I remember I played with something called RPG maker way back when. Sounds like it's exactly what you're after