diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
index d18c9ef2b38c..3d4ee70e7a04 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/default.nix
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ let
   # 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 = "8.0.3";
-  vc_version = "22090809";
+  base_version = "8.1.0";
+  vc_version = "23051307";
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "renpy";
 
@@ -19,19 +19,20 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     owner = "renpy";
     repo = "renpy";
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-0/wkUk7PMPbBSGzDuSd82yxRzvAYxkbEhM5LTVt4bMA=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-5EU4jaBTU+a9UNHRs7xrKQ7ZivhDEqisO3l4W2E6F+c=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     pkg-config
     makeWrapper
     python3.pkgs.cython
+    python3.pkgs.setuptools
   ];
 
   buildInputs = [
     SDL2 libpng ffmpeg freetype glew libGLU libGL fribidi zlib
   ] ++ (with python3.pkgs; [
-    python pygame_sdl2 tkinter future six pefile requests
+    python pygame_sdl2 tkinter future six pefile requests ecdsa
   ]);
 
   RENPY_DEPS_INSTALL = lib.concatStringsSep "::" (map (path: path) [
@@ -41,14 +42,10 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   patches = [
-    ./renpy-system-fribidi.diff
     ./shutup-erofs-errors.patch
   ];
 
   postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace module/setup.py \
-      --replace "@fribidi@" "${fribidi.dev}"
-
     cp tutorial/game/tutorial_director.rpy{m,}
 
     cat > renpy/vc_version.py << EOF
@@ -67,7 +64,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   installPhase = with python3.pkgs; ''
     runHook preInstall
 
-    ${python.pythonForBuild.interpreter} module/setup.py install --prefix=$out
+    ${python.pythonForBuild.interpreter} module/setup.py install_lib -d $out/${python.sitePackages}
     mkdir -p $out/share/renpy
     cp -vr sdk-fonts gui launcher renpy the_question tutorial renpy.py $out/share/renpy
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/shutup-erofs-errors.patch b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/shutup-erofs-errors.patch
index 519840383b8d..9889c9f8ef85 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/shutup-erofs-errors.patch
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/renpy/shutup-erofs-errors.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-From 1660c8f20ac807fcd0ce65a8b9dc31e646a40711 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 09e598ddf1f6af72ccb6c7c9301abff689e64f88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=A4=9C=E5=9D=82=E9=9B=85?=
  <23130178+ShadowRZ@users.noreply.github.com>
-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 19:26:42 +0800
+Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 14:32:03 +0800
 Subject: [PATCH] Don't print a backtrace on EROFS
 
 This can shut up EROFS errors caused by writing to read-only /nix/store.
@@ -10,20 +10,20 @@ This can shut up EROFS errors caused by writing to read-only /nix/store.
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
 
 diff --git a/renpy/script.py b/renpy/script.py
-index 3e5dae8..8f103c1 100644
+index de35457ba..b7d511560 100644
 --- a/renpy/script.py
 +++ b/renpy/script.py
-@@ -656,6 +656,10 @@ class Script(object):
-                             rpydigest = hashlib.md5(fullf.read()).digest()
+@@ -705,6 +705,10 @@ class Script(object):
+                                 rpydigest = hashlib.md5(fullf.read()).digest()
  
-                         self.write_rpyc_md5(f, rpydigest)
-+                except OSError as e:
-+                    if e.errno != 30:
-+                        import traceback
-+                        traceback.print_exc()
-                 except Exception:
-                     import traceback
-                     traceback.print_exc()
+                             self.write_rpyc_md5(f, rpydigest)
++                    except OSError as e:
++                        if e.errno != 30:
++                            import traceback
++                            traceback.print_exc()
+                     except Exception:
+                         import traceback
+                         traceback.print_exc()
 -- 
-2.37.1
+2.40.1
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix
index 444fe10dfea3..318683f04815 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pygame_sdl2/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://www.renpy.org/dl/${renpy_version}/pygame_sdl2-${version}-for-renpy-${renpy_version}.tar.gz";
-    hash = "sha256-BpETor1dz8qdMM8iYijlthnsrPF0FS8b1FDvuXxFB9s=";
+    hash = "sha256-smJsOVavMvy0aO3C5PC050LlOy5bsG45uWSMbbFMQ+I=";
   };
 
   # force rebuild of headers needed for install