Popular Engines for Games

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1

Ren'py

6 Released 2004 MIT licence

Ren'Py is a free, 2D, and cross-platform engine that helps you make story-based games including visual novels and simulation games. It uses a scripting...

2

Unreal Development Kit

62 Released 2009 Commercial licence

UDK is Unreal Engine 3 – the complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and...

3

OEngine

1 Released 2012 Commercial licence

OEngine is a multiplatform C++ engine with an WYSIWIG editor. It's made to be very flexible, and has been used in many internal prototypes, and is currently...

4

Eclipse Origins

32 Released 2013 Commercial licence

Eclipse Origins is a windows based 2D MMORPG game creation suite. In a matter of minutes you can download Eclipse and be designing your own online RPG...

5

Brahma

65 Early Access Dec 31, 2023 Proprietary licence

Brahma is a 3D game engine with a rather retrofuturistic design, intended for small studios and solo developers. It's being written from scratch in C...

6

Unity

3 Released 2005 Commercial licence

Unity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity just happens...

7

GameMaker Studio 2

19 Released 2017 Commercial licence

GameMaker Studio 2 is the latest and greatest incarnation of GameMaker! It has everything you need to take your idea from a concept to a finished game...

8

Prospekt Source

72 Released 2013 MIT licence

Did you ever wanted fully featured engine what will have everything what real ORPG needs? So your waiting ends right now, it is here. Prospekt Source...

9

Klik & Play engine

76 Released 1994 Commercial licence

The engine behind the consumer-level game creation software Klik & Play. It is compiled for the Win16 platform only.

10

PhyreEngine

2 Released 2008 Commercial licence

PhyreEngine (also known as Phyre Engine) is a free to use, cross platform (Windows PC, PSP, Xbox 360, PS Vita and PS3) game engine from Sony Computer...

11

GameMaker Studio

16 Released 1999 Commercial licence

GameMaker Studio caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create cross-platform games in record...

12

TyranoBuilder

23 Released 2015 Commercial licence

TyranoBuilder and its sister tool TyranoScript are part of STRIKEWORKS’ mission to bring the enjoyment of both making and playing visual novels to people...

13

CryENGINE 3

49 Released 2011 Commercial licence

CryENGINE®3 is the first PC, Playstation®3, and Xbox 360™ all-in-one game development solution that is Next-Gen ready with scalable computation and...

14

Bright Engine

103 Early Access 2017 Commercial licence

Bright Engine is a Light-Weight C++ Rendering platform aimed towards, Real-time rendering for both Video Games and Cinematic Animations.

15

Drag[en]gine

104 Released 2020 L-GPL licence

The Drag[en]gine is a fully customizable game engine and game development environment designed with modularity and extensibility in mind not requiring...

16

Spring

118 Released 2005 GPL licence

This page is merely a hub for spring projects listed on moddb. For more information about the spring engine head on over to spring website. You will notice...

17

Lightweight Java Game Library

143 Released 2002 BSD licence

The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality...

19

CryENGINE

154 Released 2004 Commercial licence

Real time editing, bump mapping, dynamic lights, network system, integrated physics system, shaders, shadows and a dynamic music system are just some...

20

CopperCube

159 Released 2014 Commercial licence

CopperCube is an editor for creating 3D games and 3D websites, as windows or Mac OS apps, as Flash or WebGL websites, or Android apps.

21

Hiber

166 Released 2018 Commercial licence

With Hiber, anyone can play, create and share games straight in the browser. No code, no downloads - just sign in and start creating.

22

GameStudio A6 / A7

194 Released 2007 Commercial licence

GameStudio A7 is mature, stable and complete game development solution, powered by -C like- Atari Lite-C language. Suite includes not-so-fancy model editor...

23

Game Develop

194 Released 2008 Proprietary licence

A free game development tool requiring no programming knowledge. The software is based on an intuitive event system allowing to create everything without...

24

NeoAxis 3D Engine

194 Released 2006 Proprietary licence

NeoAxis 3D Engine is versatile 3D project development environment. The environment can be used to develop all kinds of 3D projects such as computer games...

25

Gameleon

204 TBD GPL licence

We've built a very nice platform to create, publish and play HTML5 games using just a browser, called Gameleon. The overall idea is to have everything...

26

Cine Engine

206 TBD Commercial licence

Cine engine is an advanced 2D engine, that supports several methods of rendering. 2D/IsoMetric/Raycaster.

27

ggez

212 TBD MIT licence

ggez is a Rust library to create a Good Game Easily. More specifically, ggez is a lightweight cross-platform game framework for making 2D games with minimum...

28

FOnline Engine

213 TBD MIT licence

FOnline Developers are a young creative group determined to recreate the feeling and gameplay of the games Fallout and Fallout 2, pushing it even further...

29

nCine

227 Released 2019 MIT licence

A multi-platform 2D game engine that runs on Linux, Windows, macOS and Android

30

X-Framework2

238 TBD Proprietary licence

X-framework is an in house developed engine developed by Ironcode Gaming which was based of pop-cap framework. Its multi-platform and uses SDL Libraries...

31

Box2D

239 Released 2007 Zlib licence

Box2D is an open source C++ engine for simulating rigid bodies in 2D. Box2D is developed by Erin Catto and has the zlib license. While the zlib license...

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