Popular Engines for Games

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1

RPG Maker XP

3 Released 2004 Commercial licence

The Ultimate RPG MAKER for Windows! Introducing RPG MAKER™ XP, the latest Windows entry in the RPG MAKER series that gives you the power to create your...

2

OEngine

0 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...

3

Xash3D Engine

26 Released 2011 GPL licence

Xash3D is the powerful independent open-sourced 3D-engine, aimed for high compatibility with GoldSource engine formats (maps, models, textures, sounds...

4

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...

5

RenderWare

42 Released 1997 Commercial licence

RenderWare is a 3D API and graphics rendering engine used in computer games, Active Worlds, and some VRML browsers. RW is developed by Criterion Software...

6

RPG Maker VX Ace

132 Released 2012 Commercial licence

Simple Enough for a Child; Powerful Enough for a Developer RPG Maker VX Ace improves every aspect of RPG creation, making it not only the latest, but...

7

Spark

265 TBD Commercial licence

The Spark engine is designed to enable small teams to make immersive games. As a tiny team ourselves, having tools that let us iterate extremely quickly...

8

ShiVa3D

73 Released 2010 Commercial licence

ShiVa3D is the developers’ tool of choice for easily creating amazing 3D real-time applications and games for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android...

9

GEM 2

91 Released 2009 Commercial licence

GEM 2 is the latest middleware from the Ukrainian game developers Best Way. Their engine is already well known in Eastern Europe and multiple titles were...

10

Xash3D FWGS Engine

21 Released 2015 GPL licence

Fork of Xash3D engine that ported to many different platforms, such as Linux, *BSD, OS X, Haiku, Emscripten, Android and iOS. Allows play Half-Life out-of-the-box...

11

Frostbite 3

12 Released 2013 Proprietary licence

In development since 2011, Frostbite 3 is an improvement of Frostbite 2 and will debut with Battlefield 4 in 2013. It only supports DirectX 11 on PCs...

12

Godot

63 Released 2014 MIT licence

Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed, game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to...

13

AGE 3D

557 Released 2007 Proprietary licence

Based on OpenGL/Direct3D, it has been created for the development of 3D applications with particular attention to the rendering of 3D data and development...

14

Matali Physics

274 Released Feb 27, 2023 Commercial licence

Matali Physics is an advanced, modern, multi-platform, high-performance 3d physics environment intended for games, VR, AR, physics-based simulations and...

17

Cyclone Game Engine

120 TBD Public Domain licence

The Cyclone Game Engine is a cross-platform 2D/3D game engine built upon MonoGame and the XNA Framework to help make it easier and save time creating...

18

Wave Engine

55 Released 2013 Proprietary licence

Wave Engine was born on February 21, 2013 with the exciting mission of developing an engine to help the mobile game developers’ community.

19

GameCore 3D

131 Released 2009 Commercial licence

GameCore provides the industry's first complete 'integrated development environment' for developing 3d games. Everything from world-building, to Menu/GUI...

20

Blender Game Engine

21 Released 2009 GPL licence

The Blender Game Engine is a component of Blender, a free and open-source comprehensive 3D production suite, used for making real-time interactive content...

21

Irrlicht Engine

78 Released 2004 Public Domain licence

The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It is completely...

22

Unreal Engine 2

12 Released 2000 Commercial licence

Unreal Engine 2 is a complete game development framework targeted at today's mainstream PC's, Microsoft's Xbox game console, and Sony's PlayStation 2.

23

Ren'py

8 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...

24

NAOS Engine

455 TBD Commercial licence

The NAOS Engine™ (pronounced like "chaos") is a highly scalable, client/server game engine, designed to support a very large MMORPG. Continuously developed...

26

Source

14 Released 2004 Commercial licence

The Source engine is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. Its unique features include a large degree of modularity and flexibility, an artist-driven...

27

Leadwerks Game Engine

3 Released 2014 Commercial licence

Leadwerks Game Engine is the easiest way to build 3D games. With a rapid development pipeline, support for Lua and C++ programming, and plenty of learning...

28

Construct 3

27 Released 2017 Commercial licence

With Construct, building games is as fun as playing them.

29

Multimedia Fusion

118 Released 2006 Commercial licence

Multimedia Fusion is the perfect tool for creating applications, multimedia applications and exciting games. MMF continues the amazingly powerful graphical...

30

Chrome Engine 6

2 Released 2014 Proprietary licence

Chrome Engine is a proprietary 3D game engine developed by Techland. The current version, Chrome Engine 6, supports Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation...

31

Smile Game Builder

25 Released 2016 Commercial licence

SMILE GAME BUILDER is a software for Windows that enables you to create role playing games (RPGs) without programming. no programs or scripts need to...

32

WOLF RPG Editor

18 Released 2015 GPL licence

WOLF RPG Editor is a game construction tool that can create complex role playing games. It is often regarded as being aimed at advanced users, so keep...

33

Doom Engine

12 Released 1993 GPL licence

The Doom engine is the game engine that powers the id Software games Doom and Doom II, as well as Raven Software's titles Heretic and Hexen, then finally...

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