Popular Engines for Games

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1

RPG Maker VX Ace

48 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...

2

XNA

1 Released 2006 Public Domain licence

Microsoft XNA is a set of tools with a managed runtime environment provided by Microsoft that facilitates video game development and management. XNA attempts...

3

RPG Maker XP

0 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...

4

Unity

0 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

Irrlicht Engine

39 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...

6

Xash3D Engine

1 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...

7

libGDX

144 Released 2009 Commercial licence

The libGDX project is a cross-platform game development library written in Java, with some JNI code for performance hungry sections. It abstracts away...

8

RPG in a Box

5 Early Access 2019 Commercial licence

RPG in a Box is a tool for easily creating 3D grid-based, voxel-style RPGs and adventure games—everything you will need for building and sharing your...

9

Europa Engine

269 Released 2000 Proprietary licence

The Europa Engine is a grand strategy game engine, developed by Paradox Interactive. It is a versatile 2D engine that can handle a lot of simulate hundreds...

10

Unreal Engine 3

18 Released 2007 Commercial licence

Unreal Engine 3 is a complete game development framework for next-generation consoles and DirectX9-equipped PCs, providing the vast array of core technologies...

11

Xash3D FWGS Engine

53 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...

12

Source

26 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...

14

ShiVa3D

61 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...

15

Frostbite 3

1 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...

16

Pixel Game Maker MV

202 Released 2018 Commercial licence

Use Pixel Game Maker MV to make your own 2D action games. The latest Maker title provides a simple, fun way to make games with zero coding. Also, you...

17

Unreal Engine 4

1 Released 2014 Commercial licence

The most world-class game engine to date, Unreal Engine 4 gives you the power to do more than ever before. Bring your creative visions to life directly...

18

Godot

47 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...

19

Flax Engine

212 Released 2020 Commercial licence

Flax Engine is a complete suite of game development tools made by game developers, for game developers. Our goal is to create the most powerful game engine...

21

U3D

359 Released Jan 1, 2023 MIT licence

Open source, lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine implemented in C++ and released under the MIT license. Created by developers, for developers...

22

OEngine

13 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...

24

Drag[en]gine

13 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...

25

Raycasting Game Maker

15 Released 2007 Public Domain licence

The Raycasting Game Maker is a free easy to use game editor that creates simple raycasting games in the style of Wolf3D. The finished game needs only...

26

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...

27

WOLF RPG Editor

15 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...

28

GEM 2

8 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...

29

Doom Engine

11 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...

30

FPSC

13 Released 2005 Commercial licence

This engine is the code behind "The game Creator's" FPS Creator development tool, A powerful, yet rough FPS engine.

31

Construct 3

2 Released 2017 Commercial licence

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

32

Blitz MAX

251 Released 2004 Commercial licence

Create 2D Games for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It features the BlitzMax compiler, core BlitzMax modules, Max2D graphics module, IDE, debugger, sample...

33

Ren'py

14 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...

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