Popular Engines for Games

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1

Multimedia Fusion

45 Released 2006 Commercial licence

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

2

Xash3D Engine

5 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...

3

Xash3D FWGS Engine

46 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...

4

3Impact

162 Released 2003 BSD licence

Develop your own pc games with 3Impact, the free 3d engine SDK with a short learning curve.

5

GoldSrc

105 Released 1998 Commercial licence

This QuakeWorld-based engine powered some of the most critically acclaimed engine's of it's day, like Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, and many...

6

Drag[en]gine

49 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...

7

RPG Maker MV

5 Released 2015 Commercial licence

RPG Maker was born to fulfill the desire of creating an original RPG without programming knowledge. Four years have passed since the release of the previous...

9

GEM 2

41 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

M.U.G.E.N

1 Released 2001 GPL licence

M.U.G.E.N, a 2D fighting game engine, originally released in 1999. M.U.G.E.N is designed to be highly customizable, allowing very fine control over each...

11

Unity

7 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...

12

Unreal Development Kit

46 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...

13

WOLF RPG Editor

7 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...

14

RPG Maker XP

13 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...

16

Prospekt Source

5 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...

17

RPG in a Box

15 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...

18

ZDoom

45 Released 2013 Public Domain licence

ZDoom 2.7.1 (Requires a DOOM, DOOM 2, HERETIC, HEXEN, or STRIFE IWAD) ZDoom is an enhanced port of the official DOOM source code to Win32. As such, it...

19

Unreal Engine 3

5 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...

20

Clausewitz Engine

41 Released 2007 Proprietary licence

Originally developed for Europa Universalis III, it has been used in every game developed by Paradox Development Studio since. The engine provides a 3D...

21

Quake Engine

84 Released 1996 GPL licence

The Quake engine is the game engine that was written to power 1996's Quake, written by id Software. It featured true 3D realtime rendering and is now...

22

Cyclone Game Engine

11 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...

23

Anvil

11 Released 2007 Proprietary licence

Anvil (also known by its development name Scimitar) is a game engine created by video game developer Ubisoft for use on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation...

24

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...

25

Unreal Engine 4

34 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...

26

RPG Maker VX Ace

52 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...

27

EDuke32

85 Released 2004 GPL licence

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta gum!

28

Vulkan4D

557 TBD Commercial licence

Vulkan-exclusive Game Engine for developing Multiplayer Open-World Space Games. This Engine is developed for the Galaxy4D space sim.

29

Ren'py

4 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...

30

SHMUP Creator

36 TBD Commercial licence

The Shmup Creator is a tool that will help you create your own shoot'em up and easily build your levels without coding at all!

31

Tomb Raider Level Editor

207 Released 1999 Commercial licence

The Tomb Raider Level Editor (also known as winroomedit and commonly abbreviated TRLE) is a package of tools used to create game levels for Tomb Raider...

32

Schmetterling

371 TBD Proprietary licence

EXOR Studios' proprietary game engine. X-Morph: Defense is the first game using this engine.

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