Popular Engines for Games

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1

XNA

0 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...

2

SFML

9 TBD Zlib licence

SFML is a portable and easy to use multimedia API written in C++. You can see it as a modern, object-oriented alternative to SDL. SFML is composed of...

3

RPG Maker XP

1 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

Truevision3D

245 Released 2007 Commercial licence

Engine is written in Visual Basic 6 and C++ and layered on top of the Microsoft DirectX API, currently supporting DirectX version 8. The engine is accessible...

5

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...

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Frostbite 3

22 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...

7

FOnline Engine

221 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...

8

HeroEngine

156 Released 2020 Proprietary licence

Making live collaboration across the globe possible. HeroEngine is an MMO development team’s dream come true - it streamlines the entire process of...

9

UnityAGK: Action Game Kit

116 Released 2013 Commercial licence

UnityAGK: Action Game Kit v1.0 *powered by Unity *No Programming Required; Easy to Use Action Game Development Kit!

10

Drag[en]gine

0 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...

11

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...

12

Unreal Engine 4

24 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...

13

Cyclone Game Engine

104 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...

14

Raycasting Game Maker

7 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...

15

Xash3D Engine

3 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...

16

ZDoom

5 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...

17

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...

18

Doom Engine

42 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...

19

CryENGINE 2

180 Released 2007 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

FPSC

51 Released 2005 Commercial licence

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

21

GEM 2

51 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...

22

Multimedia Fusion

46 Released 2006 Commercial licence

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

23

Lance

503 Released 2017 MIT licence

Lance is a real-time multiplayer game server written in JavaScript. It provides an extendible Node.JS based server, on which game logic runs, as well...

24

id Tech 4

19 Released 2003 Commercial licence

Previously referred to as the 'Doom 3 Engine', Tech 4 is id Software's current licensing platform. Powering games such as Doom 3, Quake 4 and Enemy Territory...

25

Quake Engine

40 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...

26

Irrlicht Engine

49 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...

27

Kirikiri2

65 Released 1998 GPL licence

Kirikiri is a scripting engine for the creation of visual novel games. It utilizes the KAG (KiriKiri Adventure Game System) framework and an object-oriented...

28

Alicesoft System 4.0

217 Released 1999 Public Domain licence

System is a series of OS/VM hybrids that was designed by Alice Soft to cope with porting their games across different computer platforms. This was especially...

29

Polygon Engine

538 Released 2017 Commercial licence

A WebGL game engine from Polygon College. Publish to Facebook or the web in a single click! Free to use and publish.

32

FlashPunk

54 TBD MIT licence

FlashPunk is a free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games. It provides you with a fast, clean framework to prototype and develop...

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