Top Rated Game Engines (0 - 30 of 151)
96% - Source
1 month ago Released Oct 31, 2004 with a commercial licenceThe 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...
97% - GoldSource
1 week ago Released Nov 17, 1998 with a commercial licenceThis 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...
90% - Unity
1 day ago Released May 30, 2005 with a commercial licenceUnity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity just happens...
95% - Unreal Development Kit
3 days ago Released Oct 31, 2009 with a commercial licenceUDK is Unreal Engine 3 – the complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and detailed...
95% - Custom Built
5 hours ago Released Sep 1, 2007 with a commercial licenceThe engine used to build this game was a once-off creation, designed explicitly to run this particular title. This is not a _real_ game engine, this is...
95% - CryENGINE 3
1 day ago Released Aug 15, 2011 with a commercial licenceCryENGINE®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 graphics...
84% - Game Maker Studio
3 hours ago Released Nov 14, 1999 with a commercial licenceThe GameMaker: Studio™ family of products caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create casual...
68% - FPSC
20 hours ago Released Dec 1, 2005 with a commercial licenceThis engine is the code behind "The game Creator's" FPS Creator development tool, A powerful, yet rough FPS engine.
89% - SAGE (Strategy Action Game Engine)
3 months ago Released Jun 14, 2001 with a proprietary licenceThe SAGE engine is a game engine used by Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts for real-time strategy games.
87% - id Tech 4
7 months ago Released Aug 2, 2003 with a commercial licencePreviously 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...
98% - The Spring Project
6 months ago Released Oct 14, 2010 with a gpl licenceSpring is a free, open source, fully 3D, real-time strategy game engine. Originally designed to run content from Total Annihilation. Since it's early...
86% - id Tech 3
1 year ago Released Dec 3, 1999 with a gpl licencePreviously called the "QUAKE 3 Engine" and one of the most successful licensed engines in history, id Tech 3 was the engine used to create games such...
91% - Unreal Engine 2
3 months ago Released Dec 1, 2000 with a commercial licenceUnreal 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.
95% - GEM 2
2 months ago Released Feb 19, 2009 with a commercial licenceGEM 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...
93% - Blender Game Engine
2 weeks ago Released Aug 30, 2009 with a gpl licenceThe Blender Game Engine is a component of Blender, a free and open-source comprehensive 3D production suite, used for making real-time interactive content...
86% - Unknown
2 weeks ago TBD with a commercial licenceThe engine used to build this game is unknown. This is not a _real_ game engine, this is a generic placeholder.
96% - Construct
1 week ago Released Jan 10, 2008 with a gpl licenceConstruct is a free powerful and easy to use development software for both DirectX 9-based games and applications,in a WYSIWYG environment. It includes...
96% - Xash3D Engine
1 month ago Released Apr 23, 2011 with a gpl licenceXash3D is a custom Gold Source build from a scratch. Xash3D overcomes obsolete Gold Source engine's limits and provides for you a new quality of gaming...
97% - HPL2
3 weeks ago Released Sep 6, 2010 with a commercial licenceAn extensively updated version of HPL1 engine. Uses industry standard technologies such as OpenGL, OpenAL and Newton Game Dynamics.
93% - ioquake3
7 months ago Released Aug 25, 2005 with a gpl licenceioquake3.org is the de-facto standard in Quake 3 technology post-opensource release. Others base themselves on the hard work of the hundreds who have...
87% - Gamebryo
3 days ago Released Dec 31, 2002 with a commercial licenceGamebryo is a flexible, cross-platform game development engine and toolset, optimized for current- and future-generation game development in any genre...
97% - Westwood 2D
8 months ago Released Aug 30, 1995 with a proprietary licenceThis is not an engine in itself, this is just a term that can be used as a name for the "2D" RTS games Westwood Studios developed. They never officially...
94% - EDuke32
2 months ago Released Dec 25, 2004 with a gpl licenceIt's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta gum!
90% - id Tech 2
11 months ago Released Dec 5, 1997 with a gpl licenceFormerly the "QUAKE 2 Engine", with pioneering innovation in 3D environments, a few of id Tech 2's most notable features were out-of-the-box support for...
95% - LÖVE
1 week ago Released Jan 13, 2008 with a zlib licenceLÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game framework, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua.
90% - Anvil
1 month ago Released Nov 13, 2007 with a commercial licenceAnvil (also known by its development name Scimitar) is a game engine created by video game developer Ubisoft for use on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation...
98% - FS2_Open Engine
1 year ago Released May 1, 2002 with a public domain licenceOriginally created by Volition Inc to run Freespace 2, the FS2_Open engine has been radically improved so that the engine can now compete with modern...
90% - Doom Engine
6 months ago Released Dec 10, 1993 with a gpl licenceThe 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...
90% - XNA
1 day ago Released Dec 31, 2006 with a public domain licenceMicrosoft XNA is a set of tools with a managed runtime environment provided by Microsoft that facilitates video game development and management. XNA attempts...
96% - DarkPlaces engine
1 month ago Released Mar 30, 2000 with a gpl licenceHighly evolved engine based on id Software technology, available under dual license (GPL, proprietary licensing for commercial use available).
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