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Best Open-Source Game Engines with Editors
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  LittleJS
LittleJS is a fast, lightweight, and fully open source HTML5 game engine designed for simplicity and performance. Its small footprint is packed with a comprehensive feature set including 2D and 3D rendering, physics, particles, sound, and input handling. The code is very clean and well documented with many examples to get you started quickly.
 
Crown
Crown is a complete and cross-platform game engine designed for flexibility, performance, and fast-iterations.
 
Pixi’VN
Pixi’VN is a versatile and powerful visual novel/2D game engine. It is based on JavaScript/TypeScript and uses the PixiJS library for rendering.
 
Blazium Game Engine
Blazium Engine is a free, open-source fork of Godot for building cross-platform 2D and 3D games and applications, with the tools, platform integrations, and improvements you need.
  Robust Toolbox
ECS based game engine originally created for space station 14 but other games are supported. It is intended for multiplayer games and it is possible to sandbox the client.
 
Gideros
Gideros is a cross-platform development environment for creating games and interactive applications in 2D or 3D. It is easy to pick up, quick to develop and robust to deploy.
  Butano
Butano is a modern C++ high level engine for the Game Boy Advance.
 
MelonJS
An open source HTML5 game engine that empowers developers and designers to focus on content
 
RouteVN
RouteVN Creator is a free, open-source tool that lets anyone, writers, artists, hobbyists to create their own Visual Novels. No coding or technical background required.
 
sbox
s&box is a spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod, using Source 2 to create a modern, intuitive, moddable game development environment.
  Snap!
A visual programming language inspired by Scratch.
  USAGI
Usagi is a 2D game engine for making pixel art games in Lua 5.5. It features live reload, single-command cross-platform export, and a pause menu with input remapping built in.
 
Stride
A free and open-source 2D and 3D cross-platform game engine that can be used to create video games for PC, mobile devices and virtual reality or interactive content.
 
Excalibur.js
A free game engine written in TypeScript for making 2D games in HTML5 canvas, whether you're new to game development or you're an experienced game developer.
  Gondwana Game Engine
Gondwana is a cross-platform 2.5D game and rendering engine written in C#/.NET 8, built with SkiaSharp for graphics. It modernizes legacy Win32/GDI patterns into a modular, high-performance framework that runs on desktop, mobile, and web.
  Thunder
Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine with modular architecture
 
PixiJS
Fast and lightweight 2D JavaScript library that allows everyone to enjoy the power of hardware acceleration without prior knowledge of WebGL
 
Bevy
A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
  Kaiju Engine
Kaiju is a game development platform where all game scripting and logic is written in Go, combining the performance of a compiled language with the simplicity of modern syntax
 
GDevelop
A no-code, open-source, free, and easy 2D/3D game-making app
 
Defold
A game engine for high-performance cross-platform games
 
Drag[en]gine
Free software game engine focusing on developing games faster
 
TIC-80
A free and open source fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games
  Eldiron
A cross-platform creator for classic role-playing-games (RPGs). It’s main aim is to create games similar to the RPGs of the 80’s and 90’s but with modern features as well as support for single and multi-player experiences.
 
Ebitengine
A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
  Shape Engine
A custom-made game engine based on the Raylib Framework. The Main focus is being performant and only using draw functions instead of textures. When using Shape Engine everything from Raylib is available as well.
  SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software, emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog and many Humble Bundle games.
 
FNA
FNA is a reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh libraries
 
Redot Engine
Redot Engine is an open source fork of Godot with the goal of fulfilling the promise of Godot.
 
Ceramic
Ceramic is a cross-platform framework that lets you create 2D apps and games written in the Haxe programming language. It can export your app natively to Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, HTML5/WebGL and even Unity projects!