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Best Open-Source Game Engines with Editors
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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.
  Butano
Butano is a modern C++ high level engine for the Game Boy Advance.
  RecoilEngine
Recoil is a battle tested open-source RTS engine that, allied with a flexible Lua API, allows you to implement the perfect UI and mechanics for your game with the ability to support thousands of complex units simultaneously.
  Unigine
An engine designed for development teams (C++/C# programmers, 3D artists) working on interactive 3D apps
 
Drag[en]gine
Free software game engine focusing on developing games faster
 
Redot Engine
Redot Engine is an open source fork of Godot with the goal of fulfilling the promise of Godot.
 
Doriax
A free and open-source, cross-platform game engine for creating 2D and 3D projects with Lua or C++. It is lightweight and promotes the simplest way to use the best performance of a data-oriented design.
 
Overload
3D game engine with lua scripting
 
Luanti
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open-source, cross-platform voxel engine, inspired by Minecraft. Primarily written in C++, utilising the Irrlicht Engine, and it provides an API for users to make games or mods, for existing games, using LUA.
  DagorEngine
Dagor Engine and Tools source code from Gaijin Games.
 
Solarus
A lightweight, multiplatform, free and open-source 2D game engine
 
Solar2D
A Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage
  Luminoveau
Luminoveau is an open-source C++ game engine designed for simplicity and reach — 2D and 3D, desktop to console, from your first game to your next release.
 
Godot
A free, all-in-one, cross-platform game engine that makes it easy for you to create 2D and 3D games.
  Flecs
Flecs is a fast and lightweight Entity Component System that lets you build games and simulations with millions of entities.
  Carimbo
Carimbo is a lightweight 2D game engine written in modern C++. It features Lua scripting and is designed for high-performance deployment across all major platforms.
 
O3DE
An open-source real-time 3D engine
 
Flax
A full-source code available and agile game engine
 
Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine enables game developers and creators across industries to realize next-generation real-time 3D content and experiences with freedom, fidelity, and flexibility
  Adventure Game Studio
The AGS Editor is a Windows-based IDE for creating adventure games as quickly and easily as possible.
 
Axmol Engine
Axmol Engine is an open-source, C++ multi-platform engine designed for mobile devices, desktop, and Xbox, well-suited for 2D game development.
  ORX
A 2D-oriented, data-driven, portable game engine focused primarily on ease of use and powerful features
 
Tomb Engine
Tomb Engine is a reimplementation of the Tomb Raider engine, for the creation of custom levels.
  Cute Framework
Cute Framework (CF) is a framework available for making 2D games in C++. It provides a portable foundational layer for building 2D games in C/C++ without baggage, gnarly dependencies, or cryptic APIs.
 
OGRE3D
A scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce games and demos utilising 3D hardware
 
Panda3D
An open-source, completely free-to-use engine for realtime 3D games, visualizations, simulations, experiments
 
The Mirror
A next-gen game development platform designed to empower developers and artists.
  Matali Physics
Matali Physics is an advanced, modern, multi-platform, high-performance 3d physics environment intended for games, VR, AR, physics-based simulations and robotics.
 
Torque3d
A powerful, C++ engine, built on literal decades of proven torque technology
  Atlas Engine
This is a cross platform toy engine that is available on Linux, Windows and MacOS.