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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.
2D
3D
RPG
Visual Novel
Point&Click
Visual Programming
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.
2D
3D
Agnostic
Own Script Language
AR/VR
Editor
Modoki Engine
Modoki is a TypeScript game engine and Unity-style visual editor for 2D, 2.5D and 3D mobile games. What makes it different is that it's built for AI agents. Through an MCP server, an agent like Claude Code can do almost everything a human can in the editor. It can read the live game world, edit scenes and prefabs, press Play, run builds, and check its own work with live data and rendered frames.
Agnostic
Education
ECS
Editor
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.
2D
3D
Agnostic
AR/VR
Editor
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.
2D
3D
AR/VR
ECS
Editor
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.
2D
Agnostic
ECS
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.
2D
Bevy
A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
2D
3D
Agnostic
ECS
GDevelop
A no-code, open-source, free, and easy 2D/3D game-making app
2D
3D
Agnostic
Visual Programming
Editor
Defold
A game engine for high-performance cross-platform games
2D
3D
Agnostic
Editor
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.
2D
RPG
Editor
Ebitengine
A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
2D
Agnostic
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.
2D
3D
Agnostic
Redot Engine
Redot Engine is an open source fork of Godot with the goal of fulfilling the promise of Godot.
2D
3D
Agnostic
Own Script Language
AR/VR
Editor
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!
2D
Agnostic
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.
2D
3D
Agnostic
ECS
Editor
Felgo
Cross platform 2D games based on the Qt framework.
2D
Own Script Language
FLAME
2D game engine made on top of Flutter
2D
Agnostic
Cocos Creator
2D/3D content creation tool integrating a flexible and visual editor system
2D
3D
Agnostic
Education
AR/VR
Editor
KNI
KNI, a fork of Microsoft's XNA Framework, is a simple and powerful .NET framework for creating games for desktop PCs, Mobile devices, Virtual Reality headsets and the Web, using dotnet framework & the C# programming language.
2D
3D
Agnostic
AR/VR
Solar2D
A Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage
2D
Agnostic
openspace3D
Openspace3D enable users to explore 3D applications, from creating interactive and immersive experiences to simulating virtual environment, as well as designing professional mockups and developing video games
3D
Agnostic
Visual Programming
Editor
Godot
A free, all-in-one, cross-platform game engine that makes it easy for you to create 2D and 3D games.
2D
3D
Agnostic
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AR/VR
Editor
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.
2D
Agnostic
LibGDX
A cross-platform Java game development framework based on OpenGL (ES) that works on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, your browser and iOS
2D
3D
Agnostic
O3DE
An open-source real-time 3D engine
3D
Agnostic
Visual Programming
Editor
GameMaker
An easy-to-use engine that makes game design easy, regardless of background or skill level
2D
Agnostic
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Visual Programming
Editor
Flax
A full-source code available and agile game engine
3D
Agnostic
Visual Programming
Editor
TilBuci
TilBuci is a free, open source tool to create interactive content, focused on building interactive narratives like visual novels.
2D
Interactive Fiction
Visual Novel
Visual Programming
Editor
Ren'Py
A visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices
Interactive Fiction
Visual Novel
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