Game Engines Database

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Best Open-Source Game Engines with Editors

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Defold

A game engine for high-performance cross-platform games

2D 3D Agnostic Editor

Flax

A full-source code available and agile game engine

3D Agnostic Visual Programming Editor

FNA

FNA is a reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh libraries

2D 3D Agnostic

GDevelop

A no-code, open-source, free, and easy 2D/3D game-making app

2D 3D Agnostic Visual Programming Editor

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.

2D 3D Agnostic

PlayCanvas

A web-first game engine

3D Agnostic AR/VR Editor

Crown

Crown is a complete and cross-platform game engine designed for flexibility, performance, and fast-iterations.

2D 3D Agnostic ECS Editor

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

Spartan Engine

A game engine with an emphasis on real-time cutting-edge solutions

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

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

Babylon.js

A powerful, beautiful, simple, and open web rendering engine

3D Agnostic AR/VR

Butano

Butano is a modern C++ high level engine for the Game Boy Advance.

2D 3D Agnostic

Verge3D

A powerful and intuitive toolkit that allows Blender, 3ds Max, or Maya artists to create immersive web-based experiences

3D Agnostic

sbox

s&box is a spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod, using Source 2 to create a modern, intuitive, moddable game development environment.

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

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.

Thunder

Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine with modular architecture

2D 3D

RPG Paper Maker

RPG Paper Maker allows you to create a 3D RPG with 2D sprites and 3D objects with a very simple interface

3D RPG Visual Programming Editor

Unigine

An engine designed for development teams (C++/C# programmers, 3D artists) working on interactive 3D apps

3D Agnostic Own Script Language Editor

Bevy

A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

2D 3D Agnostic ECS

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

2D 3D Editor

Drag[en]gine

Free software game engine focusing on developing games faster

2D 3D Own Script Language AR/VR Editor

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

Prowl Game Engine

Prowl is an open-source, MIT-licensed game engine developed in pure C# in latest .NET. It aims to provide a seamless transition for developers familiar with Unity by maintaining a similar API while also following KISS and staying as small and customizable as possible. Ideally, Unity projects can port over with as little resistance as possible.

3D Agnostic Editor

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

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

Libdragon

An open-source SDK for Nintendo 64. It aims for a complete N64 programming experience while providing programmers with modern approach to programming and debugging.

2D 3D Agnostic