Popular Engines for Games

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1

XNA

0 Released 2006 Public Domain licence

Microsoft XNA is a set of tools with a managed runtime environment provided by Microsoft that facilitates video game development and management. XNA attempts...

2

SFML

9 TBD Zlib licence

SFML is a portable and easy to use multimedia API written in C++. You can see it as a modern, object-oriented alternative to SDL. SFML is composed of...

3

FOnline Engine

225 TBD MIT licence

FOnline Developers are a young creative group determined to recreate the feeling and gameplay of the games Fallout and Fallout 2, pushing it even further...

4

RPG Maker XP

2 Released 2004 Commercial licence

The Ultimate RPG MAKER for Windows! Introducing RPG MAKER™ XP, the latest Windows entry in the RPG MAKER series that gives you the power to create your...

5

HeroEngine

159 Released 2020 Proprietary licence

Making live collaboration across the globe possible. HeroEngine is an MMO development team’s dream come true - it streamlines the entire process of...

6

UnityAGK: Action Game Kit

119 Released 2013 Commercial licence

UnityAGK: Action Game Kit v1.0 *powered by Unity *No Programming Required; Easy to Use Action Game Development Kit!

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Frostbite 3

21 Released 2013 Proprietary licence

In development since 2011, Frostbite 3 is an improvement of Frostbite 2 and will debut with Battlefield 4 in 2013. It only supports DirectX 11 on PCs...

8

Multimedia Fusion

60 Released 2006 Commercial licence

Multimedia Fusion is the perfect tool for creating applications, multimedia applications and exciting games. MMF continues the amazingly powerful graphical...

9

Irrlicht Engine

66 Released 2004 Public Domain licence

The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It is completely...

10

Quake Engine

55 Released 1996 GPL licence

The Quake engine is the game engine that was written to power 1996's Quake, written by id Software. It featured true 3D realtime rendering and is now...

11

Alicesoft System 4.0

234 Released 1999 Public Domain licence

System is a series of OS/VM hybrids that was designed by Alice Soft to cope with porting their games across different computer platforms. This was especially...

12

Polygon Engine

555 Released 2017 Commercial licence

A WebGL game engine from Polygon College. Publish to Facebook or the web in a single click! Free to use and publish.

13

FlashPunk

73 TBD MIT licence

FlashPunk is a free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games. It provides you with a fast, clean framework to prototype and develop...

14

Drag[en]gine

4 Released 2020 L-GPL licence

The Drag[en]gine is a fully customizable game engine and game development environment designed with modularity and extensibility in mind not requiring...

15

Unity

7 Released 2005 Commercial licence

Unity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity just happens...

16

Source

21 Released 2004 Commercial licence

The 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...

17

Raycasting Game Maker

10 Released 2007 Public Domain licence

The Raycasting Game Maker is a free easy to use game editor that creates simple raycasting games in the style of Wolf3D. The finished game needs only...

18

ZDoom

3 Released 2013 Public Domain licence

ZDoom 2.7.1 (Requires a DOOM, DOOM 2, HERETIC, HEXEN, or STRIFE IWAD) ZDoom is an enhanced port of the official DOOM source code to Win32. As such, it...

19

Blender Game Engine

19 Released 2009 GPL licence

The Blender Game Engine is a component of Blender, a free and open-source comprehensive 3D production suite, used for making real-time interactive content...

20

Doom Engine

40 Released 1993 GPL licence

The 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...

21

RPG Maker MV

62 Released 2015 Commercial licence

RPG Maker was born to fulfill the desire of creating an original RPG without programming knowledge. Four years have passed since the release of the previous...

22

Construct

85 Released 2008 GPL licence

Construct is a free powerful and easy to use development software for both DirectX 9-based games and applications,in a WYSIWYG environment. It includes...

23

Open Game Engine

17 Released 2007 GPL licence

The Open Game Engine (OGE) is a project to create a fully featured game engine, including graphics, physics, input, networking, scripting and much more...

24

Xash3D Engine

12 Released 2011 GPL licence

Xash3D is the powerful independent open-sourced 3D-engine, aimed for high compatibility with GoldSource engine formats (maps, models, textures, sounds...

25

Ren'py

8 Released 2004 MIT licence

Ren'Py is a free, 2D, and cross-platform engine that helps you make story-based games including visual novels and simulation games. It uses a scripting...

26

Wave Engine

83 Released 2013 Proprietary licence

Wave Engine was born on February 21, 2013 with the exciting mission of developing an engine to help the mobile game developers’ community.

27

Custom

152 Released 2007 Commercial licence

The 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...

28

PhyreEngine

15 Released 2008 Commercial licence

PhyreEngine (also known as Phyre Engine) is a free to use, cross platform (Windows PC, PSP, Xbox 360, PS Vita and PS3) game engine from Sony Computer...

29

Dream Maker

23 Released 2000 Public Domain licence

DM is a programming language for the creation of multi-user worlds. By `world' I mean a virtual multi-media environment where people assume personae through...

30

TyranoBuilder

103 Released 2015 Commercial licence

TyranoBuilder and its sister tool TyranoScript are part of STRIKEWORKS’ mission to bring the enjoyment of both making and playing visual novels to people...

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