Popular Engines for Games

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1

Mirage Legacy 2D ORPG Engine

269 Released 2013 GPL licence

Unleash the power of a simple yet dynamic engine with the Mirage Legacy, a packed and fully-loaded engine to meet the requirements of your game development...

2

RPG Maker XP

1 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...

3

Xash3D FWGS Engine

37 Released 2015 GPL licence

Fork of Xash3D engine that ported to many different platforms, such as Linux, *BSD, OS X, Haiku, Emscripten, Android and iOS. Allows play Half-Life out-of-the-box...

4

RPG Maker 2003

62 Released 2002 Commercial licence

Three years after RPG Maker 2000, RPG Maker 2003 came along. This release fixes many of the drawbacks of RPG Maker 2000 and features many completely revamped...

5

Realm Crafting

164 Released Oct 27, 2023 MIT licence

Realm Crafting is a browser-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) publisher designed to create games that many people can play...

6

GameStudio A6 / A7

166 Released 2007 Commercial licence

GameStudio A7 is mature, stable and complete game development solution, powered by -C like- Atari Lite-C language. Suite includes not-so-fancy model editor...

7

WOLF RPG Editor

56 Released 2015 GPL licence

WOLF RPG Editor is a game construction tool that can create complex role playing games. It is often regarded as being aimed at advanced users, so keep...

9

Imperial Game Engine 2

39 Early Access 2007 Commercial licence

Imperial Game Engine 2- academicall class of an game engine.'Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt' (by the ancient-roman poet Juvenal)AAA...

10

Xash3D Engine

8 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...

11

jMonkeyEngine

44 Released 2009 BSD licence

jMonkeyEngine is a game development suite made especially for game developers who want to create 3D games with modern technology standards. The software...

12

FPSC

6 Released 2005 Commercial licence

This engine is the code behind "The game Creator's" FPS Creator development tool, A powerful, yet rough FPS engine.

14

TyranoBuilder

9 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...

15

RCCE2

2 Released 2015 Commercial licence

Realm Crafter Community Edition is a continuation of development of SolStar Games’ Realm Crafter Standard. It comes packaged with every tool you would...

16

Ren'py

72 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...

17

GEM 2

72 Released 2009 Commercial licence

GEM 2 is the latest middleware from the Ukrainian game developers Best Way. Their engine is already well known in Eastern Europe and multiple titles were...

18

DarkBASIC Professional

76 Released 2004 Commercial licence

DarkBASIC Professional is the most advanced games development package built on the BASIC language currently available. No other package out there makes...

19

GoldSrc

115 Released 1998 Commercial licence

This QuakeWorld-based engine powered some of the most critically acclaimed engine's of it's day, like Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, and many...

20

XNA

116 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...

21

Flax Engine

321 Released 2020 Commercial licence

Flax Engine is a complete suite of game development tools made by game developers, for game developers. Our goal is to create the most powerful game engine...

22

ShiVa3D

14 Released 2010 Commercial licence

ShiVa3D is the developers’ tool of choice for easily creating amazing 3D real-time applications and games for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android...

24

Brahma

3 Early Access Dec 31, 2023 Proprietary licence

Brahma is a 3D game engine with a rather retrofuturistic design, intended for small studios and solo developers. It's being written from scratch in C...

25

PhyreEngine

4 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...

27

Matali Physics

21 Released Feb 27, 2023 Commercial licence

Matali Physics is an advanced, modern, multi-platform, high-performance 3d physics environment intended for games, VR, AR, physics-based simulations and...

28

Unity

21 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...

29

RPG in a Box

12 Early Access 2019 Commercial licence

RPG in a Box is a tool for easily creating 3D grid-based, voxel-style RPGs and adventure games—everything you will need for building and sharing your...

30

ZDoom

4 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...

31

CryENGINE

143 Released 2004 Commercial licence

Real time editing, bump mapping, dynamic lights, network system, integrated physics system, shaders, shadows and a dynamic music system are just some...

32

Wave Engine

22 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.

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Blitz MAX

22 Released 2004 Commercial licence

Create 2D Games for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It features the BlitzMax compiler, core BlitzMax modules, Max2D graphics module, IDE, debugger, sample...

34

Unreal Engine 5

22 TBD Commercial licence

The world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool, Unreal Engine 5 will be available in preview in early 2021, and in full release late...

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