Popular Engines for Games

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RPG Maker 2003

68 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...

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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...

3

WOLF RPG Editor

3 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...

5

Matali Physics

7 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...

6

Drag[en]gine

1 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...

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RPG Maker MV

67 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...

8

id Tech 4

1 Released 2003 Commercial licence

Previously referred to as the 'Doom 3 Engine', Tech 4 is id Software's current licensing platform. Powering games such as Doom 3, Quake 4 and Enemy Territory...

9

Ogre Engine

55 Released 2005 MIT licence

OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive...

10

Visionaire Studio

7 Released 2010 Commercial licence

The easiest way to create an adventure game! The only thing you need is some creativity and imagination, and after a bit of playing around with the program...

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Chrome Engine 6

4 Released 2014 Proprietary licence

Chrome Engine is a proprietary 3D game engine developed by Techland. The current version, Chrome Engine 6, supports Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation...

12

Xash3D Engine

4 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...

13

cTech 2.5D

23 Released 2013 Commercial licence

Used in our upcoming indie game "Imber". Support for: - Input. - Collision. - Dynamic Coloring. - Sprite Animation. - Post-Processing. - Fonts. And more...

14

FPSC

31 Released 2005 Commercial licence

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

15

Dream Maker

73 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...

16

SFML

183 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...

17

Build

243 Released 1993 Proprietary licence

BUILD engine is the game engine behind Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, and many other titles of the 90s. It was one of the most popular engines...

18

Eclipse Origins

388 Released 2013 Commercial licence

Eclipse Origins is a windows based 2D MMORPG game creation suite. In a matter of minutes you can download Eclipse and be designing your own online RPG...

19

RenderWare

389 Released 1997 Commercial licence

RenderWare is a 3D API and graphics rendering engine used in computer games, Active Worlds, and some VRML browsers. RW is developed by Criterion Software...

20

BooBoo

37 Released Jan 1, 2023 Proprietary licence

BooBoo is a fun new programming language with a powerful game API.

21

Imperial Game Engine 2

5 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...

22

Unreal Engine 4

0 Released 2014 Commercial licence

The most world-class game engine to date, Unreal Engine 4 gives you the power to do more than ever before. Bring your creative visions to life directly...

23

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...

24

CryENGINE 3

36 Released 2011 Commercial licence

CryENGINE®3 is the first PC, Playstation®3, and Xbox 360™ all-in-one game development solution that is Next-Gen ready with scalable computation and...

25

Wave Engine

1 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.

26

Spring

105 Released 2005 GPL licence

This page is merely a hub for spring projects listed on moddb. For more information about the spring engine head on over to spring website. You will notice...

27

LÖVE

133 Released 2008 Zlib licence

LÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game framework, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua.

28

Dust

206 TBD Proprietary licence

This is a simple multi-threaded PC game engine built to support the development of all Arbonox projects. It supports both 2D and 3D rendering, file handling...

29

Tilengine

414 Released 2015 Proprietary licence

Freeware cross-platform scanline based 2D graphics engine for the creation of retro/style arcade games. It natively supports raster effects (changing...

30

Quake Engine

17 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...

31

Unreal Development Kit

10 Released 2009 Commercial licence

UDK is Unreal Engine 3 – the complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and...

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