Popular Engines for Games

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RPG Maker MV

1 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...

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Unreal Engine 3

17 Released 2007 Commercial licence

Unreal Engine 3 is a complete game development framework for next-generation consoles and DirectX9-equipped PCs, providing the vast array of core technologies...

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Leadwerks Game Engine

61 Released 2014 Commercial licence

Leadwerks Game Engine is the easiest way to build 3D games. With a rapid development pipeline, support for Lua and C++ programming, and plenty of learning...

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Imperial Game Engine 2

116 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...

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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...

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Unity

12 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...

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Drag[en]gine

17 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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BooBoo

22 Released Jan 1, 2023 Proprietary licence

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

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CryENGINE 3

2 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...

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Unreal Engine 4

28 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...

12

ArcadeBox

48 Released Apr 1, 2024 GPL licence

ArcadeBox is an easy to use, codeless, open source and cross platform game engine developed by hanisoftwares and cutawayshot games for their games, its...

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S2ENGINE HD

51 Released 2011 Commercial licence

S2 ENGINE HD is a complete general-purpose software kit for developing and running videogames or other virtual-reality applications such as architectural...

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Unreal Development Kit

15 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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Source

15 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...

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Wave Engine

24 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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GameMaker Studio

40 Released 1999 Commercial licence

GameMaker Studio caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create cross-platform games in record...

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Smile Game Builder

51 Released 2016 Commercial licence

SMILE GAME BUILDER is a software for Windows that enables you to create role playing games (RPGs) without programming. no programs or scripts need to...

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Spark

64 TBD Commercial licence

The Spark engine is designed to enable small teams to make immersive games. As a tiny team ourselves, having tools that let us iterate extremely quickly...

20

Tux

169 Early Access 2021 Commercial licence

Tux is the engine being used to create Darkscrolls: Last Hope.

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Antiryad Gx

203 Released 2004 Commercial licence

Antiryad Gx is an unified cross platform 3d game engine that stands out thanks to its vast platform support capability.

22

NÖN

240 Released 2015 MIT licence

Game engine for MoonScript, in Moonscript. Open Source. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iOS and Ouya.

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Yeyhay Platform engine

240 Released 2008 Commercial licence

Yey-hay Platform engine - engine for platform games and action adventure games. Its based OpenSDL and Multimedia Fusion Extensions

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Xemplar 2D Game Engine AE

249 TBD GPL licence

A 2D Game Engine developed by Xemplar Game Studios, for android based devices. This Engine is under the GNU General Public Licence V 3.0. Feel free to...

25

Moai

254 Released 2011 MIT licence

Moai is the mobile platform for pro game developers, with an open source SDK and cloud-based game services for rapid development of iOS and Android titles...

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CovertEngine

421 TBD Proprietary licence

CovertEngine™ is a 3D graphics engine that puts advanced 3D graphics capabilities in the hands of any .NET developer, be it for business, CAD or gaming...

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Brahma

16 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...

28

RPG in a Box

10 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...

29

id Tech 4

7 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...

30

Cyclone Game Engine

4 TBD Public Domain licence

The Cyclone Game Engine is a cross-platform 2D/3D game engine built upon MonoGame and the XNA Framework to help make it easier and save time creating...

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RPG Maker VX Ace

3 Released 2012 Commercial licence

Simple Enough for a Child; Powerful Enough for a Developer RPG Maker VX Ace improves every aspect of RPG creation, making it not only the latest, but...

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