Popular Engines for Games

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1

Xash3D Engine

6 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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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

Multimedia Fusion

43 Released 2006 Commercial licence

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

5

Unreal Development Kit

53 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...

6

WOLF RPG Editor

0 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...

7

Xash3D FWGS Engine

42 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...

8

RPG Maker MV

4 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...

9

OEngine

7 Released 2012 Commercial licence

OEngine is a multiplatform C++ engine with an WYSIWIG editor. It's made to be very flexible, and has been used in many internal prototypes, and is currently...

10

Unity

8 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...

12

Tilengine

128 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...

13

Irrlicht Engine

194 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...

14

RPG in a Box

18 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...

15

Unreal Engine 3

1 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...

16

CryENGINE 3

7 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...

17

M.U.G.E.N

8 Released 2001 GPL licence

M.U.G.E.N, a 2D fighting game engine, originally released in 1999. M.U.G.E.N is designed to be highly customizable, allowing very fine control over each...

18

GoldSrc

92 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...

19

3Impact

147 Released 2003 BSD licence

Develop your own pc games with 3Impact, the free 3d engine SDK with a short learning curve.

20

Backbone Game Engine

501 Released 2014 MIT licence

An elementary HTML5 Canvas game engine built on Backbone. Specialized for 2D platformers, and optimized for mobile. Backbone Game Engine was written to...

21

CloakNT

512 TBD Commercial licence

CloakNT is 3D graphics engine made by Cauldron Ltd in Slovakia. Engine used in: Chaser, Gene Troopers, The History Channel: Civil War, The History Channel...

22

Drag[en]gine

33 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...

23

Anvil

11 Released 2007 Proprietary licence

Anvil (also known by its development name Scimitar) is a game engine created by video game developer Ubisoft for use on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation...

24

Doom Engine

12 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...

25

Unreal Engine 4

34 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...

26

Cyclone Game Engine

7 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...

27

CryENGINE 2

202 Released 2007 Commercial licence

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

28

Raycasting Game Maker

15 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...

30

GEM 2

20 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...

31

Frostbite 3

5 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...

32

RenderWare

57 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...

33

Unreal Engine 2

28 Released 2000 Commercial licence

Unreal Engine 2 is a complete game development framework targeted at today's mainstream PC's, Microsoft's Xbox game console, and Sony's PlayStation 2.

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