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Best Open-Source Game Engines with Editors
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Babylon.js
A powerful, beautiful, simple, and open web rendering engine
Gondwana Game Engine
Gondwana is a cross-platform 2.5D game and rendering engine written in C#/.NET 8, built with SkiaSharp for graphics. It modernizes legacy Win32/GDI patterns into a modular, high-performance framework that runs on desktop, mobile, and web.
RecoilEngine
Recoil is a battle tested open-source RTS engine that, allied with a flexible Lua API, allows you to implement the perfect UI and mechanics for your game with the ability to support thousands of complex units simultaneously.
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Spartan Engine
A game engine with an emphasis on real-time cutting-edge solutions
Thunder
Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine with modular architecture
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PixiJS
Fast and lightweight 2D JavaScript library that allows everyone to enjoy the power of hardware acceleration without prior knowledge of WebGL
Robust Toolbox
ECS based game engine originally created for space station 14 but other games are supported. It is intended for multiplayer games and it is possible to sandbox the client.
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RouteVN
RouteVN Creator is a free, open-source tool that lets anyone, writers, artists, hobbyists to create their own Visual Novels. No coding or technical background required.
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RPG Paper Maker
RPG Paper Maker allows you to create a 3D RPG with 2D sprites and 3D objects with a very simple interface
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Crown
Crown is a complete and cross-platform game engine designed for flexibility, performance, and fast-iterations.
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MelonJS
An open source HTML5 game engine that empowers developers and designers to focus on content
Unigine
An engine designed for development teams (C++/C# programmers, 3D artists) working on interactive 3D apps
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Bevy
A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
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Blazium Game Engine
Blazium Engine is a free, open-source fork of Godot for building cross-platform 2D and 3D games and applications, with the tools, platform integrations, and improvements you need.
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sbox
s&box is a spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod, using Source 2 to create a modern, intuitive, moddable game development environment.
USAGI
Usagi is a 2D game engine for making pixel art games in Lua 5.5. It features live reload, single-command cross-platform export, and a pause menu with input remapping built in.
Kaiju Engine
Kaiju is a game development platform where all game scripting and logic is written in Go, combining the performance of a compiled language with the simplicity of modern syntax
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Pixi’VN
Pixi’VN is a versatile and powerful visual novel/2D game engine. It is based on JavaScript/TypeScript and uses the PixiJS library for rendering.
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GDevelop
A no-code, open-source, free, and easy 2D/3D game-making app
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Defold
A game engine for high-performance cross-platform games
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Drag[en]gine
Free software game engine focusing on developing games faster
Snap!
A visual programming language inspired by Scratch.
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PlayCanvas
A web-first game engine
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TIC-80
A free and open source fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games
Eldiron
A cross-platform creator for classic role-playing-games (RPGs). It’s main aim is to create games similar to the RPGs of the 80’s and 90’s but with modern features as well as support for single and multi-player experiences.
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Excalibur.js
A free game engine written in TypeScript for making 2D games in HTML5 canvas, whether you're new to game development or you're an experienced game developer.
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Ebitengine
A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
Shape Engine
A custom-made game engine based on the Raylib Framework. The Main focus is being performant and only using draw functions instead of textures. When using Shape Engine everything from Raylib is available as well.
SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software, emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog and many Humble Bundle games.
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FNA
FNA is a reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh libraries