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Unity
Commercial licenceUnity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity just happens...
Unreal Engine 5
Commercial licenceThe 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...
Panda3d
BSD licencePanda3D is a game engine, a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs. Panda3D is Open Source and free for any purpose...
GameMaker Studio 2
Commercial licenceGameMaker Studio 2 is the latest and greatest incarnation of GameMaker! It has everything you need to take your idea from a concept to a finished game...
Custom
Commercial licenceThe engine used to build this game was a once-off creation, designed explicitly to run this particular title. This is not a _real_ game engine, this is...
Godot
MIT licenceGodot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed, game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to...
Unreal Engine 4
Commercial licenceThe 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...
F-Engine 3
Commercial licenceThe F-engine 3 (or III) Is an Advanced HTML based Game/Animation engine and successor to Radkoil's F-Engine 2. F-Engine 3 is capable of preforming more...
GDevelop 5
Creative Commons licenceGDevelop is a 2D and 3D cross-platform, free and open-source game engine, which mainly focuses on creating PC and mobile games, as well as HTML5 games...
Ren'py
MIT licenceRen'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...
Bright Life
Commercial licenceBright Life is an upcoming 3D flora generation toolkit to allow indie game developers to create flourishing ecosystems instantly.
M.U.G.E.N
GPL licenceM.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...
GameMaker Studio
Commercial licenceGameMaker Studio caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create cross-platform games in record...
Lightweight Java Game Library
BSD licenceThe Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality...
LÖVE
Zlib licenceLÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game framework, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua.
Blender Game Engine
GPL licenceThe Blender Game Engine is a component of Blender, a free and open-source comprehensive 3D production suite, used for making real-time interactive content...
Blitz MAX
Commercial licenceCreate 2D Games for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It features the BlitzMax compiler, core BlitzMax modules, Max2D graphics module, IDE, debugger, sample...
ZDoom
Public Domain licenceZDoom 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...
MonoGame
BSD licenceOne framework for creating powerful cross-platform games. The spiritual successor to XNA with 1000's of titles shipped across desktop, mobile, and console...
SFML
Zlib licenceSFML 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...
Wedge
MIT licenceWedge is a JRPG engine that utilises Shim and TGUI to create a full suite of components for developing games. There is a map editor but this engine does...
WDCEngine
GPL licenceWDCEngine is a open source 2D engine which allow user to create their own game
Doom Engine
GPL licenceThe 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...
Twine
GPL licenceTwine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you...
CryENGINE V
Commercial licenceBuilding on over a decade of continued engine development and refinement, CRYENGINE is used by AAA and indie developers alike to build some of today’s...
Matali Physics
Commercial licenceMatali Physics is an advanced, modern, multi-platform, high-performance 3d physics environment intended for games, VR, AR, physics-based simulations and...
Adventure Game Studio
Public Domain licenceAdventure Game Studio allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90's Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists...
Orx Portable Game Engine
Zlib licenceOrx is an open source, portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. It has been created to allow...
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Quake Engine
GPL
Unreal Engine 4
Commercial
Unreal Engine 2
Commercial
Doom Engine
GPL
Unity
Commercial
ZDoom
Public Domain
Custom
Commercial
Unreal Engine 5
Commercial
CryENGINE 3
Commercial
Vortex Engine
MIT
ShiVa3D
Commercial
Dream Maker
Public Domain
Ren'py
MIT
Godot
MIT
RPG in a Box
Commercial
GameMaker Studio 2
Commercial
jMonkeyEngine
BSD
M.U.G.E.N
GPL