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LithTech

55 Released 1998 Commercial licence

The LithTech Engine was initially developed by Monolith in collaboration with Microsoft, until LithTeh Inc was formed to continue development on the engine...

Dunia

129 Released 2008 Proprietary licence

The Dunia Engine is a game engine designed by Kirmaan Aboobaker while working at Crytek. It is based on the CryEngine but was heavily modified by the...

Dark Engine

35 Released 1998 Commercial licence

The Dark Engine is the computer game engine used for the Looking Glass Studios games Thief: The Dark Project (1998), Thief II: The Metal Age (2000), and...

Build

15 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...

Multimedia Fusion

49 Released 2006 Commercial licence

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

DarkPlaces engine

15 Released 2000 GPL licence

Highly evolved engine based on id Software technology, available under dual license (GPL, proprietary licensing for commercial use available).

Storm Engine 2 (working title)

376 Released 2016 GPL licence

Forked from RBDoom 3 BFG (Doom 3 BFG GPL) and greatly improved, Storm Engine 2 provides explosive mix of id Tech 4 and id Tech 5 technologies. Flexible...

Raycasting Game Maker

29 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...

M.U.G.E.N

7 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...

Wolf3D Engine

6 Released 1992 Commercial licence

The Wolf3D Engine is a raycaster engine developed by John Carmack for the hit FPS game Wolfenstein 3-D. It features smooth scrolling with textured walls...

Source²

23 TBD Commercial licence

The announced next gen Source engine in the making. A set of Source 2 tools for building new environments will ship with Half-Life: Alyx, enabling any...

Volatile Engine

203 TBD Proprietary licence

Volatile engine is still under development, but we’re ready to shed some light on the current progress. Although the engine itself was written from...

ZenGin

23 TBD Commercial licence

Piranha Bytes worked more than 4 years on the development of Gothic's technology. The engine was created completely in-house, with a modified version...

CoolBasic

274 Released 2005 Proprietary licence

CoolBasic is a 2D game engine for Windows that comes with its own BASIC like scripting language. The product consists of a code editor, user manual and...

3DSTATE

751 Released 2005 Commercial licence

3DSTATE 3D Developer studio is currently used by more than 70,000 people. Whether games, tourism, education, or else - no matter what your project is...

Matali Physics

64 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...

BooBoo

28 Released Jan 1, 2023 MIT licence

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

Brahma

65 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...

Unreal Engine 5

21 TBD Commercial licence

The 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...

SAGE (Strategy Action Game Engine)

27 Released 2001 Proprietary licence

The SAGE engine is a game engine used by Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts for real-time strategy games.

Unreal Engine 1

36 Released 1998 Commercial licence

The first generation, Unreal Engine integrated rendering, collision detection, AI, visibility, networking and file system management into one complete...

Zero Engine

38 Released 1999 Proprietary licence

A proprietary game engine developed by Pandemic Studios, first used Battlezone II: Combat Commander and later used in several Star Wars games including...

RenderWare

33 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...

Kirikiri2

104 Released 1998 GPL licence

Kirikiri is a scripting engine for the creation of visual novel games. It utilizes the KAG (KiriKiri Adventure Game System) framework and an object-oriented...

Chrome Engine 4

261 Released 2009 Commercial licence

Chrome Engine is a complete game development framework for PC and Xbox 360 (PS3 support coming within few months) utilizing all modern game programming...

Hedgehog Engine

14 Released 2008 Proprietary licence

The Hedgehog Engine is capable of both CGI-level graphics and a break-necking speed, used in the 2008 title Sonic Unleashed and the 2011 title Sonic Generations...

Titan

32 Released 2004 Commercial licence

Titan is a game engine developed by Stainless Steel Studios used in the real-time strategy genre. It was mainly used as a PC game engine in the early...

GDevelop 5

101 Released 2018 Creative Commons licence

GDevelop 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...

Enigma Engine

46 Released 2003 Proprietary licence

The Enigma engine (also called the Blitzkrieg engine) is a game engine developed by Nival Interactive that is used in several real-time tactics video...

Essence Engine

15 Released 2006 Proprietary licence

Originally developed for Company of Heroes by Relic Entertainment, Essence Engine is the game engine that Company of Heroes and Dawn of War II run on.