Popular Engines for Games

Updated Released | Added | Popular Today | Popular All Time | Rating | Name

1

WOLF RPG Editor

1 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...

2

Xash3D Engine

1 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...

3

Retroquad

298 Early Access 2020 GPL licence

Game engine with the most advanced realtime 8-bit color software renderer on Earth. Retroquad has an 8-bit color renderer in substance, rather than style...

4

001 Game Creator

76 Released 2003 Commercial licence

001 Game Creator is a Graphically Assisted Scripting engine for beginners and advanced users alike. Developers can quickly prototype ideas, test complex...

5

Source

2 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...

6

Unreal Engine 2

1 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.

7

Xash3D FWGS Engine

1 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

Doom Engine

4 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...

9

FPSC

39 Released 2005 Commercial licence

This engine is the code behind "The game Creator's" FPS Creator development tool, A powerful, yet rough FPS engine.

10

Unreal Development Kit

0 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...

11

GoldSrc

3 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...

12

RAGE

5 Released 2006 Proprietary licence

Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) is a game engine developed by the RAGE Technology Group at the video game developer Rockstar San Diego with contributions...

13

IW Engine

1 Released 2005 Commercial licence

The IW Engine is a game engine developed by Infinity Ward, based on id Tech 3, which was first used on the highly successful game Call of Duty 2. Since...

14

GEM 2

3 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...

15

ZDoom

1 Released 2013 Public Domain licence

ZDoom 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...

16

Imperial Game Engine 2

19 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...

17

X-Ray Engine

24 Released 2007 Commercial licence

The X-ray Engine is a DirectX 8.1/9 Shader Model 3.0 graphics engine. Up to a million polygons can be on-screen at any one time. The engine features HDR...

18

Chrome Engine 6

104 Released 2014 Proprietary licence

Chrome Engine is a proprietary 3D game engine developed by Techland. The current version, Chrome Engine 6, supports Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation...

19

TyranoBuilder

72 Released 2015 Commercial licence

TyranoBuilder and its sister tool TyranoScript are part of STRIKEWORKS’ mission to bring the enjoyment of both making and playing visual novels to people...

20

XL Engine

390 TBD GPL licence

The XL Engine is an engine that runs the “XL Games”, which are enhanced remakes/ports* of the classic games. Essentially they are remakes in the spirit...

21

Lumix Engine

450 TBD MIT licence

Lumix Engine is an open source, MIT licensed, plugin-based, 3D game engine written in C++. Its main advantage is performance and usability. It includes...

22

Unreal Engine 4

2 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...

23

Unreal Engine 3

6 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...

24

id Tech 4

15 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...

25

Clausewitz Engine

3 Released 2007 Proprietary licence

Originally developed for Europa Universalis III, it has been used in every game developed by Paradox Development Studio since. The engine provides a 3D...

26

Chrome Engine 1

45 Released 2003 Proprietary licence

The first instance of Chrome Engine, a proprietary 3D game engine developed by Techland for Chrome and Chrome: SpecForce stand-alone mission pack.

27

Visionaire Studio

88 Released 2010 Commercial licence

The easiest way to create an adventure game! The only thing you need is some creativity and imagination, and after a bit of playing around with the program...

28

Infernal Engine

179 Released 2002 Commercial licence

Infernal Engine is the most cross-platform capable, full-featured foundation for building video games. Built from a team of industry veterans at Terminal...

29

HaxeFlixel

12 Released 2011 MIT licence

HaxeFlixel is an open source 2D game library written for use with the Open Flash Library and the Haxe Toolkit, it is completely free for personal or commercial...

30

RPG Maker VX

13 Released 2007 Commercial licence

Make your RPG with simple operation! "RPG MAKER VX" is a software that enables you to create your original role playing game without any special knowledge...

No engines were found matching the criteria specified. We suggest you try the engine list with no filter applied, to browse all available. Add engine and help us achieve our mission of showcasing the best content from all developers. Join now to share your own content, we welcome creators and consumers alike and look forward to your comments.