Popular Engines for Games

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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...

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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...

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Source

0 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...

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

Doom Engine

1 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...

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Xash3D FWGS Engine

0 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...

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RAGE

0 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...

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Unreal Engine 2

3 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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Unreal Development Kit

1 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...

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Chrome Engine 6

112 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...

11

ZDoom

3 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...

12

XL Engine

398 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...

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Lumix Engine

458 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...

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

Unreal Engine 3

14 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

id Tech 4

23 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...

17

Clausewitz Engine

5 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...

18

X-Ray Engine

23 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...

19

Chrome Engine 1

52 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.

20

IW Engine

8 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...

21

Visionaire Studio

94 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...

22

Infernal Engine

185 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...

23

HaxeFlixel

6 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...

24

Dunia

137 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...

25

Unreal Engine 4

1 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

GoldSrc

18 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...

27

Build

8 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...

28

Storm Engine 2 (working title)

385 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...

29

TyranoBuilder

62 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...

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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...

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