Popular Engines for Games

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Xash3D Engine

0 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...

2

WOLF RPG Editor

0 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...

3

Genome

386 Released 2006 Commercial licence

At the beginning of the development of Gothic 3, Piranha Bytes decided not to licence an existing engine, because none of those was able to render the...

4

Source

1 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...

5

Doom Engine

2 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...

6

Xash3D FWGS Engine

2 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...

7

RenderWare

6 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...

8

Raycasting Game Maker

1 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...

9

Unreal Development Kit

3 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...

10

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.

11

ZDoom

6 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

Source²

4 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...

13

GameMaker Studio

38 Released 1999 Commercial licence

GameMaker Studio caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create cross-platform games in record...

14

Clausewitz Engine

2 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...

15

GoldSrc

9 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...

16

LyN

529 Released 2009 Commercial licence

LyN engine is a video game engine developed by Ubisoft and is the successor for Jade Engine. It's designed to effectively scale on both old-gen and newer-generation...

17

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...

18

id Tech 3

3 Released 1999 GPL licence

Previously called the "QUAKE 3 Engine" and one of the most successful licensed engines in history, id Tech 3 was the engine used to create games such...

19

LS3D

24 Released 2002 Commercial licence

The LS3D game engine was developed by Illusion Softworks and used by the games Mafia: City of Lost Heaven, Hidden & Dangerous 2 and Chameleon. The...

20

Zero Engine

74 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...

21

Build

11 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...

22

VIDE

405 Released 2012 Proprietary licence

VIDE stands for Vectorized Image Deformation Engine, and is a powerful bone-based 2D image and vector art animation engine. It is written entirely in...

23

Refractor 2

70 Released 2002 Commercial licence

The Refractor Engine, is a game engine designed by Stockholm-based studio Refraction Games, first developed for the computer game Codename Eagle, which...

24

Unity

5 Released 2005 Commercial licence

Unity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity just happens...

25

Unreal Engine 4

67 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

IW Engine

12 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...

27

Lugdunon

442 TBD Commercial licence

The online multiplayer RPG game engine Lugdunon. Engine runs natively on Mac/Linux/Windows and via HTML5 on other platforms

28

SAGE (Strategy Action Game Engine)

1 Released 2001 Proprietary licence

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

29

Quake Engine

7 Released 1996 GPL licence

The Quake engine is the game engine that was written to power 1996's Quake, written by id Software. It featured true 3D realtime rendering and is now...

30

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...

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