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...

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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...

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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...

4

Quake Engine

5 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...

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Real Virtuality 3

111 Released 2009 Commercial licence

Real Virtuality 3 is a computer game engine developed by Bohemia Interactive, originally called Poseidon. It is used in the video game ARMA 2. An updated...

6

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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Source

4 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...

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GoldSrc

1 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...

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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

GRACE 2

430 Released 2013 Commercial licence

GRACE2™ is a modern engine crafted internally at Reality Pump studios, a division of TopWare Interactive. Its previous versions have powered beloved...

11

Schmetterling

536 TBD Proprietary licence

EXOR Studios' proprietary game engine. X-Morph: Defense is the first game using this engine.

12

RPG Maker MV

117 Released 2015 Commercial licence

RPG Maker was born to fulfill the desire of creating an original RPG without programming knowledge. Four years have passed since the release of the previous...

13

Matali Physics

7 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...

14

Unreal Engine 2

6 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.

15

Cafu Engine

366 Released 2009 GPL licence

The Cafu Engine is an all-purpose, modern 3D graphics engine and game development kit, feature complete to get you started quickly. Cafu is available...

16

Unreal Engine 1

8 Released 1998 Commercial licence

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

17

X-Ray Engine

9 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

Source²

1 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...

19

RPG in a Box

195 Early Access 2019 Commercial licence

RPG in a Box is a tool for easily creating 3D grid-based, voxel-style RPGs and adventure games—everything you will need for building and sharing your...

20

id Tech 2

13 Released 1997 GPL licence

Formerly the "QUAKE 2 Engine", with pioneering innovation in 3D environments, a few of id Tech 2's most notable features were out-of-the-box support for...

21

SAGE (Strategy Action Game Engine)

6 Released 2001 Proprietary licence

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

22

Wintermute

82 Released 2003 Public Domain licence

Wintermute Engine Development Kit is a set of tools for creating and running graphical point and click adventure games, both in traditional 2D and 2.5D...

23

TyranoBuilder

55 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...

24

Unity

3 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

Imperial Game Engine 2

102 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...

26

Construct 3

64 Released 2017 Commercial licence

With Construct, building games is as fun as playing them.

27

ZDoom

16 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...

28

FS2_Open Engine

46 Released 2002 Public Domain licence

Originally created by Volition Inc to run Freespace 2, the FS2_Open engine has been radically improved so that the engine can now compete with modern...

29

Build

5 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...

30

Wolf3D Engine

73 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...

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