Popular Engines for Games

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1

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

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...

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

M.U.G.E.N

4 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...

6

Raycasting Game Maker

2 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...

7

DarkPlaces engine

4 Released 2000 GPL licence

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

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

Unity

4 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...

10

Unreal Engine 4

3 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...

11

EDuke32

6 Released 2004 GPL licence

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta gum!

12

RAGE

8 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

GameMaker Studio

15 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

Unreal Engine 2

7 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

CryENGINE 3

8 Released 2011 Commercial licence

CryENGINE®3 is the first PC, Playstation®3, and Xbox 360™ all-in-one game development solution that is Next-Gen ready with scalable computation and...

16

Source²

8 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...

17

Frostbite 3

54 Released 2013 Proprietary licence

In development since 2011, Frostbite 3 is an improvement of Frostbite 2 and will debut with Battlefield 4 in 2013. It only supports DirectX 11 on PCs...

18

id Tech 4

13 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...

19

Unreal Engine 3

44 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...

20

Unreal Development Kit

12 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...

21

The 3d gamemaker

97 Released 2001 Commercial licence

The 3D gamemaker has a built in placement editor that allows the user to indicate where enemies, items, and obstacles go. this is not available in beginner...

22

Halo Engine

284 Released 2001 Commercial licence

Engine developed by Bungie Studios, continually updated and used in all first-person shooter Halo games.

23

id Tech 6

5 Released 2016 Proprietary licence

id Tech 6 or "idtech666" is an upcoming OpenGL/Vulkan based game engine under preliminary development by id Software, which will tentatively follow id...

24

Quake Engine

2 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...

25

ZDoom

31 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...

26

Clausewitz Engine

8 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...

27

Demon Tactic engine

631 Released 2014 Commercial licence

Web turn-based games of rpg and roguelikes genres.

28

Adaptive Game Engine (AGE)

492 Released 2006 Proprietary licence

For its own titles, AGEOD created and further develops the Adaptive Game Engine (AGE), a generic platform for turn-based strategy games, that is expandable...

29

Refractor 2

116 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...

30

GameGuru

24 Released 2015 Commercial licence

GameGuru offers you a game maker that's open to non-programmers and designers/artists, or anyone who aspires to create their own 3D game. It also has...

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