Popular Engines for Games

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1

Xash3D Engine

0 Released 2011 GPL licence

Xash3D is a custom Gold Source build from a scratch. Xash3D overcomes obsolete Gold Source engine's limits and provides for you a new quality of gaming...

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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...

3

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...

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M.U.G.E.N

0 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...

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4A Engine

2 Released 2010 Proprietary licence

A graphics middle-ware engine developed by 4A Games for use in their video game Metro 2033, published by THQ. It supports Direct3D APIs 9, 10, and 11...

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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IW Engine

42 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...

8

DarkPlaces engine

1 Released 2000 GPL licence

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

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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...

10

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...

11

Raycasting Game Maker

8 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...

12

GoldSource

2 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...

13

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...

14

ZDoom

2 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...

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Quake Engine

4 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...

16

RenderWare

8 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...

17

X-Ray Engine

1 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

EDuke32

11 Released 2004 GPL licence

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

19

Zero Engine

3 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...

20

LithTech

24 Released 1998 Commercial licence

The LithTech Engine was initially developed by Monolith in collaboration with Microsoft, until LithTeh Inc was formed to continue development on the engine...

21

id Tech 3

5 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...

22

FPSC

5 Released 2005 Commercial licence

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

23

Unreal Engine 2

5 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.

24

GEM 2

1 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...

25

Custom

44 Released 2007 Commercial licence

The engine used to build this game was a once-off creation, designed explicitly to run this particular title. This is not a _real_ game engine, this is...

26

RPG Maker VX Ace

35 Released 2012 Commercial licence

Simple Enough for a Child; Powerful Enough for a Developer RPG Maker VX Ace improves every aspect of RPG creation, making it not only the latest, but...

27

Dunia

7 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...

28

GameMaker Studio

7 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...

29

CopperCube

113 Released 2014 Commercial licence

CopperCube is an editor for creating 3D games and 3D websites, as windows or Mac OS apps, as Flash or WebGL websites, or Android apps.

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RAGE

20 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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