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

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

Unity

0 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...

5

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...

6

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...

7

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.

8

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...

9

X-Ray Engine

7 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...

10

Xash3D FWGS Engine

37 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...

11

GameMaker Studio

4 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...

12

Dunia

18 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...

13

EDuke32

2 Released 2004 GPL licence

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

14

M.U.G.E.N

5 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...

15

Unreal Engine 4

6 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...

16

id Tech 3

4 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...

17

SAGE (Strategy Action Game Engine)

50 Released 2001 Proprietary licence

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

18

IW Engine

10 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...

19

Clausewitz Engine

57 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...

20

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).

21

Build

13 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

Multimedia Fusion

31 Released 2006 Commercial licence

Multimedia Fusion is the perfect tool for creating applications, multimedia applications and exciting games. MMF continues the amazingly powerful graphical...

23

Wave Engine

13 Released 2013 Proprietary licence

Wave Engine was born on February 21, 2013 with the exciting mission of developing an engine to help the mobile game developers’ community.

24

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...

25

RAGE

3 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...

26

GEM 2

7 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...

27

RPG Maker MV

38 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...

28

Outerra Engine

42 TBD Commercial licence

Planetary engine that can be used with real elevation data of arbitrary resolution, while being progressively enhanced by fractal algorithms. The fractal...

29

Blender Game Engine

16 Released 2009 GPL licence

The Blender Game Engine is a component of Blender, a free and open-source comprehensive 3D production suite, used for making real-time interactive content...

30

Game Pencil Engine

28 Released 2016 Commercial licence

The Game Pencil Engine is a new cross-platform game development tool which started as an engine mainly for creating Wii U and HTML5 games, but is expanding...

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