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...

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

Xash3D FWGS Engine

0 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...

5

GEM 2

10 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...

6

Raycasting Game Maker

10 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

GoldSrc

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...

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Unreal Engine 3

2 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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Unreal Engine 2

13 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.

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X-Ray Engine

8 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...

11

Creation Engine

92 TBD Commercial licence

The Creation Engine was created specifically for the new game, The Elder Scrolls V, Skyrim. It allows the game to have farther draw distances than any...

12

Unreal Development Kit

2 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...

13

ioquake3

73 Released 2005 GPL licence

ioquake3.org is the de-facto standard in Quake 3 technology post-opensource release. Others base themselves on the hard work of the hundreds who have...

14

Dark Engine

31 Released 1998 Commercial licence

The Dark Engine is the computer game engine used for the Looking Glass Studios games Thief: The Dark Project (1998), Thief II: The Metal Age (2000), and...

15

Construct

67 Released 2008 GPL licence

Construct is a free powerful and easy to use development software for both DirectX 9-based games and applications,in a WYSIWYG environment. It includes...

16

Unreal Engine 1

5 Released 1998 Commercial licence

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

17

RPG Maker XP

60 Released 2004 Commercial licence

The Ultimate RPG MAKER for Windows! Introducing RPG MAKER™ XP, the latest Windows entry in the RPG MAKER series that gives you the power to create your...

18

Doom Engine

11 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...

19

Quake Engine

6 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...

20

Clausewitz Engine

1 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...

21

RenderWare

2 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...

22

SAGE (Strategy Action Game Engine)

18 Released 2001 Proprietary licence

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

23

Source²

11 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...

24

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...

25

Ice 2D Game Engine

150 Released 2011 Creative Commons licence

Ice2D™ Game Engine is Royalty free for use with any type of freeware, shareware or commercial game with focus on independent games and tools developers...

26

Build

2 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...

27

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.

28

Essence Engine

45 Released 2006 Proprietary licence

Originally developed for Company of Heroes by Relic Entertainment, Essence Engine is the game engine that Company of Heroes and Dawn of War II run on.

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id Tech 4

1 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...

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RPG Maker VX Ace

80 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...

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