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

X-Ray Engine

6 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...

3

Bright Life

275 TBD Commercial licence

Bright Life is an upcoming 3D flora generation toolkit to allow indie game developers to create flourishing ecosystems instantly.

4

WOLF RPG Editor

2 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...

5

LayaAir

20 Released 2016 Commercial licence

Fully supports 2D and 3D game development；provide everything you need to build, animate, and render your 3D worlds and characters With LayaAir's unique...

6

Source

2 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...

7

Xash3D FWGS Engine

2 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...

8

Dunia

102 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...

9

IRISZOOM

232 TBD Commercial licence

Built for Intel's latest core processors, IRISZOOM is a new engine from Eugen Systems which plunges players into the action via a new intuitive interface...

10

Hedgehog Engine

76 Released 2008 Proprietary licence

The Hedgehog Engine is capable of both CGI-level graphics and a break-necking speed, used in the 2008 title Sonic Unleashed and the 2011 title Sonic Generations...

11

Wave Engine

208 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.

12

Doom Engine

3 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...

13

SAGE (Strategy Action Game Engine)

3 Released 2001 Proprietary licence

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

14

Chrome Engine 4

141 Released 2009 Commercial licence

Chrome Engine is a complete game development framework for PC and Xbox 360 (PS3 support coming within few months) utilizing all modern game programming...

15

Unreal Engine 4

4 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

EDuke32

8 Released 2004 GPL licence

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

17

GoldSrc

14 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...

18

Unreal Development Kit

6 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...

19

SugarBombEngine

4 TBD GPL licence

Gamebryo engine (Bethesda's branch) reimplementation based on OpenMW and id Tech 4 sources

20

RenderWare

0 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...

21

Unreal Engine 1

15 Released 1998 Commercial licence

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

22

Build

1 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...

23

RPG Maker VX

76 Released 2007 Commercial licence

Make your RPG with simple operation! "RPG MAKER VX" is a software that enables you to create your original role playing game without any special knowledge...

24

CopperCube

278 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.

25

RAGE

18 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

Unreal Engine 2

16 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.

27

Ren'py

18 Released 2004 MIT licence

Ren'Py is a free, 2D, and cross-platform engine that helps you make story-based games including visual novels and simulation games. It uses a scripting...

28

Real Virtuality 3

54 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...

29

Blender Game Engine

96 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

RPG Maker VX Ace

108 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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