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Stride
Stride (formerly Xenko), a free and open-source cross-platform C# game
Stride (formerly known as Xenko) is a full-featured, open-source game engine written in C# and targeting the .NET ecosystem, designed for both 2D and 3D games — and even VR experiences. Stride offers a comprehensive toolchain: an editor for scene building, asset management, a rendering pipeline with physically-based rendering (PBR), and support for advanced graphics features such as real-time reflections, post-processing effects, and complex materials (skin, hair, cloth, etc.). Because it’s built on modern C# and .NET, developers can take advantage of modern language features (C# 14, .NET 10), tooling (Visual Studio, VS Code, Rider), and long-term maintainability. The engine supports cross-platform development: you can build for desktop, mobile, or VR, and target multiple operating systems. Stride is modular and customizable: you can tailor rendering, physics, scripting, and other subsystems to suit your game’s needs. -
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Thunder Engine
Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine with modular architecture
Thunder is a lightweight, modular game engine written in C++ that provides a robust foundation for creating 2D and 3D games across platforms. It emphasizes a clean, component-based architecture and is designed for flexibility, performance, and scalability. Thunder includes built-in support for scripting, resource management, physics, animation, and rendering, with tools that facilitate efficient game development and deployment. Its cross-platform nature and minimal dependencies make it suitable for indie developers and small teams looking to build polished games with modern features. -
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Urho3D
Urho3D Game engine
Urho3D is a game engine made by developers, for developers. The code is clean and well-commented. Urho3D is free and will always be free. There is no hidden royalties. It is IDE-agnostic and has no vendor lock-in. Urho3D runs on Windows, Linux, macOS/iOS/tvOS, Android, and even on Raspberry Pi. It also runs on your browsers. You need an installed Urho3D library for the desired target platform to proceed. Although the Urho3D build system also supports linking the Urho3D library directly from its build tree, this quick start section will not be discussing it here. Assuming you have been following along from the previous section, execute the following commands to create a new UrhoApp project, and then build it. The build artifacts from DBE can be found in the usual location as the conventional (non-dockerized) build environment. In fact the build artifacts from DBE should function and work as if they are built using the conventional way too. -
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ggez
Rust library to create a Good Game Easily
ggez is a Rust library to create a Good Game Easily. More specifically, ggez is a lightweight cross-platform game framework for making 2D games with minimum friction. It aims to implement an API based on (a Rustified version of) the LÖVE game framework. This means it contains basic and portable 2D drawing, sound, resource loading, and event handling, but finer details and performance characteristics may be different than LÖVE. ggez is not meant to be everything to everyone, but rather a good base upon which to build. Thus it takes a fairly batteries-included approach without needing a million additions and plugins for everything imaginable, but also does not dictate higher-level functionality such as physics engine or entity component system. Instead, the goal is to allow you to use whichever libraries you want to provide these functions or build your own libraries atop ggez. -
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melonJS
A fresh & lightweight javascript game engine
melonJS is an open-source HTML5 game engine that empowers developers and designers to focus on content. The framework provides a collection of composable entities and support for a number of third-party tools. Giving you a powerful combination that can be used wholesale or piecemeal. melonJS is a lightweight yet powerful HTML5 framework designed from the ground up to provide a true plugin-free 'write-once, run-everywhere' gaming platform. melonJS is an open-source project and supported by a community of enthusiasts. See our Gallery for a few examples of games powered by melonJS. melonJS integrates the popular Tiled map format, allowing designers easily create levels using the Tiled map editor, and to focus on the game features itself. A fresh and lightweight 2D sprite-based engine. Fast WebGL renderer for desktop and mobile devices with fallback to Canvas rendering. -
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nunuStudio
Web powered cross-platform 3D, WebXR game engine
nunuStudio is an open-source editor + game development environment — a “studio” rather than just a library — designed to let developers create interactive 2D and 3D content through a user-friendly interface. It provides visual tools for scene editing, asset management, materials, and possibly scripting, aiming to reduce the friction of hand-coding every aspect from scratch. As an accessible entrypoint to game or interactive content creation, nunuStudio is well-suited for artists, designers, or developers who prefer a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) workflow instead of fully coding everything. Because it is open source, users can inspect, modify, or extend the system as needed — adding custom behaviors, plugins, or export options. It’s ideal for rapid prototyping, small games or interactive demos, or educational purposes: you can build scenes, tweak visuals, test interactivity without deep diving into all low-level rendering details. -
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Orx: Portable Game Engine
Orx: Portable Game Engine
Orx is a portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. As orx is data driven, it allows users to create games with a small number of lines of code and reduces drastically the development time. -
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IsoRealms Spindizzy and Isorealms Engine
An isometric arcade-style game of skill, puzzles and exploration
You are cartographer for undiscovered worlds; your task is to explore and map all areas of the recently discovered strange dimension of Hangworld. In order to complete your task, you take control of GERALD. However, fuel is expensive and funding can only be supplied as long as progress is being made, so it is vital to explore new areas and recover jewels. Spindizzy is a remake of the 1986 classic computer game of the same name, originally developed by Paul Shirley. The remake features true 3D OpenGL graphics and runs on a custom-built engine called Isorealms. The Isorealms engine features a complete content creation toolkit for modifying and extending Spindizzy, as well as offering the opportunity to create entirely new projects from scratch. Isorealms content creation tools are aimed at users of all experiences, from those who simply want to build new worlds to those who want to take advantage of advanced features such as Lua scripting and custom asset importation. -
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Pycraft
Pycraft is an open-source, OpenGL based game made in Python
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Urho3D
Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine
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KonsolScript and Game Engine
Free and Open Game Programming Language for Windows and GNU/Linux
KonsolScript is a free and open source, scripting language primarily intended for 2D games development. KonsolScript Development Team believes that the unavailability of games on GNU/Linux desktops is one of the major concerns why people keep using unauthorized copies of proprietary OS over GNU/Linux and that is something the Development Team is ought to address – we are doing our part to help promote GNU/Linux as a viable gaming platform for desktops both for Game Publishers and Gamers. The whole Game Development Kit is suitable for teaching 2D game programming. The end goal of this project is to have a common gaming platform for Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS, including mobile platforms like Android where any newbie can learn how to make his game/animation etc. A lot of work has been made and a lot more is to be done. It might need to hire programmers to make an engine for Android, and Mac OS, then some in-house testers for stability among these platform -
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Opensource Game Studio
Opensource Game Studio
The primary goal of The Opensource Game Studio Team is the creation of the free Toolset for creating the computer games, and also the creation of games with its aid. At present we developing the game engine, in which, we try to combine the best things, that we managed to find in the the world Opensource and Freeware with our own developments. Right now we are working on creation of a mahjong solitaire game, it'll be a first step in a long path to our toolset and full scale RPG in the end. -
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Smokin' Guns is a GPLv2 licensed first person Western style shooter based on the Quake 3 engine (Id Tech 3) developed by a loosely knit team of developers and artists. This project represents the game engine.
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Erebus
Real-time RPG for PC/tablet/phone; multiple quests and random dungeons
Erebus is a 2D real-time role-playing game, for Windows, Linux, Symbian and Android. This is under development, though already playable with three quests. Classic point-n-click style RPG, with dungeons to explore, enemies to fight, NPCs to talk to, sub-quests to complete, scenery to interact with, weapons, treasure and other items to find. Also supports Rogue-like keyboard controls. Binaries available for Windows and Android. Linux must be compiled from source. Older versions are available for Symbian. I am also developing the underlying game engine so that it can potentially be used to create new RPGs. -
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OPL2
Open source, moddable game engine for the "Polygon Love 2" game
OPL2 is an open source, extremely moddable replacement for the Polygon Love 2 game engine, written in Python and C++ and using the Panda3D game engine ( www.panda3d.org ) OPL2 is just an engine, you will need the files from the original game to be able to play. OPL2 doesn't contain any copyrighted material from the original game/engine. While Polygon Love 2 is an erotic/life simulation game, the OPL2 engine does not contain any explicit material itself. OPL2 is heavily moddable and can be used for many other things such as cosplay simulation. Hongfire thread to talk about the game: http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/410086-OPL2-open-source-and-moddable-3d-hentai-game/page27?highlight=opl2 (WARNING! EXPLICIT CONTENT!) -
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OpenMoHAA is a game engine that is compatible with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault media and network protocol, based on the ioquake3 project.
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Ever had that perfect plot idea for an RPG but didn't have the programming knowledge to create it? Enter Sphere. Sphere is a console-style RPG engine that allows others to create an RPG similar to Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, or Phantasy Star.
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ReBOOM
Conservative port of BOOM 2.02 to modern systems.
ReBOOM is a direct port of BOOM 2.02 to SDL2 aiming to be as close to the original as possible while adding Quality of Life features to it, such as always on stats. ReBOOM is demo compatible with BOOM 2.02. Please note, that this is essentially BOOM 2.02 compatible, it is NOT compatible with many wads 'claiming' to be Boom-compatible. Many of these modern Boom wads are in-fact only PRBoom-compatible and are not classed as Boom-compatible by myself or by historical Boom. It is pure fantasy. ReBOOM was primarily developed for GNU/Linux systems. -
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Mingro
Old-school 2D game engine
An old-school game engine, much like good old ID and Apogee games as Duke Nukem, Commander Keen and Biomenace, slightly inspired by Diana Gruber's "Action Arcade Adventure Set". Made with Allegro.pas and programmed in Pascal. -
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Rails is a Java game engine intended to play any of the 18xx series of turn-based board games For 3-6 players and set in the 19th century, these games allow players to step into the shoes of the robber barons and railroad tycoons of the time period..
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NakedTriad
An authentic Rise of The Triad Dark War source port
Naked Triad aims to be as close to the original Rise of The Triad: Dark War as possible. NakedTriad supports both GNU/Linux and Windows Operating Systems. For those wanting an experience close to how the original was, then NakedTriad is the most faithful source port on the internet (that works) and is fully 64bit clean. Enjoy. -
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A MMORPG Game Engine Writted in Monogame GL full C# Very easy to make a game. With simple Level Editor. Whit cross-plattform Server on .NET Core Tecnology Build your Cross-Platform Game whitout programming! Aviable for Xbox one, PS4, Android, iOS and more platform. Try Live Demo: http://www.makingitalia.net/MireWEB/ Project are migrated on Mire Engine. See Updated at: http://www.makingitalia.net/mire/
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rpgboss
Built to be ease of use, with no programming knowledge, Multi-platform
A 2d rpg game engine created to be ease of use. Built in Scala and libgdx. Also our community forums http://rpgboss.forumatic.com -
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ArcadeGPU
A Complete WebGPU Game Engine for Browser & Desktop Arcade Oriented
ArcadeGPU is a high performance WebGPU game engine inspired by classic techniques that made retro games legendary. Explore demos: https://aliyah-corp.github.io/
