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GameMaker Studio

178 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...

Construct

178 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...

Voxel Space 2

191 Released 1997 Commercial licence

Voxel Space2, 3D Engine from Novalogic, Commanche 3, Armored Fist 2

FlashPunk

280 TBD MIT licence

FlashPunk is a free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games. It provides you with a fast, clean framework to prototype and develop...

Unreal Engine 3

60 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...

Unreal Engine 5

33 TBD Commercial licence

The world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool, Unreal Engine 5 will be available in preview in early 2021, and in full release late...

Blender Game Engine

31 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...

MonoGame

19 Released 2009 BSD licence

One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games. The spiritual successor to XNA with 1000's of titles shipped across desktop, mobile, and console...

Run3 Game Engine

4 Released 2017 MIT licence

Run3 is a powerful real-time game engine that species on first-person shooter games. It has Ogre 3d game library as base 3d engine. Run3 Game Engine is...

Cyclone Game Engine

3 TBD Proprietary licence

The Cyclone Game Engine is a cross-platform 2D/3D game engine built upon MonoGame and the XNA Framework to help make it easier and save time creating...

Ren'py

24 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...

Unknown

32 TBD Commercial licence

The engine used to build this game is unknown. This is not a _real_ game engine, this is a generic placeholder.

HTML5

44 Released 2014 Commercial licence

This markup language allows developers to create cross-browser and cross-platform games, supports 2D and 3D graphics, multiplayer, audio API, and also...

RPG Maker MV

79 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...

Chrome Engine 2

81 Released 2004 Proprietary licence

The second installment of Chrome Engine originally used in an FPS game Chrome, a proprietary 3D game engine developed by Techland. About 20 different...

Impossible Creatures Engine

130 Released 2003 Commercial licence

Originally built for the Impossible Creatures game, this engine was later heavily modified and used by the Dawn of War games.

jMonkeyEngine

165 Released 2009 BSD licence

jMonkeyEngine is a game development suite made especially for game developers who want to create 3D games with modern technology standards. The software...

Heaps - Haxe Game Engine

165 Released 2017 MIT licence

Heaps or Heaps.io is a mature cross platform graphics engine designed for high performance games. It is designed to leverage modern GPUs that are commonly...

EngineX

167 Released 2003 Proprietary licence

EngineX is an engine, created by Eurocom and use in movie tie-in games (007 Legends, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown , Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Pirates...

Aspen

172 Released Dec 2021 Creative Commons licence

Southlogic Studios was founded in July of 1996 by Christian Lykawka.During its first year of operation, Southlogic Studios produced a 2D platform shooter...

LÖVE

172 Released 2008 Zlib licence

LÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game framework, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua.

Storm3D

303 Released 2005 Proprietary licence

There aren't any commercial names for the game engine used by Frozenbyte, but internally it's been called "Storm3D". Storm3D is partially based on work...

Affinity Engine

702 TBD Proprietary licence

The affinity engine is the proprietary engine of Ayphix Entertainment.

id Tech 3

72 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...

Quake Engine

69 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...

PhyreEngine

67 Released 2008 Commercial licence

PhyreEngine (also known as Phyre Engine) is a free to use, cross platform (Windows PC, PSP, Xbox 360, PS Vita and PS3) game engine from Sony Computer...

LithTech

56 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...

Real Virtuality 3

31 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...

Apocalyx

28 Released 2005 Commercial licence

The engine is based on OpenGL. Version 1.5 is better to access some advanced features, but 1.1 should be supported as well. The renderer uses some common...