Most popular game-engine repositories and open source projects

Game engines are software frameworks for game development. Game engines do the heavy lifting for developers so they can focus on other aspects of game development.

godot

Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

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imgui

Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal d...

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raylib

A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

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bevy

A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

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libgdx

Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework

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games

:video_game: A list of popular/awesome video games, add-ons, maps, etc...

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Babylon.js

Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and renderi...

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cocos2d-x

Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development...

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matter-js

a 2D rigid body physics engine for the web ▲● ■

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aframe

:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.

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magictools

:video_game: :pencil: A list of Game Development resources to make mag...

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GDevelop

🎮 Open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D/multiplayer game engine designed...

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openage

Clone of the Age of Empires II engine 🚀

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OpenRA

Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games su...

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pyxel

A retro game engine for Python

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boardgame.io

State Management and Multiplayer Networking for Turn-Based Games

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ebiten

Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

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luanti

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platf...

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OpenDiablo2

An open source re-implementation of Diablo 2

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MonoGame

One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.

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engine

Fast and lightweight JavaScript game engine built on WebGL and glTF

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entt

Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system...

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amethyst

Data-oriented and data-driven game engine written in Rust

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flame

A Flutter based game engine.

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JoltPhysics

A multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection libra...

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ET

Unity3D Client And C# Server Framework

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Entitas

Entitas is a super fast Entity Component System (ECS) Framework specif...

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Fyrox

3D and 2D game engine written in Rust

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o3de

Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engi...

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melonJS

a fresh, modern & lightweight HTML5 game engine

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defold

Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desk...

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magnum

Lightweight and modular C++11 graphics middleware for games and data v...

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Piccolo

Piccolo (formerly Pilot) – mini game engine for games104

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stride

Stride Game Engine (formerly Xenko)

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FXGL

Java / JavaFX / Kotlin Game Library (Engine)

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pixel

A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go

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flecs

A fast entity component system (ECS) for C & C++

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urho3d

Game engine

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FlaxEngine

Flax Engine – multi-platform 3D game engine

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cocos-engine

Cocos simplifies game creation and distribution with Cocos Creator, a...

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panda3d

Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and...

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egret-core

Egret is a brand new open mobile game and application engine which all...

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ggez

Rust library to create a Good Game Easily

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NoahGameFrame

A fast, scalable, distributed game server engine/framework for C++, in...

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Terasology

Terasology - open source voxel world

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LumixEngine

3D C++ Game Engine - yet another open source game engine

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AtomicGameEngine

The Atomic Game Engine is a multi-platform 2D and 3D engine with a con...

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spring

A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at htt...

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Ambient

The multiplayer game engine

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GameDev-Resources

:video_game: :game_die: A wonderful list of Game Development resource...

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