Godot Engine
Game engines
A free, open-source engine for 2D and 3D games.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
Bitsy
Game engines
Make tiny pixel-art exploration and story games in your browser.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
Construct 3
Game engines
Make 2D games in your browser without writing code.
- Free + paid plans
- Good for beginners
GDevelop
Game engines
An open-source, no-code engine for 2D and 3D games.
- Free + paid plans
- Open source
- Good for beginners
GameMaker
Game engines
A 2D engine with drag-and-drop and its own easy scripting language.
- Free + paid plans
- Good for beginners
LÖVE
Game engines
A small, free framework for making 2D games in Lua.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
PICO-8
Game engines
A fantasy console for making tiny retro games with strict limits.
- Paid
- Good for beginners
Phaser
Game engines
A popular open-source framework for 2D browser games in JavaScript.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
Scratch
Game engines
Snap code blocks together to make your very first games.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
TIC-80
Game engines
A free, open-source fantasy computer for small retro games.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
Unity
Game engines
A widely used engine for 2D, 3D, mobile and XR games.
- Free + paid plans
- Good for beginners
Bevy
Game engines
A free, open-source, data-driven game engine built in Rust.
- Free
- Open source
Defold
Game engines
A free, lightweight engine for 2D games on mobile and web.
- Free
Unreal Engine
Game engines
A high-end engine for realistic 3D games, with visual scripting.
- Free
Pygame
Code & programming
A beginner-friendly library for making 2D games in Python.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
Twine
Story & game design
Write interactive, branching stories without code.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
raylib
Code & programming
A simple, free C library for learning game programming.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
MonoGame
Code & programming
An open-source C# framework for 2D and 3D games.
- Free
- Open source
libGDX
Code & programming
A Java framework for 2D and 3D games on desktop, Android and web.
- Free
- Open source
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