Amethyst Game Engine AlternativesGame Development Tools and other similar apps like Amethyst Game Engine

Amethyst Game Engine is described as 'Amethyst uses gfx-rs to render graphics with Vulkan or Metal. It is meant to be used for 2D and 3D, with various utilities for both types of games. It should be beginner friendly but also allow more advanced uses such as custom render passes and GLSL shaders' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Amethyst Game Engine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android apps. The best Amethyst Game Engine alternative is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Amethyst Game Engine are Unity, Unreal Engine, GDevelop and OpenGL.

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  1. Godot Engine icon
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    Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel.

    183 Godot Engine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Epic Games Store
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Steam
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
    • itch.io
    • Meta Quest
     
  2. Unity icon
     364 likes

    Unity's real-time 3D engine fosters collaboration among artists, designers, and developers, offering tools for immersive, interactive experiences. Unity 6 enhances rendering, lighting, and AI, supports AR, VR, mobile, desktop, and includes detailed multiplayer workflows.

    139 Unity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Unreal Engine icon
     189 likes

    Unreal Engine is a professional suite of tools and technologies used for building high-quality games across a range of platforms. Unreal Engine’s rendering architecture enables developers to achieve stunning visuals and also scale elegantly to lower-end systems.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. GDevelop icon
     196 likes

    GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone. Any kind of 2D games can be created with it and no programming skills are required to get started. Logic of games are made using visual events.

    125 GDevelop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
     
  5. OpenGL icon
     193 likes

    OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. Since its introduction in 1992, OpenGL has become the industry's most widely used and supported 2D and 3D graphics application programming interface (API), bringing...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  6. LÖVE icon
     100 likes

    Hi there! LÖVE is an awesome framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • FreeBSD
     
  7. microStudio icon
     23 likes

    microStudio is a free game engine online. Create games, learn programming, play, share, prototype and jam!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  8. Defold Engine icon
     38 likes

    The completely free and source-available game engine Defold solves the technical issues we all have in common when making games. That way, you can focus on being creative and building a great game.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. GameMaker icon
     50 likes

    Welcome to the home of GameMaker, the fastest and friendliest cross-platform game development technology out there. GameMaker has been completely redeveloped with usability and efficiency at its core, allowing developers to create games within a single code base and then publish...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  10. Stride (formerly Xenko) is an open-source C# game engine designed for the future of gaming. It comes with a full toolchain and is especially well suited to create realistic games but allows you much more!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. UPBGE icon
     12 likes

    A extremely powerful application to make games in python as well as in visual programming

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Blender
     
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