Defold Engine
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.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- 2D Game Engine
- Lua scripting
- Works Offline
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Dark Mode
- Portable
- No registration required
- Live Preview
- Ad-free
Tags
- open-source-engine
Defold Engine News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
POX added Defold Engine as alternative to Drag[en]gine
POX added Defold Engine as alternative to LunarEngine- riverboat9793 updated Defold Engine
tedwatson123 added Defold Engine as alternative to PaletAI
POX added Defold Engine as alternative to Xogot
POX added Defold Engine as alternative to GemRB
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What is Defold Engine?
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.
No Setup - Defold is a turn-key solution. There’s nothing to set up or configure. Just download the editor and get creative.
FEATURES
- Visual Editor
- Version Control
- Lua Code Editor
- Particle Editor
- Scene Editor
- Title Editor






Comments and Reviews
So far, I like the idea. Will add stars once it has officially launched. As of writing, the team is organizing community spaces, vetting and on-boarding volunteers, and dealing with waves of harassment from emotionally unstable manchildren. I look forward to seeing how this project develops independently of it's source. :D
Provides great sample projects that just work, and bundles projects to just a few megabytes!
Low learning curve if you have some basic knowledge of coding. It might be tempting to go with a engine with more features but that also adds to complexity, this engine is easy to pick up and does the important things really well.
Free to use and works very well on linux.