Free Piston game engine AlternativesGame Development Tools and other similar apps like Piston game engine

The best free alternative to Piston game engine is LÖVE, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked seven alternatives to Piston game engine and seven of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Piston game engine are raylib, Pygame, LibGDX and nCine.

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  1. LÖVE icon
     98 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.

    105 LÖVE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • FreeBSD
     
  2. raylib icon
     6 likes

    raylib is a game development library highly inspired by Borland BGI graphics lib and by XNA framework. Made as a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy game programming.

    28 raylib alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Zlib)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Pygame icon
     25 likes

    Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing video games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • HP webOS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • AmigaOS
     
  4. LibGDX icon
     20 likes

    Java framework providing unified API for building 2D or 3D games across desktop, mobile, and browser platforms, with hot code swapping, rapid prototyping, modular architecture, integrated physics, input, asset tools, and support for desktop-native debugging.

    57 LibGDX alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  5. nCine icon
     8 likes

    nCine is a cross-platform 2D game engine in C++ for fast and performant game development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Emscripten
     
  6. Orx icon
     15 likes

    Orx is an open source, portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. Orx is mostly written in C, but allows you to develop with it with any language that can interface to C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Zlib)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. ursina icon
     Like

    Ursina makes it easier to develop games, visualizations and other kinds software. The concise API combined with the power of the Python programming language, makes life easier for the developer so they can focus on what they are making.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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