Pygame Alternatives

Apps similar to Pygame include Godot Engine, which is free and open source. Other options are Unity, LÖVE, microStudio and Bevy Game Engine. Game Development Tools like Pygame are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone and Android.

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  1. Arcade is an easy-to-learn Python library for creating 2D video games. It is ideal for beginning programmers, or programmers who want to create 2D games without learning a complex framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. LÖVR icon
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    Virtual Reality for Lua.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Intrinsic icon
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    Intrinsic is a Vulkan based cross-platform graphics and game engine.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Very fast BASIC like programming language for console and gui applications, automate process, automate data exchange, connect to databases, send mails, ftp, rest api, parsing, tokenizing, files, OpenGl, graphics, sound, printing ... much more.

    82 thinBasic Programming Language alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Emscripten
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  6. HaxeFlixel icon
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    HaxeFlixel is a 2D Game Engine that lets you create cross-platform games easier with free, open source technology!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Flixel is and open source game-making library in ActionScript3. Designed for use with free tools Flixel is easy to learn, extend and customize.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. OpenFL icon
     6 likes

    Build games and applications for almost every platform imaginable -- Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Firefox OS, Tizen, Flash and even HTML5.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. pyglet icon
     4 likes

    Cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Amulet icon
     3 likes

    Amulet is a free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.

    79 Amulet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. irrlicht icon
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    The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderers, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. The Seclusion Game Engine ("SGE", pronounced like "sage") is a general-purpose libre open source 2-D game engine for Python. It takes care of several details for you so you can focus on the game itself.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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