Alternatives to Thinking Worlds for all platforms with any license

Unity

Unity is a multi-platform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity offers the free Personal...

Free Personal Mac Windows Linux
C# Scripting Vectorize raster images Add a feature

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Unreal Engine

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...

Free Mac Windows Linux
Apple Metal support No coding required Photorealism Visual Programming Add a feature

86 Like
GDevelop

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android BSD ... iPad
Visual Programming HTML5 Support Support for Javascript No coding required ... Particle Engine Add a feature

112 Like
Scratch

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
2D Game Creation Drag n drop Kid friendly Visual Programming ... Web-Database Add a feature

71 Like
CryENGINE

The most powerful game development platform is now available to everyone. Full engine source code. All features. No royalties. No obligations. No license fee.

Free Personal Open Source Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

37 Like
Torque 3D

Torque 3D is a easy-to-use game creation platform. Architected from the ground up for maximum flexibility and performance across a wide range of hardware and built upon...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

32 Like
Cocos2d-x

cocos2d-x is a cross platform open source free 2D game engine for mobile gamedev, that is fast and stable, easy to learn and use.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Windows Mobile Android ... iPhone Blackberry Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Blackberry 10
Lightweight Add a feature

29 Like
Stencyl

Stencyl isn't your average game creation software; it's a gorgeous, intuitive toolset that accelerates your workflow and then gets out of the way. We take care...

Freemium Mac Windows Linux
No coding required Visual Programming Add a feature

66 Like
RPG Maker

The RPG Maker software series is a set of game creation suites aimed at easy 2D role playing game creation.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
Can use Javascript to extend the engine Complete RPG Game Engine Export to dekstop, mobile and HTML5 No coding required ... Royalty free assets Visual Programming Add a feature

32 Like
Urho3D

Urho3D is a lightweight, cross-platform rendering and game engine implemented in C++ and released under the MIT license. Greatly inspired by OGRE and Horde3D.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Raspberry Pi
Lightweight Add a feature

29 Like
Adventure Game Studio

Adventure Game Studio provides the tools to make your own adventure, for free! Bring your story and artwork and slot it in, and let AGS do the rest. AGS provides...

Free Windows
Content Templates Add a feature

16 Like
ENIGMA - LateralGM

ENIGMA, the Extensible Non-Interpreted Game Maker Augmentation, is an open source cross-platform game development environment derived from that of the popular software...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

19 Like
Open RPG Maker

Open RPG Maker is a free and open source clone of features from the RPG Maker series (i.e. rpgmaker200, rpgmaker2003, rpgmakerxp), as well as many other features. All of...
- Discontinued The last update was released on February 12th, 2014.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

7 Like
Cocos Creator

Cocos Creator is a complete package of game development tools and workflow, including a game engine (based on Cocos2d-x), resource management, scene editing, game...

Free Mac Windows
No features added Add a feature

5 Like
Blitz3D

Create 2D and 3D Games for Windows. If you've been yearning to create games but have been frustrated by the complexity of programming languages such as C++ or...
- Discontinued Seems discontinued, the official website is no longer available.
Free Open Source Windows
No features added Add a feature

13 Like