Alternatives to Unity for all platforms with Open Source License

  • Godot Engine

    Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to PC, Mobile and Web...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku FreeBSD

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    • Cross-platform and great for programmers. The way objects are organized is fantastic. MIT License on everything! Guest • Oct 2016 • 8 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It is free software, and the developers listen all suggestions. migueldediosmatias • Dec 2016 • 6 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • Its running on all major platforms, there is no installation (nor the Engine or the games) Its perfect, it is evolving everyday. MasteLrugarius • Jan 2017 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It's fully featured, open source, and very actively maintained. mhalkotob • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • A lot of its workflow is quite similar (or at least analogous) to Unity, so transitioning shouldn't take too long. Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It's most unity like Game Engine with a unified editor, 3d and 2d support, and (coming soon) C# programming support , asset store and soon 3D overhaul inc PBR which should bring it even closer to Unity trollworkout • Jun 2017 Disagree   Agree
    • dedicated 2d engine beside the 3d one voxel based ... node system Guest • Sep 2017 Disagree   Agree
    • It's available on all platforms and it's free software. Guest • Oct 2017 Disagree   Agree
    • free, easy and portable. just one executable, no installation or dependencies, just open it and it works. writing games on Linux and exporting them to windows doesn't require windows itself, and so much more features i cant even mention here. just the perfect game engine for mobile and desktop. <3 Lura • Jan 2018 Disagree   Agree
    • Friendly community in which the dev team are actively involved, open development plans, constantly improving documentation, willingness to share code, ideas etc. Guest • Jan 2018 Disagree   Agree

  • LÖVE

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone ... BSD iPad FreeBSD

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  • Polycode

    Polycode is a C++ and Lua framework for building interactive applications. It is free, open source and cross-platform.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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    • Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.8.4, released in May 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.

  • 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

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  • Superpowers

    Superpowers is an HTML5 development environment for making 2D and 3D games. It can be extended with plugins and lets you collaborate in real-time.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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    • You can develop straight from the web, and it's self-hosted. Guest • Jul 2017 Disagree   Agree

  • 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 OS X Windows Linux

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Atomic Game Engine

    The Atomic Game Engine features a cross-platform editor with deployment to Windows, OSX, Linux, WebGL, Android, and iOS.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • MonoGame

    One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games. The spiritual successor to XNA with 1000's of titles shipped across desktop, mobile, and console platforms....

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web GitHub

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  • Duality

    Duality is a modular 2D game engine / editor combo, written entirely in C# and built on top of an OpenGL backend. It's open source, features an open architecture...

    Free Open Source Windows

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  • Phaser

    Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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