Top Game engines repositories on GitHub
2D and 3D game engines, runtimes, and authoring tools.
Ranked by stars across 958 repositories tagged game-engine. Refreshed daily.
- 1godotengine/godot★ 117,518 · ⑂ 26,810
Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
- game-engine
- godot
- godotengine
- open-source
- multi-platform
- gamedev
- 2ocornut/imgui★ 76,291 · ⑂ 12,047
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
- gui
- gamedev
- tools
- ui
- toolkit
- native
- 3bevyengine/bevy★ 48,304 · ⑂ 4,851
A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
- bevy
- gamedev
- game-engine
- open-source
- rust
- game-development
- 4raysan5/raylib★ 34,800 · ⑂ 3,302
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
- raylib
- c
- programming
- opengl
- android
- embedded
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- 54ian/GDevelop★ 26,694 · ⑂ 1,557
🎮 Open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D/multiplayer game engine designed for everyone.
- game
- javascript
- gamedev
- game-development
- game-engine
- html5
- 6BabylonJS/Babylon.js★ 26,090 · ⑂ 3,688
Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.
- webgl
- webgl2
- 3d
- game-development
- webvr
- babylon
- 7libgdx/libgdx★ 25,404 · ⑂ 6,526
Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
- libgdx
- java
- game
- cross-platform
- android
- ios
- 8leereilly/games★ 24,952 · ⑂ 3,545
Archived — A list of games, add-ons, maps, etc. hosted on GitHub. Any genre. Any platform. Any engine.
- game-engine
- html5-games
- gamedev
- games
- game
- game-development
- 9cocos2d/cocos2d-x★ 19,188 · ⑂ 7,044
Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.
- cocos2d
- cocos2d-x
- game-engine
- c-plus-plus
- lua
- metal
- 10kitao/pyxel★ 17,879 · ⑂ 932
A retro game engine for Python
- game
- game-development
- game-engine
- gamedev
- graphics
- html
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- 11aframevr/aframe★ 17,634 · ⑂ 4,396
:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.
- vr
- webvr
- virtualreality
- threejs
- html
- vive
- 12OpenRA/OpenRA★ 17,401 · ⑂ 3,046
Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.
- game-engine
- strategy-game-engine
- csharp
- cross-platform
- dotnet
- openra
- 13ellisonleao/magictools★ 17,339 · ⑂ 1,235
:video_game: :pencil: A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.
- game-development
- gamedev
- awesome
- curated
- list
- games
- 14playcanvas/engine★ 16,832 · ⑂ 1,992
Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF
- webgl
- webgl2
- javascript
- game-engine
- gamedev
- virtual-reality
- 15SFTtech/openage★ 14,445 · ⑂ 1,265
Clone of the Age of Empires II engine 🚀
- game
- engine
- python
- c-plus-plus
- qt
- nyan
- 16MonoGame/MonoGame★ 14,434 · ⑂ 3,108
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
- xna
- monogame
- game-framework
- gamedev
- csharp
- cross-platform
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- 17luanti-org/luanti★ 13,621 · ⑂ 2,459
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation
- c-plus-plus
- voxel
- voxel-engine
- game-engine
- lua
- minetest
- 18hajimehoshi/ebiten★ 13,494 · ⑂ 792
A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
- go
- golang
- golang-library
- game
- game-development
- game-2d
- 19skypjack/entt★ 13,126 · ⑂ 1,117
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
- header-only
- modern-cpp
- cpp
- entity-component-system
- game-development
- game-programming
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