Top Game engines repositories on GitHub
2D and 3D game engines, runtimes, and authoring tools.
Ranked by stars across 922 repositories tagged game-engine. Refreshed daily.
- 1godotengine/godot★ 112,845 · ⑂ 25,714
Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
- game-engine
- godot
- godotengine
- open-source
- multi-platform
- gamedev
- 2ocornut/imgui★ 73,978 · ⑂ 11,826
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
- gui
- gamedev
- tools
- ui
- toolkit
- native
- 3bevyengine/bevy★ 46,756 · ⑂ 4,639
A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
- bevy
- gamedev
- game-engine
- open-source
- rust
- game-development
- 4raysan5/raylib★ 33,526 · ⑂ 3,153
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
- raylib
- c
- videogames
- programming
- opengl
- android
- 5BabylonJS/Babylon.js★ 25,669 · ⑂ 3,662
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
- 6libgdx/libgdx★ 25,166 · ⑂ 6,534
Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
- libgdx
- java
- game
- cross-platform
- android
- ios
- 7leereilly/games★ 24,842 · ⑂ 3,520
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
- 84ian/GDevelop★ 24,003 · ⑂ 1,411
🎮 Open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D/multiplayer game engine designed for everyone.
- game
- javascript
- gamedev
- game-development
- game-engine
- html5
- 9cocos2d/cocos2d-x★ 19,062 · ⑂ 7,062
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
- 10aframevr/aframe★ 17,561 · ⑂ 4,367
:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.
- vr
- webvr
- virtualreality
- threejs
- html
- vive
- 11kitao/pyxel★ 17,551 · ⑂ 925
A retro game engine for Python
- game
- game-development
- game-engine
- gamedev
- graphics
- html
- 12ellisonleao/magictools★ 16,856 · ⑂ 1,199
:video_game: :pencil: A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.
- game-development
- gamedev
- awesome
- curated
- list
- games
- 13OpenRA/OpenRA★ 16,827 · ⑂ 2,960
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
- 14playcanvas/engine★ 16,082 · ⑂ 1,921
Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF
- webgl
- webgl2
- javascript
- game-engine
- gamedev
- virtual-reality
- 15SFTtech/openage★ 14,259 · ⑂ 1,246
Clone of the Age of Empires II engine 🚀
- game
- engine
- python
- c-plus-plus
- qt
- nyan
- 16MonoGame/MonoGame★ 14,042 · ⑂ 3,079
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
- xna
- monogame
- game-framework
- gamedev
- csharp
- cross-platform
- 17hajimehoshi/ebiten★ 13,260 · ⑂ 765
A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
- go
- golang
- golang-library
- game
- game-development
- game-2d
- 18luanti-org/luanti★ 12,998 · ⑂ 2,352
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
- 19skypjack/entt★ 12,833 · ⑂ 1,095
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
- 20boardgameio/boardgame.io★ 12,359 · ⑂ 829
State Management and Multiplayer Networking for Turn-Based Games
- boardgames
- game-engine
- tabletop
- react
- react-native
- javascript
- 21OpenDiablo2/OpenDiablo2★ 11,051 · ⑂ 854
An open source re-implementation of Diablo 2
- game-engine
- diablo2
- 2d
- diablo
- engine
- games
- 22flame-engine/flame★ 10,652 · ⑂ 1,030
A Flutter based game engine.
- flutter
- game-engine
- game
- dart
- flame
- hacktoberfest
- 23jrouwe/JoltPhysics★ 10,527 · ⑂ 725
A multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library. Written in C++. Suitable for games and VR applications. Used by Horizon Forbidden West and Death Stranding 2.
- physics
- vr
- game-development
- cpp
- c-plus-plus
- game-engine
- 24egametang/ET★ 9,818 · ⑂ 3,246
Unity3D Client And C# Server Framework
- c-sharp
- server
- game-engine
- actor
- unity
- unity3d
- 25cocos/cocos-engine★ 9,661 · ⑂ 2,113
Cocos simplifies game creation and distribution with Cocos Creator, a free, open-source, cross-platform game engine. Empowering millions of developers to create high-performance, engaging 2D/3D games and instant web entertainment.
- cocos
- cocoscreator
- game-engine
- game-development
- open-source
- gamedev
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