Godot Alternatives - C++ Game Engine

Popularity

9.9

Stable

Activity

9.9

Stable

Stars 23,551

Watchers 1,261

Forks 4,615

Last Commit about 2 months ago

Code Quality Rank: L1

Programming language: C++

Tags: Game Engine

Godot alternatives and similar libraries

Based on the "Game Engine" category

Cocos2d-x

9.8 8.9 L1 Godot VS Cocos2d-x

A multi-platform framework for building 2d games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications. [Commercial?]
CRYENGINE

9.5 8.8 L1 Godot VS CRYENGINE

CRYENGINE source code.
Torque3D

8.6 7.6 L1 Godot VS Torque3D

An open-source C++ engine built for 3D game development. [MIT] website
GamePlay

8.6 0.0 L1 Godot VS GamePlay

A cross-platform native C++ game framework for creating 2D/3D mobile and desktop games. [Apache2]
Torque2D

8.5 1.2 L1 Godot VS Torque2D

An open-source and cross-platform C++ engine built for 2D game development. [MIT] website
Banshee Engine

8.1 9.1 L1 Godot VS Banshee Engine

Banshee Game Engine
Polycode

7.9 0.0 L1 Godot VS Polycode

A cross-platform framework for creative code in C++ (with Lua bindings). [MIT] website
Spring RTS game engine

7.7 9.5 L1 Godot VS Spring RTS game engine

A powerful free cross-platform RTS engine
Panda3D

7.6 9.5 L1 Godot VS Panda3D

A game engine, a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs. [Modified BSD] website
KlayGE

7.0 8.9 Godot VS KlayGE

a cross-platform open source game engine with plugin-based architecture. [GPLv2] website
flixel

6.8 7.6 Godot VS flixel

Free, cross-platform 2D game engine powered by Haxe and OpenFL
Amazon Lumberyard

6.7 4.7 Godot VS Amazon Lumberyard

Lumberyard
The MOAI Multi-platform Game Engine

6.7 4.6 L2 Godot VS The MOAI Multi-platform Game Engine

This is the development repo of Moai SDK. Current, but not necessarily tested or stable.
fwgl

6.5 0.0 Godot VS fwgl

Game engine
Allegro

6.0 8.5 L3 Godot VS Allegro

A cross-platform library mainly aimed for video games and multimedia programming. [zlib]
Oxygine

5.5 5.7 L1 Godot VS Oxygine

A cross-platform 2D C++ game engine. [MIT]
squirrel

4.6 4.4 L1 Godot VS squirrel

Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language
ClanLib

3.8 5.0 Godot VS ClanLib

ClanLib is a cross platform C++ toolkit library.
Wolf Engine

2.8 7.8 Godot VS Wolf Engine

The Wolf is a comprehensive set of C++ open source libraries for rendering
Grit

1.6 0.0 L1 Godot VS Grit

Community project to build a free game engine for implementing open world 3D games. [MIT]
delta3d

- - Godot VS delta3d

A robust simulation platform. [LGPL2]

* Code Quality Rankings and insights are calculated and provided by Lumnify.
They vary from L1 to L5 with "L5" being the highest. Visit our partner's website for more details.

Do you think we are missing an alternative of Godot or a related project?

Add another 'Game Engine' Library

Popular Comparisons

README

Godot Engine

Homepage: https://godotengine.org

2D and 3D cross-platform game engine

Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel. Games can be exported in one click to a number of platforms, including the major desktop platforms (Linux, Mac OSX, Windows) as well as mobile (Android, iOS) and web-based (HTML5) platforms.

Free, open source and community-driven

Godot is completely free and open source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. The users' games are theirs, down to the last line of engine code. Godot's development is fully independent and community-driven, empowering users to help shape their engine to match their expectations. It is supported by the Software Freedom Conservancy not-for-profit.

Before being open sourced in February 2014, Godot had been developed by Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur (both still maintaining the project) for several years as an in-house engine, used to publish several work-for-hire titles.

Screenshot of a 3D scene in Godot Engine

Getting the engine

Binary downloads

Official binaries for the Godot editor and the export templates can be found on the homepage.

Compiling from source

See the official docs for compilation instructions for every supported platform.

Community and contributing

Godot is not only an engine but an ever-growing community of users and engine developers. The main community channels are listed on the homepage.

To get in touch with the developers, the best way is to join the #godotengine IRC channel on Freenode.

To get started contributing to the project, see the [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).

Documentation and demos

The official documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs. It is maintained by the Godot community in its own GitHub repository.

The class reference is also accessible from within the engine.

The official demos are maintained in their own GitHub repository as well.

There are also a number of other learning resources provided by the community, such as text and video tutorials, demos, etc. Consult the community channels for more info.