LÖVE Alternatives

LÖVE is described as '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' and is a popular game development tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to LÖVE for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android apps. The best LÖVE alternative is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LÖVE are GDevelop, Wick Editor, Defold Engine and Ren'Py.

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  1. Making games as the '80s arcade games. Includes Run'n'Gun, vertical & horizontal Shooters or Platform, makes games as Pac-Man, Commando, 1942, Ghosts 'n' Goblins or Gauntlet, with sprite sheets, pixel art, sound fx, & music. You get arcade feel.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    Novashell is a high-level 2D game maker that tries to handle all the hard work behind the scenes allowing you to whip up sweet games using path finding, dialog, persistent dynamically sized maps with construction/deconstruction, save anywhere, and especially features that...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. LITIengine icon
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    LITIengine is a free and open-source 2D Game Engine that lets you create tile-based games with plain Java. LITIengine natively supports all common desktop operating systems, maintaining high portability due to the absence of external libraries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
     
  4. pyglet icon
     4 likes

    Cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. RCBasic icon
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    RCBasic is a free and open source dialect of the BASIC programming language. It is intended to be a simple and powerful language for developing games and multimedia software with many built-in functions to aid in game and multimedia application development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  6. GeeXLab icon
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    GeeXLab is a cross-platform demotool for 3D programming, demos creation, game development, interactive applications, creative coding and prototyping.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  7. ursina icon
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    Ursina makes it easier to develop games, visualizations and other kinds software. The concise API combined with the power of the Python programming language, makes life easier for the developer so they can focus on what they are making.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Monkey X icon
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    Monkey is a modular language. You can create your own custom modules and use other people's - including the awesome box2d and minib3d modules!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Glide Engine icon
     2 likes

    Glide is a SpriteKit and GameplayKit based engine for building 2d games easily, with a focus on side scrollers. Glide is developed with Swift and works on iOS, macOS and tvOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple TV
     
  10. A 2D game engine based on ECS and written in 100% Swift for iOS, macOS and tvOS.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple TV
     
  11. Drag[en]gine icon
     1 like

    A free software game engine focusing on developing games faster, more modular and stable with true -1 day portability support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Haiku
     
  12. Nirvana 3D icon
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    A game engine written in Python, extending support across multiple GPU devices with 3D rendering, PBR Renderer and much more.

    103 Nirvana 3D alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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