MonoGame Alternatives

MonoGame is described as '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. MonoGame is a fully managed .NET open source game framework without any black boxes' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MonoGame for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android apps. The best MonoGame alternative is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MonoGame are Unity, Unreal Engine, GDevelop and Wick Editor.

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  1. Cocos Creator icon
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    Cocos Creator is a complete package of game development tools and workflow, including a game engine (based on Cocos2d-x), resource management, scene editing, game preview, debug and publish one project to multiple platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  2. Evergine icon
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    The Graphics Development Engine for Business and Industry. Build high-quality 3D solutions and deploy to any platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Gameeky icon
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    Gameeky lets young learners and educators create and explore cooperative games and learning experiences.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  5. LÖVR icon
     2 likes

    Virtual Reality for Lua.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Arcade is an easy-to-learn Python library for creating 2D video games. It is ideal for beginning programmers, or programmers who want to create 2D games without learning a complex framework.

    17 Python Arcade alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Torque 2D icon
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    Torque 2D is an extremely powerful, flexible, and fast open source engine dedicated to 2D game development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • iPad
     
  8. AppGameKit is a simple cross platform game development tool that runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS and Raspberry Pi. A version to run on Android and iOS is also available. With AppGameKit you can use a simple Basic like programming language to develop cross platform applications, 2D...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Raspbian
    • Raspberry Pi
    • HTML
     
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    Comments about AppGameKit Classic as an Alternative to MonoGame
    ddabrahim
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    It is cross platform, can run and compile to all major platforms but without the complexity of MonoGame

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    AppGameKit is a cross platform framework for developing 2D and 3D games

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • AppGameKit Classic is Freemium and ProprietaryMonoGame is Free and Open Source
  9. Microsoft XNA is a freeware set of tools with a managed runtime environment provided by Microsoft that facilitates video game development and management.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. A feature-rich, production-ready, general purpose 2D/3D game engine written in Rust with a scene editor. Formerly known as rg3d.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. QICI Engine icon
     7 likes

    QICI Engine is a free and opensource JavaScript library, based on free and opensource game engine Phaser, with a web-based comprehensive suite of HTML5 game making editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  12. LittleJS icon
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    LittleJS is a fast lightweight open source HTML5 game engine for modern web development. Its small footprint is packed with a comprehensive feature set including hybrid rendering, physics, particles, sound effects, music, and input handling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
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