Unreal Engine Alternatives

Unreal Engine is described as 'Professional suite of tools and technologies used for building high-quality games across a range of platforms. Unreal Engine’s rendering architecture enables developers to achieve stunning visuals and also scale elegantly to lower-end systems' and is a very popular game development tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Unreal Engine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Android apps. The best Unreal Engine alternative is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Unreal Engine are Unity, GDevelop, Redot Engine and Defold Engine.

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  1. Amethyst uses gfx-rs to render graphics with Vulkan or Metal. It is meant to be used for 2D and 3D, with various utilities for both types of games. It should be beginner friendly but also allow more advanced uses such as custom render passes and GLSL shaders.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Buildbox icon
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    Buildbox is a breakthrough game creation experience. Creating games is as easy as dropping images into the software, making changes to their properties and hitting play.

    35 Buildbox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. Range Engine icon
     2 likes

    Range Engine is a light and powerful game engine and 3D software, made based on Blender Game Engine with improvements from UPBGE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Blender
     
  4. Blend4Web icon
     12 likes

    Blend4Web is an Open Source tool for interactive 3D visualization on the Internet. It provides Free and Commercial licenses.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  5. Resonite icon
     4 likes

    Resonite is a free collaborative social VR & desktop sandbox platform, where users can socialize in a virtual environment and create objects, avatars & worlds together.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • SteamVR
    • Steam
    • Linux
    • SteamOS
     
  6. LÖVR icon
     2 likes

    Virtual Reality for Lua.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Hero Engine icon
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    The only true complete development platform for online games. HeroEngine seamlessly integrates the entire client and server architecture required to operate an online game directly into the development process.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Blitz3D icon
     21 likes

    Create 2D and 3D Games for Windows.

    If you've been yearning to create games but have been frustrated by the complexity of programming languages such as C++ or Java, you've come to the right place!

    Blitz3D provides a simple yet powerful environment for game creation - s.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Build 3D apps with near-native 3D performance that run on mobile, desktop and XR.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  10. Atavism opens up development opportunities of virtual online worlds to everyone regardless of programming knowledge or artistic ability.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. Verus Engine icon
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    Verus Engine is a modern, platform-agnostic 3D game engine. It is developed using C++ and HLSL. It is based on Direct3D 12 and Vulkan graphics APIs. The code is user friendly and well optimized.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. GemRB icon
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    GemRB (Game Engine Made with preRendered Background) is a portable open-source reimplementation of the Infinity Engine that underpinned Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment. It sports a cleaner design, greater extensibility and several innovations.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Symbian S60
    • ReactOS
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
     
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