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. If you like playing 3D games, you might like to create your own game with custom scenes, characters, weapons and design your own gameplay. Silent Walk FPS Creator is a tool which helps you design and build your dream 3D game - without a single line of code!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. FPS Creator sets a new benchmark in the game creation market by providing an easy-to-use yet highly flexible editing environment. As its name implies this is a tool for creating action-packed FPS games with no programming or 3D modelling knowledge required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Comments about FPS Creator Classic as an Alternative to Unreal Engine
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    This is more a game than a game engine.

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    • FPS Creator Classic is Free and Open SourceUnreal Engine is Freemium and Proprietary
  3. An unofficial client to install Unreal Engine, download and manage purchased assets, projects, plugins and games from the Epic Games Store.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Linux
     
  4. Whitestorm.js icon
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    Whitestorm.js is a framework for 3D web apps built with Three.js technology. It implements a core for fast development of a 3D scene with physics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Amulet icon
     4 likes

    Amulet is a free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.

    78 Amulet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Limon Engine icon
     1 like

    Limon is a multi platform 3D game engine mainly focusing on first person games. Focus of its development is ease of use and ease of study. It has builtin editor for maps, animations and GUIs.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Gamesalad icon
     13 likes

    GameSalad Creator is an authoring tool developed by GameSalad, Inc. (formerly Gendai Games) aimed primarily at non-programmers for composing games in a drag-and-drop fashion, utilizing visual editors and a behavior-based logic system.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. Angel2D icon
     4 likes

    A cross-platform 2D game prototyping framework based on OpenGL and C++.

    Angel balances the speed and flexibility of native code with an eye towards rapid iteration and out-of-the-box functionality. In a world of web games and memory-managed scripting engines, sometimes you still.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • OpenGL
     
  9. WorldForge icon
     2 likes

    The WorldForge project is the original open-source MMORPG project, dating back to 1997.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Project Spark is a powerful, yet simple way to build and play your own worlds, stories and games.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Reality Factory 2 is a next-generation game authoring suite. It combines a flexible, fully scripted game development environment powered by Python with the Ogre3D engine, and supports all major desktop operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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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