Game Builder Alternatives

Godot Engine

Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to PC, Mobile and Web...

Features:

• GdScript
• 2D Game Creation
• 2D Game Engine
• Efficiency
• Intuitive Nodes
• Lightweight
• Portable
• Scene Management
• Visual Programming
• 2D Game
• 3D Game Engine
• 3d renderer
• Asset Pipeline
• Export to HTML
• Modular System
• Multiplayer
• Scene System
• Scripting
• Support for Windows Hello

Unity

Unity is a multi-platform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity offers the free Personal...

Features:

• C# Scripting
• IDE
• Networking and Multiplayer
• Vectorize raster images

Construct 2

Scirra Construct is a 2D game development engine with a focus on building games visually. No programming is required though the software uses a visual method for event...

Features:

• Drag n drop
• 2D Game
• No coding required
• Portable
• Visual Programming
• Web-Based

GDevelop

GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone. Any kind of 2D games can be created with it and no programming skills are required to...

Features:

• No coding required
• Visual Programming
• Material design
• Event management
• Multiple languages
• Multiplatform
• Multiplatform Export
• 2D and 3D physics
• Clean design
• HTML5 Support
• IDE
• Support for Javascript
• No coding required
• Particle Engine

Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine is a professional suite of tools and technologies used for building high-quality games across a range of platforms. Unreal Engine’s rendering architecture...

Features:

• Blueprint Function
• Cloth physics
• Destructible geometry
• Hair simulation
• Photorealism
• Scripting
• 3D Game Engine
• Apple Metal support
• Architecture Visualization
• Chaos Engine
• Develop in VR
• Materials Editor
• No coding required
• Node Based
• Particle Engine
• Performance analysis
• Profiling Tool
• Quixel Megascans
• Ray Tracing
• Virtual Reality
• Visual Programming
• Well documented

LÖVE

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.

Features:

• 2D Game
• Collaborative Workspaces

CRYENGINE

The most powerful game development platform is now available to everyone. Full engine source code. All features. No royalties. No obligations. No license fee.

Features:

• Flow diagram visualisation
• Flowgraph
• Visual Programming
• Gaming

Cocos2d-x

cocos2d-x is a cross platform open source free 2D game engine for mobile gamedev, that is fast and stable, easy to learn and use.

Features:

• Lightweight
• OPENGL

Torque 3D

Torque 3D is a easy-to-use game creation platform. Architected from the ground up for maximum flexibility and performance across a wide range of hardware and built upon...

GameMaker: Studio

Design your own computer games with a drag-and-drop event/action system, and introduce yourself to coding at your own pace.

Features:

• Code completion
• Sprite sheets
• IDE