Game Engines & Frameworks

Game Engine Recommendations

General-Purpose Engines (2D and 3D)

Unity Unreal Godot Cocos Creator Defold

General-Purpose Engines (2D Only)

GameMaker Construct GDevelop Stencyl Phaser

General-Purpose Frameworks (2D and 3D)

Monogame FNA Heaps

General-Purpose Frameworks (2D Only)

Love2D HaxeFlixel

Genre Specific Engines & Frameworks

Visual Novel

Ren'Py Visual Novel Maker

Classic 2D Action-RPG

Solarus

Role Playing Game (RPG)

RPG Maker MV

Real Time Strategy (RTS)

SpringRTS

Point and Click Adventure

Visionaire Studio Adventure Games Studio

Interactive Fiction

Twine Ink Squiffy

Resources