Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to GameMaker Studio

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Coding Community Game Development Game Engine IDE Kids Education Learn To Code Programming Realtime Feedback Visual Novel Engine

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to GameMaker Studio are Godot Engine, Unity, and GDevelop. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Godot Engine Landing Page
1

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions
Unity Landing Page
2

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
GDevelop Landing Page
3

GDevelop

GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 75 social mentions
Scratch Landing Page
4

Scratch

Scratch is the programming language & online community where young people create stories, games, & animations.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Kids Education #Programming #Coding 558 social mentions
Phaser Editor 2D Landing Page
5

Phaser Editor 2D

Phaser Editor 2D is an IDE for HTML5/Phaser games creation.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 3 social mentions
MonoGame Landing Page
6

MonoGame

MonoGame is an open source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 2 social mentions
Phaser Landing Page
7

Phaser

Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework. A fast, free and fun open source framework for Canvas and WebGL powered browser games.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 120 social mentions
Stencyl Landing Page
8

Stencyl

Make iOS (iPhone/iPad), Android, Flash, Windows & Mac games without code using Stencyl.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 4 social mentions
Twine Landing Page
9

Twine

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Visual Novel Engine #IDE #Game Development 276 social mentions
CryENGINE Landing Page
10

CryENGINE

The most powerful game development platform is now available to everyone. Full engine source code.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine
Panda3D Landing Page
11

Panda3D

Panda3D is a video game development engine and rendering software. It is developed and maintained by the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 1 social mentions
RenPy Landing Page
12

RenPy

Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform visual novel engine that helps you use words, pictures, and...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Visual Novel Engine #IDE #Text Editors 16 social mentions