Top 11 Open-Source Alternatives to HGE

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Developer Tools Game Development Game Engine

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to HGE are nCine, pyglet, and Godot Engine. 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.

nCine Landing Page
1

nCine

Cross-platform 2D game engine in C++
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #2D Game Engine 4 social mentions
pyglet Landing Page
2

pyglet

Cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #2D Game Engine 7 social mentions
Godot Engine Landing Page
3

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 446 social mentions
Unity Landing Page
4

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
Grit Game Engine Landing Page
5

Grit Game Engine

The Grit Game Engine is an MIT-Licensed Open Source Game Engine that is highly scriptable via Lua.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #2D Game Engine
SFML Landing Page
6

SFML

SFML provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. It is composed of five modules: system, window, graphics, audio and network.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 1 social mentions
JMonkeyEngine Landing Page
7

JMonkeyEngine

What is jMonkeyEngine? It's a free, open source game engine, made especially for Java game developers who want to create 3D games using modern technology.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 23 social mentions
Upbge Landing Page
8

Upbge

A game-engine fully integrated in Blender
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 5 social mentions
Oxygine Landing Page
9

Oxygine

Oxygine is free C++ engine and framework for 2D games on iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and Mac.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #2D Game Engine
GLFW Landing Page
10

GLFW

GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 1 social mentions
Orx Landing Page
11

Orx

Orx - a portable open source game engine
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine