Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to LibGDX

Product categories

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

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to LibGDX are Godot Engine, Unity, and MonoGame. 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
MonoGame Landing Page
3

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
Orx Landing Page
4

Orx

Orx - a portable open source game engine
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine
GDevelop Landing Page
5

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
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
CryENGINE Landing Page
7

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
raylib Landing Page
8

raylib

Cross-platform, open-source game development library in C.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 6 social mentions
JMonkeyEngine Landing Page
9

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
Panda3D Landing Page
10

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
Vulkan Landing Page
11

Vulkan

Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine
Cocos Creator Landing Page
12

Cocos Creator

Cocos Creator is more than a efficient, lightweight, free, open-source, cross-platform graphics engine: it's also a platform to create 3D content in real time.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine