Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to LOVE 2D

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Coding Community Game Development Game Engine Graph Databases IDE Kids Education Learn To Code Programming Text Editors

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to LOVE 2D are Godot Engine, Unity, and TIC-80. 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 446 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
TIC-80 Landing Page
3

TIC-80

TIC-80 is a fantasy computer where you can make, play and share tiny games.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #2D Game Engine 66 social mentions
Defold Engine Landing Page
4

Defold Engine

Defold lets you quickly build high performing, cross-platform games together with your team.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 47 social mentions
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
Scratch Landing Page
6

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
LÖVR Landing Page
7

LÖVR

Virtual Reality for Lua
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 22 social mentions
Phaser Landing Page
8

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
MonoGame Landing Page
9

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
Stencyl Landing Page
10

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
RenPy Landing Page
11

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
raylib Landing Page
12

raylib

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