Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to MonoGame

Product categories

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

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to MonoGame 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
Orx Landing Page
4

Orx

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

LibGDX

Libgdx is a Java game development framework that provides a unified API that works across all...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 6 social mentions
ct.js Landing Page
6

ct.js

ct.js is a 2D game editor (desktop app) based on web technologies.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 3 social mentions
Cocos Creator Landing Page
7

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
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
LITIengine Landing Page
9

LITIengine

LITIengine is a free and open source Java 2D Game Engine. It provides all the infrastructure to create tile based 2D games with plain java, be it a platformer or a top-down adventure.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 6 social mentions
HaxeFlixel Landing Page
10

HaxeFlixel

Create cross-platform games easier and free. All with one codebase.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 9 social mentions
Phaser Landing Page
11

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
Defold Engine Landing Page
12

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