Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Photon Engine

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2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine API Tools Analytics App Development Application Builder Container Tools Developer Tools Development Game Development Game Engine Mobile Push Messaging

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Photon Engine are Nakama, Colyseus, and DarkRift Networking. 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.

Nakama Landing Page
1

Nakama

Nakama is an open-source distributed social and realtime server for games and apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #App Development #Game Development 14 social mentions
Colyseus Landing Page
2

Colyseus

Multiplayer Game Server for Node.js. Focus on the gameplay instead of networking.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #App Development #Game Development 4 social mentions
DarkRift Networking Landing Page
3

DarkRift Networking

DarkRift Networking is a fast, flexible and superpowered networking solution for .NET and Unity.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Game Development #App Development 1 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
Socket.io Landing Page
5

Socket.io

Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #App Development #Mobile Push Messaging 717 social mentions
RenPy Landing Page
6

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
Godot Engine Landing Page
7

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions
Pusher Landing Page
8

Pusher

Pusher is a hosted API for quickly, easily and securely adding scalable realtime functionality via WebSockets to web and mobile apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Mobile Push Messaging #Developer Tools #App Development 50 social mentions
GDevelop Landing Page
9

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
FastAPI Landing Page
10

FastAPI

FastAPI is an Open Source, modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Developer Tools #API Tools #Python Programming 235 social mentions
Docker Landing Page
11

Docker

Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Container Tools 62 social mentions
ENIGMA – LateralGM Landing Page
12

ENIGMA – LateralGM

LateralGM is a powerful IDE for ENIGMA, and both of these combine to offer you a cross-platform game environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development #Gaming Software #Game Engine