Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to PICO-8

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Big Data Data Analysis Databases Game Development Game Engine Graph Databases IDE NoSQL Databases Realtime Feedback Visual Novel Engine

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to PICO-8 are TIC-80, Godot Engine, 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.

TIC-80 Landing Page
1

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
Godot Engine Landing Page
2

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 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
WASM-4 Landing Page
4

WAS

WASM-4

Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Graph Databases #Game Development 4 social mentions
Unity Landing Page
5

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
Twine Landing Page
6

Twine

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Visual Novel Engine #IDE #Game Development 276 social mentions
RenPy Landing Page
7

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
LOVE 2D Landing Page
8

LOVE 2D

Hi there! LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #2D Game Engine 181 social mentions
neo4j Landing Page
9

neo4j

Meet Neo4j: The graph database platform powering today's mission-critical enterprise applications, including artificial intelligence, fraud detection and recommendations.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graph Databases #Big Data #Databases 27 social mentions
Defold Engine Landing Page
10

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
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
OrientDB Landing Page
12

OrientDB

OrientDB - The World's First Distributed Multi-Model NoSQL Database with a Graph Database Engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graph Databases #NoSQL Databases #Databases 1 social mentions