Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Pygame

The top open-source alternatives to Pygame 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
Flutter.dev Landing Page
4

Flutter.dev

Build beautiful native apps in record time 🚀
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development Tools #Application Builder #Mobile App Development 340 social mentions
RenPy Landing Page
5

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
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
raylib Landing Page
7

raylib

Cross-platform, open-source game development library in C.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 6 social mentions
Grit Game Engine Landing Page
8

Grit Game Engine

The Grit Game Engine is an MIT-Licensed Open Source Game Engine that is highly scriptable via Lua.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #2D Game Engine
ct.js Landing Page
9

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
pyglet Landing Page
10

pyglet

Cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #2D Game Engine 7 social mentions
Polycode Landing Page
11

Polycode

Polycode is a C++ and Lua framework for building interactive applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #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