Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Scratch

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2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Developer Tools Game Development Game Engine Hospitality IDE JavaScript Tools Kids Education Realtime Feedback SSL Certificates Visual Novel Engine

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Scratch are Godot Engine, GDevelop, and Unity. 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
GDevelop Landing Page
2

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
Unity Landing Page
3

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
Blockly Landing Page
4

Blockly

Blockly is a library for building visual programming editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #JavaScript Tools 29 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
Stencyl Landing Page
6

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
LOVE 2D Landing Page
7

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
Twine Landing Page
8

Twine

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Visual Novel Engine #IDE #Game Development 275 social mentions
Defold Engine Landing Page
9

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
Alice Landing Page
10

Alice

Alice is used to teach students how to code.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Kids Education #Hospitality #Developer Tools 1 social mentions
Cocos Creator Landing Page
11

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
Phaser Landing Page
12

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