Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Unity 2D

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Cloud Storage Game Development Game Engine Tool Video Video Converter

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Unity 2D are Godot Engine, MonoGame, and Orx. 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
MonoGame Landing Page
2

MonoGame

MonoGame is an open source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 2 social mentions
Orx Landing Page
3

Orx

Orx - a portable open source game engine
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine
LibGDX Landing Page
4

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
raylib Landing Page
5

raylib

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

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
7

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
ct.js Landing Page
8

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
SFML Landing Page
9

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
LITIengine Landing Page
10

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
Crafty.js Landing Page
11

Crafty.js

Crafty is a JavaScript game library that can help you create games in a structured way…
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine
VideoLan Landing Page
12

VideoLan

VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Video Converter #Cloud Storage 29 social mentions