Unreal Engine Alternatives

CryEngine is an commercial open-source game engine designed and developed by the German game developer Crytek. With CryEngine, game creators can achieve their goals faster by building games on an already proven game engine that provides its full source code. The engine is provided with no up-front cost, only a royalty percentage of 5% of the gross receipt, which makes it perfect for game developers and teams with a low budget or funding. Surrounding the project is a large community and a market place filled with user-made game assets that can be used to increase the speed-to-market.

Unity is a cross-platform game engine and development platform created by Unity Technologies. With Unity game developers can build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, consoles, VR/AR or the Web. Unity was first released as OS X-exclusive game engine but as of 2018 the engine had been extended to support more than 25 platforms.

GDevelop is a 2D cross-platform, free and open-source game engine that takes visual programming to the next level. GDevelop allows you to take read-made behaviours and add them to your game objects or create new once with intuitive and east to use events. With GDevelop, it is easy to make games for PC and Mobile, as well as launch HTML5 games playable right in your web browser.

Amazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform game engine based on the famous CryEngine. With Amazon Lumberyard, you can create games without royalties, seat fees and additional costs. Since the game engine is developed by Amazon it provides some interesting integrations out-of-the-box. Lumberyard provides frictionless integration with Twitch and AWS for hosting and displaying and promoting your new game.

Torque 3D is a premier open-source game engine. Torque 3D includes both a high-performance forward-rendering basic lighting engine, and a deferred-rendering advanced lighting mode. A plugin system for physics, and networking capabilities with a server authoritative networking model, used for multiplayer games. The game engine has been used to create everything from driving simulators to MMOs to first-person shooters.

Three.js is a free and open-source JavaScript 3D library. The aim of the project is to create an easy to use, lightweight, 3D library with a default WebGL renderer. The library also provides Canvas 2D, SVG and CSS3D renderers in the examples.

Godot is a free and open-source 2D and 3D, cross-platform, game engine released under the MIT license. With Godot, you can develop games using Go or GDScript. Godot provides a huge set of common tools for game production, so that you can focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel. The development environment runs on multiple operating systems including Linux, macOS, and Windows and can compile games for PC, Mobile and the web browser.

Blender is a free and open-source 3D model software released under the GNU General Public License. The software can be used for 3D modeling, 3D animation, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, rendering, particle generation, water simulation and much more.

With Verge3D you can add a third dimension to your online presence. Verge3D is a real-time renderer and a toolkit used for creating interactive 3D experiences running on websites. The software is used in a wide range of online products and pages to boost sales with 3D product configuration, e-Learning and interactive guides and immersive experience that promotes projects.

RPG Maker is an online role playing game engine and toolset that be used to create RPG titles. RPG Maker can be used in the browser to create any 2D RPG, the software includes all the tools and as needed. A map editor that can be used to design environments for your player to explore. The Map Editor allows you to pick items for a large collection of graphics to build towns, dungeons and amazing worlds. A Character Generator that can be used to heroes and NPCs with unique hair, eyes, clothes and accessories. Underlying all this is the Database, that comes with RPG Maker, it is the core of your game. It allows you do everything from setting your character name, stats, appearance, and skills, to defining equipment, enemies, and battle states. When it is time to launch your game, you can do so as a freeware or for commercial use. No commercial license is required to publish games with RPG Maker.