Alternatives to Godot Engine

A 2D and 3D game engine that is completely free under the MIT licence, with no royalties and no revenue thresholds. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Godot Engine.

  • GDevelop

    Build games with a visual event system instead of writing all the logic as code.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxWeb

    GDevelop is also MIT-licensed and exports to several platforms, but game logic is built with a visual event system and hosted cloud publishing has plan limits.

  • LOVE

    Framework for making 2D games in Lua.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxAndroid

    LOVE is a Zlib-licensed Lua framework for 2D games only, with no editor, scene tool or asset pipeline, and no 3D support.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Godot Engine as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Bitsy

    Create small games and stories with a browser-based pixel-art editor.

    FreeOpen sourceWeb

    Godot Engine is a full MIT-licensed 2D and 3D engine with desktop, mobile, web and console export, and it has a much larger feature set to learn.

  • GB Studio

    Make Game Boy-style games with a visual editor.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Godot is a full 2D and 3D engine under the MIT licence with export to desktop, mobile and web, but it expects scripting rather than purely visual events.