HeroEngine — The Cloud-Based MMO Game Engine Behind SWTOR
HeroEngine powered Star Wars: The Old Republic with a pioneering cloud-based collaborative model. Here’s its history, the games built with it, its features, and its current status.
Game Development
GoldSrc: The Half-Life Engine’s History, Games and Legacy
The engine behind Half-Life and Counter-Strike: where the GoldSrc name came from, what Valve built on top of Quake, which games really used it, and its status in 2026.
Gold Box Engine: SSI’s AD&D RPGs, Every Game, and How to Play Them Today
From Pool of Radiance to Unlimited Adventures, SSI’s Gold Box engine defined computer D&D. Here’s how it worked, every game built on it, and where to play them now.
Godot Game Engine
Godot is a cross platform free and open source game engine with MIT (a light license) licensing. It is written in C++ and C# and used to develop 2D and 3D games. The development environment runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux and develops games for platforms like windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, HTML5, WebAssembly and Xbox One.
Gameplay3D Game Engine
Gameplay 3D is a Cross-platform game engine used to develop 2D and 3D games. Written in C++, this is used to develop games for Windows, Android, Linux, Blackberry, iOS and MacOSX. The game engine supports Visual Studio, Xcode, CMake, Qt Creator and Android NDK platforms to develop and build the platform.
G3D Innovation Engine- A Teaching Game Engine
G3D Innovation Engine is a fully featured, cross platform game engine. This is a 3D engine written in C/C++. It is a commercial-grade, open source engine for different platforms i.e. Windows, Linus and Mac OS. The engine is licensed under BSD-2 license and mainly used for teaching purpose.
Gambryo – A mature game engine
Gambryo is a cross-platform game engine written in C++. It is a suit of several C++ libraries, plug-ins and run-time libraries. The engine supports several platforms like Windows, Android, Mac, Linux, iOS, Wii, Wii Ware, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS X, PS 2, PSP, PS3 and PS4.
Frostbite Engine — EA & DICE’s Game Engine: Games, Features & History
The Frostbite engine powers EA’s biggest games, from Battlefield to EA Sports FC. Here’s how DICE’s technology works, the games it drives, and why you can’t download it.
Exult – Free Game Engine
Exult is a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) game Engine. It is written in C++ and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. Exult was developed in 2004 to recreate a massive hit game of 1990’s called Ultima VII. It is created for the revival of Ultima VII (The Black Gate) and Ultima VII part2 (Serpent Isle) on modern PCs.
C++ Game Engine – Esenthel Game Engine
The word Esenthel is made by combining two words i.e. Essential and Essence. It is an open source game engine for developing commercial and noncommercial games (it is not Free, there are some limitations, i.e. its code cannot be used to create/improve other game engines.). It is written in C++ and is very easy to use. It uses very clean APIs. It is in development since 2000.
DX Studio
DX Studio produced by Worldweaver Ltd is an integrated development tool used to build 3D video games, simulations, or real-time interactive applications for either standalone, web-based, Microsoft Office or Visual Studio use. Written in C++, DX Studio is available to users in both standard and professional editions.
CryEngine — Complete Version History, Games, and Developer Guide
CryEngine powered Far Cry, Crysis, Hunt: Showdown, and Kingdom Come II. Every version, every game, and where Crytek’s engine really stands today.