The Best 55 3DVIA Studio Alternatives

  • Terragen

    Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows

  • Vue

    Create vast expanses of terrains, add trees, select the best point of view and render hyper-realistic images of your landscapes in moody atmospheres... in a few mouse clicks. Vue Pioneer is a great way to learn 3D.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • Bryce

    Bryce is an award winning, fun, feature-packed 3D modeling and animation package designed to allow new users to quickly create and render stunning 3D environments.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • World Machine

    World Machine is a proven terrain generation solution for artists, game developers, visual effects studios and other visualization professionals

    Freemium Windows

  • Leadwerks

    Low-cost video game development engine for Windows platforms.

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • PlayN

    PlayN is a cross-platform game library that allows you to create a single Java codebase that runs in HTML5, Java, Android and Flash.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Maratis

    Maratis is a portable, simple and visual game development tool designed for artists and developers. The Engine has been tested on Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS and can be used virtually on any platform. Maratis is Free and Open-source.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux iPhone iPad

  • Picogen

    A free Terrain Synthesizer and RendererPicogen is an outdoor ray tracing system, a free Terrain Synthesizer and Renderer targeting large-scale terrain with realistic...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator

    Nem's Mega 3D Terrain Generator is a relatively new terrain generator that takes a step in a completely different direction. Unlike traditional generators where the...

    Free Windows

  • Lobster

    Lobster is a game programming language. It was developed to make it easier for people who are already programmers to prototype and make games.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Kodu Game Lab

    Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as...

    Freemium Windows Xbox Live

  • Project Anarchy

    Project Anarchy is a complete end to end game engine and state-of-the-art toolset for mobile. Project Anarchy includes an entirely free license to ship your game on iOS...

    Free Windows

  • Minko

    3D. Everywhere. Minko is a technology to develop and design rich, interactive and universal 3D applications targeting computers, web browsers and mobile platforms. ...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • ENIGMA

    ENIGMA Development Environment -- A very high level language, compiled into a less high level language.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • FPS Creator Classic

    FPS Creator sets a new benchmark in the game creation market by providing an easy-to-use yet highly flexible editing environment. As its name implies this is a tool for...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Marmalade

    Marmalade is an award winning, cross-platform development tool built around the belief that developers should be free to innovate, create and craft fantastic content for...

    Free Personal Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Windows RT

  • Reality Factory 2

    Reality Factory 2 is a next-generation game authoring suite. It combines a flexible, fully scripted game development environment powered by Python with the Ogre3D...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Reality Factory

    Reality Factory is a program that - in conjunction with other tools - allows you to create 1st and 3rd person perspective games without programming! Reality Factory is...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Atavism Online Engine

    Atavism opens up development opportunities of virtual online worlds to everyone regardless of programming knowledge or artistic ability.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows