The Best 45 GameMaker: Studio Alternatives

  • Orx

    Orx is an open source, portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. Orx is mostly written in C, but allows you to develop with it with any language that can interface to C.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

  • Phaser

    Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Duality

    Duality is a modular 2D game engine / editor combo, written entirely in C# and built on top of an OpenGL backend.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Amazon Lumberyard

    Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch – with full source.

    Free Windows

  • QICI Engine

    QICI Engine is a free and opensource JavaScript library, based on free and opensource game engine Phaser, with a web-based comprehensive suite of HTML5 game making editor.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows

  • Open RPG Maker

    Open RPG Maker is a free and open source clone of features from the RPG Maker series (i.e. rpgmaker200, rpgmaker2003, rpgmakerxp), as well as many other features.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Mac

  • Cocos Creator

    Cocos Creator is a complete package of game development tools and workflow, including a game engine (based on Cocos2d-x), resource management, scene editing, game preview, debug and publish one project to multiple platforms.

    Free Mac OS X Windows

  • Babylon.js

    A complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL and Web Audio.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Web

  • Spark Game Engine

    Revolutionizing game development, make any game you want without a line of code! 3D, 2D, even multiplayer games! CREATE YOUR GAME ONCE Develop your game once, and...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Arcade Game Studio

    Making games as the '80s arcade games. Includes Run'n'Gun, vertical & horizontal Shooters or Platform, makes games as Pac-Man, Commando, 1942, Ghosts...

    Free Windows

  • Whitestorm.js

    Whitestorm.js is a framework for 3D web apps built with Three.js technology. It implements a core for fast development of a 3D scene with physics.

    Free Open Source Web

  • fabric engine

    Fabric Engine is a platform for developing high-performance custom tools for visual effects, games, real-time visualization and VR/AR work.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Stingray

    Autodesk Stingray 3D game engine and design visualization software helps developers and designers produce visually stunning experiences.

    Commercial Windows

  • Amulet

    Amulet is a free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Construct 3

    Construct 3 is a powerful 2D game development engine which uses Scirra's intuitive event system to allow its users to build all kinds of games and apps.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

  • GeeXLab

    GeeXLab is a cross-platform demotool for 3D programming, demos creation, game development, interactive applications, creative coding and prototyping.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Raspberry Pi

  • LÖVR

    A simple framework for creating VR with Lua. LÖVR projects work on Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can run the same code on an HTC Vive or an Oculus Rift, and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • melonJS

    melonJS is an open source HTML5 game engine that empowers developers and designers to focus on content.

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted JavaScript