The Best 25 Monkey X Alternatives

  • LÖVE

    Hi there! LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone BSD iPad FreeBSD

  • Construct Classic

    Construct Classic is a free, DirectX 9 game creator for Windows, designed for 2D games. It uses an event based system for defining how the game behaves, in a visual, human-readable way - you dont need to program or script anything at all.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Game Editor

    Game Editor is the open source game design software that gives you the power to create the games of your dreams, and, unlike other game creation tools, gives you the chance to get and change the source code of the game creator and design...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Pygame

    Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the excellent SDL library.

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

  • Atomic Game Engine

    The Atomic Game Engine features a cross-platform editor with deployment to Windows, OSX, Linux, WebGL, Android, and iOS.

    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

  • OpenFL

    Build games and applications for almost every platform imaginable -- Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Firefox OS, Tizen, Flash and even HTML5.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux GitHub

  • Hero Engine

    HeroEngine is the only all-in-one development platform for making and operating online games.

    Commercial Windows

  • 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

  • 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

  • WorldForge

    The WorldForge project is the original open-source MMORPG project, dating back to 1997. The intent lies in creating a widely used development framework and set of...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • 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