Open Source BSD Game Engines
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Browse free open source Game Engines and projects for BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Game Engines by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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3D game engine (more powerful redesign of the Cube engine) and FPS game
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A game engine for running Ultima7 on modern operating systems, plus a map-editor and other tools for creating your own mods and games.
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QuakeSpasm
A modern, cross-platform Quake game engine based on FitzQuake.
QuakeSpasm is a *Nix friendly Quake Engine based on the SDL port of the popular FitzQuake. It includes some new features, important fixes, and aims for portability and 64 bit correctness. -
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OpenRA
Real Time Strategy game engine supporting early Westwood classics
OpenRA is a free and open source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games like Command & Conquer: Red Alert. It is not just a clone of the original but is a recreation, with improved and rebalanced gameplay that modernizes the classic Command & Conquer strategy games. It provides a common platform for rebuilding and reimagining classic 2D and 2.5D RTS games (the OpenRA mods). This means that OpenRA is not restricted by the technical limitations of the original closed-source games: it includes native support for modern operating systems and screen resolutions (including Windows 10, Mac OS X, and most Linux distros) without relying on emulation or binary hacks, and features integrated online multiplayer. -
MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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ursina
A game engine powered by python and panda3d
ursina is an easy-to-use, open source game engine and framework for Python that is built on top of Panda3D, aiming to make game development approachable while still being powerful enough for real projects. It lets you create both 2D and 3D games, applications, and visualizations by writing concise Python scripts instead of dealing with a lot of low-level boilerplate. The engine is centered around an Entity-based architecture, where everything in the scene is an object you can easily configure and manipulate from code. Ursina focuses heavily on iteration speed, offering in-game reloading of code, textures, and models so you can tweak and test changes quickly. It includes many batteries-included features such as a mesh API for procedural geometry, built-in animation and tweening, pre-made controllers like FirstPersonController and EditorCamera, and a library of shaders and 3D primitives. -
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GemRB Game Engine
GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of the Infinity Engine
GemRB (Game engine made with pre-Rendered Background) is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware's Infinity Engine. It was written to support pseudo-3D role playing games based on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset (Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series, Planescape: Torment). It should run on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X, possibly other UNIX derivatives and more. It is licensed under the GPL. -
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Amazon Lumberyard
Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine
Amazon Lumberyard is (or was) a free AAA-capable game engine developed by AWS, with deep integration into AWS cloud services and the Twitch streaming platform. It provided full source access and offered developers tools to build high-quality games and simulations with networking, rendering, physics and cloud backend features built in. The engine allowed game creators to hook into AWS infrastructure for multiplayer services, analytics, voice chat, and more, and leveraged Twitch to build live-stream-enabled experiences. Although Amazon has since archived the repository and transitioned focus to the open-source successor Open 3D Engine (O3DE), the project remains of interest as a large-scale example of cloud-enabled game engine architecture. Developers studying game tech or infrastructure integration can inspect how the engine’s subsystems were designed, including entity/component architectures, rendering pipelines and networked game services. -
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VASSAL is a game engine for creating electronic versions of traditional board and card games. It provides support for game piece rendering and interaction, and supports play by email or over a live connection.
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Ambient
The multiplayer game engine
Ambient is an open-source, cross-platform runtime and engine for building and deploying high-performance multiplayer games and 3D applications, using a modern stack built on Rust, WebAssembly (WASM), and WebGPU. It aims to make multiplayer game development accessible and flexible, providing an entity-component-system (ECS) at its core that doubles as a real-time in-game database; everything in the game — from world objects to runtime data — is represented as entities + components, which can be synchronized across clients automatically. Ambient supports a package-based workflow reminiscent of Rust’s crate system, where “packages” bundle code, assets, and schema definitions; this modular design encourages reuse, mixing, and sharing of content. The engine includes an asset pipeline that can stream and load common 3D formats (e.g. GLB, FBX) on demand, so players don’t need to pre-download large asset bundles — the engine handles asset streaming. -
Build Agents and Models on One PlatformGemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google Cloud's comprehensive platform for developers to build, scale, govern, and optimize agents and models. Choose from Google's most advanced models and third-party models like Anthropic's Claude Model Family.
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Doomsday Engine
DOOM / Heretic / Hexen source port with enhanced graphics and UI
A portable game engine for classic first person shooters such as DOOM, Heretic and Hexen. Lets you enjoy the original games using modern technology, including high-resolution OpenGL graphics, 3D models, and dynamic lighting effects. -
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Spring RTS Engine
Spring is a free RTS engine developed for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI, to unit AI, to pathfinding. -
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Aleph One is the open source continuation of Bungie's Marathon 2 FPS game engine. Aleph One plays Marathon, Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and 3rd-party content on a wide array of platforms, with (optional) OpenGL rendering, Internet play, Lua scripting, and more.
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Castle Game Engine
Game engine supporting many 3D/2D formats and graphic effects
This project has moved to: - Our website https://castle-engine.io/ - GitHub repo: https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/ Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine for Object Pascal. Rendering and processing of game assets in glTF, X3D, VRML, Collada, Spine and other formats. Many graphic effects including shadows, shaders, mirrors, screen effects. Animation, collision detection, 3D sound. Extensible system of 3D objects, with out-of-the-box levels, items, intelligent creatures and more. Desktop, mobile, web plugin. Also home of view3dscene - our full-featured VRML/X3D browser. -
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Clay
High performance UI layout library in C
Clay (short for “C Layout”) is a high-performance 2D UI layout library in C, offering a declarative, Flexbox-like layout model with microsecond performance. It features a single-header design, zero dependencies, and support for WebAssembly, making it lightweight yet powerful for responsive UI rendering. The Clay macro by default accepts an ID as its first argument, which is usually provided by the CLAY_ID() convenience macro. Elements can also be created with auto-generated IDs, by using the CLAY_AUTO_ID() macro. Element IDs have two main use cases. Firstly, tagging an element with an ID allows you to query information about the element later, such as its mouseover state or dimensions. Secondly, IDs are visually useful when attempting to read and modify UI code, as well as when using the built-in debug tools. -
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Ebitengine
A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
Ebitengine (formerly known as Ebiten) is a lightweight, open-source 2D game engine built for the Go programming language. It is designed to be simple and easy to use, allowing developers to build games quickly with a clean and minimal API. Ebitengine supports cross-platform deployment, including desktop, mobile, web, and select console platforms. The engine provides essential features such as 2D graphics rendering, input handling, and audio playback. Developers can work with transformations, shaders, and offscreen rendering to create polished visuals. Built-in support for keyboards, mice, gamepads, and touch input ensures flexible control schemes. Overall, Ebitengine focuses on productivity and portability while maintaining strong performance. -
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CoffeeMud
Full featured MUD server with all the trimmings.
CoffeeMud is a text-based virtual reality game engine (a MUD). It is a mature, full-featured Java codebase. It includes web (HTTP) and email (SMTP) servers, chat (IMC2 and I3) and web clients, and supports ANSI, MXP, and MSP. -
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Descent 3
Descent 3 by Outrage Entertainment
The Descent3 repository is the open source release of the Descent 3 game engine by Outrage Entertainment, maintained by the community under the GPL-3.0 license. It provides the full C and C++ engine source code, including the historically significant “1.5” patch that was previously created by developers and later stabilized by fans. The codebase covers the game’s rendering, physics, audio, networking, tools, and editor components, allowing enthusiasts to build, run, and modify the classic 6-degrees-of-freedom space shooter on modern systems. To actually play the game, users must supply their own original game assets, following instructions in the repository’s usage documentation. The project uses CMake and related modern tooling for cross-platform builds, with support for Linux and Windows among other environments. A dedicated community maintains the engine, publishes updated releases, documents internals on a wiki, and coordinates contributions via an active Discord server and GitHub. -
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Godot Minimal Theme
Godot Minimal Theme
Godot Minimal Theme is not a game engine itself, but rather a custom editor theme designed for Godot Engine — aiming to offer a clean, minimalistic, and visually comfortable interface for the Godot editor. The theme adjusts base colors, accent colors, contrast, icon saturation, corner radii, fonts, and other UI settings to deliver a more modern, streamlined, and easier-on-the-eyes editor appearance. It has been tested and confirmed compatible with several recent Godot versions (4.3, 4.4, 4.5), and many users believe it significantly improves the usability and aesthetic of the Godot editor, especially for extended coding or scene-building sessions. By offering a well-tuned default set of UI parameters (color scheme, font recommendations, layout tweaks), it saves users the trouble of configuring their own setup — and ensures consistency across different projects or machines. Because it’s open source, users can further customize or fork it to suit their personal preferences. -
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Spartan Engine
A game engine with an emphasis on real-time cutting-edge solutions
SpartanEngine is a C++ game engine focused on cutting-edge real-time rendering and simulation, developed primarily as a long-running personal research project and now grown into a community-driven platform. It centers around a modern Vulkan renderer (with an in-progress DirectX 12 backend) and a fully bindless, unified deferred rendering pipeline designed to handle hundreds of millions of instances. The engine implements a wide range of advanced graphics features, such as atmospheric scattering, physically based shading, screen-space shadows and ambient occlusion, screen-space reflections, sophisticated shadow mapping, volumetric fog, and HDR output. It supports next-gen performance and image quality technologies including variable rate shading, dynamic resolution scaling, temporal anti-aliasing, and upscaling via XeSS 2 and FSR 3. Beyond rendering, SpartanEngine offers PhysX-powered physics, CPU and GPU profiling, a thread pool for parallel workloads. -
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Smokin' Guns is a GPLv2 licensed first person Western style shooter based on the Quake 3 engine (Id Tech 3) developed by a loosely knit team of developers and artists. This project represents the game engine.
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A game engine for running Origin's 'Ultima 6' and 'Ultima Worlds of Adventure' games on modern operating systems.
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F·W·K
3D game engine/framework in C, with Luajit and Python bindings now
3D game framework in C, with Luajit and Python bindings now. -
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Mach Engine
Zig game engine & graphics toolkit
Mach is a game engine and graphics toolkit written in Zig, built with the goal of enabling high-performance, truly cross-platform 2D, 3D, GUI, and visualization applications. The project aims to deliver a modular, robust foundation where graphics, input, windowing, and rendering are unified under a modern, low-level but ergonomic API. Because Mach is written in Zig (with some shader code / WGSL), it leverages Zig’s performance and modern systems-level features while offering safe-ish abstractions compared to raw graphics APIs. The engine supports a broad set of target platforms — desktop OSes and in principle, future expansion — and tries to simplify the pain of dependency management and cross-compilation, making it easier to build and deploy across systems without complex toolchains. Mach’s philosophy emphasizes composability and modularity: rather than pushing a “big engine with everything included,” it gives developers the building blocks to create exactly what they need. -
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Haxima is an Ultima-like game engine (2D tile graphics) with combat, magic, NPC AI, an embedded scripting language, and in-game editing.
