Open Source Android Game Engines
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View 5 business solutionsBrowse free open source Game Engines and projects for Android 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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Godot Engine
Godot is a powerful cross-platform game engine
Godot was created to provide a fully free, open source game development environment. To compile from source see the official docs here https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/development/compiling/ -
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Xash3D FWGS Engine
Xash3D FWGS engine
Xash3D FWGS is an open-source fork and extension of the original GoldSrc-based engine (from the classic era of first-person shooters), aimed at providing compatibility with the original engine (e.g. games built on it) while extending and modernizing its capabilities. The engine supports multiple rendering backends (OpenGL, GLES, software fallback), modern platforms (desktop OSes, mobile, etc.), and updated features such as better multiplayer, voice chat, IPv6 support, improved virtual filesystem, and support for modern asset formats. For modders or fans of classic games, Xash3D FWGS offers a way to play or build games using the familiar GoldSrc workflow but with updated portability and features. Legacy mods and maps for supported games can often be used unchanged (or with minimal modifications), preserving the classic experience. At the same time, the engine’s enhancements — modern input support (gamepad, touch), modern OS compatibility, cross-platform builds. -
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MineTest
Open source voxel game engine with support for survival and crafting
An open source voxel game engine. -
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GDevelop
The game engine for everyone
GDevelop is an open-source, cross-platform game development software designed to make creating HTML5 and native games easy for everyone. Experts and novices alike can create their own games with GDevelop as it is fast and easy to learn, requiring no knowledge in a specific programming language. What makes GDevelop unique and so easy to use is its powerful and intuitive event-based system. Events are a powerful way to build up your game logic, without having to learn a programming language. GDevelop also features ready-made behaviors for your game objects, and allows you to create new behaviors through the easy to learn events. And when you're done, you can publish your game just about anywhere-- web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and even Facebook Messenger. Making games has never been easier or faster than with GDevelop! -
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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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Luanti
Voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation
Luanti, originally known as Minetest, is a free, open-source voxel game engine and platform designed to let players, modders, and developers build and play diverse sandbox-style 3D worlds. Written in C++ for core performance and Lua for scripting, Luanti runs on multiple operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD variants and even Android), making it highly accessible and cross-platform. Rather than being a single game, Luanti is meant as an engine and toolkit: individual “games” are actually collections of mods — written in Lua — that define terrain, items, NPCs, mechanics, and rules. This modular design enables rich customization and community-driven content: users can install new games, mods, and texture packs via a built-in content browser that draws from a central repository (ContentDB). Luanti supports both single-player and multiplayer via servers; players can host their own or join publicly listed ones, with server-side mods being applied automatically. -
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Redot Engine
Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Redot Engine is an open-source game engine that aims to provide a flexible foundation for building games — likely offering a modern, modular structure so developers can compose only the systems they need (rendering, physics, input, scripting, etc.). It is built to give a base framework rather than a full “batteries-included” engine, which makes it suitable for developers who prefer minimalism, want complete control over architecture, or desire to build custom workflows. Because it’s open-source, Redot-Engine is potentially community-driven, allowing anyone to inspect, extend, or customize core functionalities. Its modularity and open nature make it attractive for indie developers or hobbyists who want to avoid heavyweight engines with lots of built-in assumptions. Even if the engine may not yet rival more mature engines in features or polish, its openness and design philosophy can offer an appealing balance between simplicity and flexibility. -
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Axmol Engine
Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games
Axmol is a modern C++ game engine forked from Cocos2d-x, designed to support high-performance 2D and lightweight 3D game development across multiple platforms. It improves upon the original Cocos2d-x with a cleaner architecture, better tooling, and support for modern C++ standards. Axmol supports scripting with Lua and JavaScript, and is suitable for both indie developers and studios targeting mobile, desktop, and web platforms. With an active community and frequent updates, Axmol is a solid choice for cross-platform game development. -
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Cocos Engine
Cocos simplifies game creation and distribution with Cocos Creator
The Cocos Engine repository powers the open-source core of Cocos Creator, a cross-platform game engine and editor designed for building 2D and 3D games for web and native targets. It aims to simplify game creation and distribution, with support for high-performance rendering, physics, scene management, asset pipelines, and more. The engine is built using a mix of C++ (for performance-critical systems) and TypeScript/JavaScript (for scripting), enabling developers to script game logic while relying on a robust, high-performance core. Because of its cross-platform nature, games built with cocos-engine (via Cocos Creator) can target mobile, desktop, and web, making it a popular choice for developers wanting flexibility and broad reach. The engine includes extensive tooling and example/demo projects to demonstrate 2D and 3D physics, animation, UI and rendering capabilities. -
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HaxeFlixel
Free, cross-platform 2D game engine powered by Haxe and OpenFL
HaxeFlixel is an open-source 2D game framework built on top of the cross-platform toolkit Haxe + OpenFL, designed to allow developers to build games that can run on web, desktop, and mobile targets from a single codebase. Because it uses Haxe and OpenFL, HaxeFlixel games can compile to many targets: native desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux), mobile (Android, iOS), as well as web (HTML5), and even historically Flash. It is licensed under MIT and completely free for personal or commercial use. HaxeFlixel emphasizes ease of use and rapid development for 2D games — ideal for pixel-art platformers, card games, puzzles, or 2D action games. It includes common utilities and abstractions for sprites, animations, input handling, game loops, asset management, and state transitions, making it easier to build a complete game without reinventing core infrastructure. Because of this, it has been used for successful indie games and prototypes alike, and remains a popular choice among developers. -
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OGRE
scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine (C++, Python, C#, Java)
OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce games and demos utilizing 3D hardware. The class library abstracts all the details of using the underlying system libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL and provides an interface based on world objects and other intuitive classes. We consider the results of our GL3Plus RenderSystem as the gold standard. The respective shaders are generated by the RTSS component with per-pixel specular lighting. Therefore the legacy render systems naturally have differences due to the use of fixed-function. However, when rendering diffuse surface both produce pixel-perfect results. Simple, easy to use OO interface designed to minimise the effort required to render 3D scenes, and to be independent of 3D implementation i.e. Direct3D/OpenGL. -
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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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Atomic Game Engine
The Atomic Game Engine is a multi-platform 2D and 3D engine
Atomic Game Engine is an open-source, cross-platform game engine that supports both 2D and 3D game development, giving developers flexibility in choosing the style and scope of their projects. It provides a full suite of engine tools — rendering, scene management, input, asset pipelines, scripting (C++ and optionally JavaScript), and more — which allows teams or solo developers to build rich interactive applications and games without assembling disparate libraries. Because of this versatility, AtomicGameEngine is useful both for small indie games and more ambitious 3D or hybrid projects, especially if developers want an engine that doesn’t lock them into heavy runtime dependencies or license costs. Its architecture encourages modularity and ease of use while still giving access to powerful graphics and engine systems. For developers with C++ experience (or comfortable with JavaScript for scripting), AtomicGameEngine offers a balance between power and ease-of-use. -
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Urho3D
Urho3D Game engine
Urho3D is a game engine made by developers, for developers. The code is clean and well-commented. Urho3D is free and will always be free. There is no hidden royalties. It is IDE-agnostic and has no vendor lock-in. Urho3D runs on Windows, Linux, macOS/iOS/tvOS, Android, and even on Raspberry Pi. It also runs on your browsers. You need an installed Urho3D library for the desired target platform to proceed. Although the Urho3D build system also supports linking the Urho3D library directly from its build tree, this quick start section will not be discussing it here. Assuming you have been following along from the previous section, execute the following commands to create a new UrhoApp project, and then build it. The build artifacts from DBE can be found in the usual location as the conventional (non-dockerized) build environment. In fact the build artifacts from DBE should function and work as if they are built using the conventional way too. -
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Urho3D
Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine
!!! The project repositories have been migrated to https://github.com/urho3d/Urho3D !!! -
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Erebus
Real-time RPG for PC/tablet/phone; multiple quests and random dungeons
Erebus is a 2D real-time role-playing game, for Windows, Linux, Symbian and Android. This is under development, though already playable with three quests. Classic point-n-click style RPG, with dungeons to explore, enemies to fight, NPCs to talk to, sub-quests to complete, scenery to interact with, weapons, treasure and other items to find. Also supports Rogue-like keyboard controls. Binaries available for Windows and Android. Linux must be compiled from source. Older versions are available for Symbian. I am also developing the underlying game engine so that it can potentially be used to create new RPGs. -
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Orx: Portable Game Engine
Orx: Portable Game Engine
Orx is a portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. As orx is data driven, it allows users to create games with a small number of lines of code and reduces drastically the development time. -
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Android Game Engine
Multi-threaded game engine for Android
AGE is a multi-threaded game engine for Android with OpenGL ES2 shader-based rendering. In-depth GL knowledge isn't necessary to start; use the OBJ loader to import models from Blender and elsewhere, attach textures, and start rendering! Threads run different activities, e.g. initialization, framerate, timer, game cycle. Apartment model with message passing. The drawing cycle is inverted from typical game loops. Framerate has a dedicated timer, and SurfaceView is in on-demand rendering mode. Game Objects (GOs) opt-in to services by implementing the "marker" interface for each one it wants. GOs enter the system via Install Pipeline, an asynchronous "standard" implementation that keys on the marker interfaces and performs the "protocol" for that marker. There are also Event and Uninstall pipelines. Reference by name is encouraged. A trip through the pipeline includes a Bind Name List; allows GO to connect to interfaces in other GOs on the other End. -
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d13 - strategy browser game engine
online 4X browser game engine
d13 is a free browser game engine that allows you to build your own multiplayer online strategy game. suited for tick based empire building games that follow the 4X concept: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate. Despite its oldschool look and feel, d13 comes as a fully OOP, MVC web-application that features a responsive design as well as great flexibility. You can easily add troops, buildings and technologies and create templates and skins for the project as well. Live Demo: http://www.critical-hit.biz/d13 Documentation: http://www.critical-hit.biz NOTE: This is a DEV release. The project is currently version RC0, it is NOT recommended to build a full fledged game based on it. Please wait until d13 reaches RC1 - this will mark the first, stable release ready for production. -
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ArcadeGPU
A Complete WebGPU Game Engine for Browser & Desktop Arcade Oriented
ArcadeGPU is a high performance WebGPU game engine inspired by classic techniques that made retro games legendary. Explore demos: https://aliyah-corp.github.io/ -
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New-ZenGL
Cross-platform 2D game engine (+ full OpenGL, +full OpenGL ES )
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SanAndreasUnity
Open source reimplementation of GTA San Andreas game engine in Unity
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AndGraphics
Android OpenGL Game Engine
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Citrus-Engine
Modern AS3 Game Engine
Citrus Engine is a 2D game framework for ActionScript 3 that simplifies the development of physics-based games, especially platformers. Built on top of Starling and Box2D, it provides a component-based architecture and high-level abstractions for objects, input, levels, and camera control. It’s well-suited for educational games, side-scrollers, and mobile game development using Adobe AIR. -
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Digital Spork Game Engine
Cross platform 2D/3D game engine written in C++11 & OpenGL ES 2/3
Alpha: - Still in heavy development, but should be stable enough for use in small projects. - Features include OpenGL ES based scene graph system, sound (static and streaming), input handlers, scheduler, async job queues, and much more. - Supported platforms include iOS, Android, OSX, Linux, Windows, HTML5 (Emscripten).
