Unreal Engine 5 is a complete suite of game development tools made by game developers, for game developers. From 2D mobile games to console blockbusters, Unreal Engine 5 gives you everything you need to start, ship, grow and stand out from the crowd. Unreal Engine 5 is now available to everyone for free, and all future updates will be free! You can download the engine and use it for everything from game development, education, architecture, and visualization to VR, film and animation. Unreal Engine 5 is free to create linear content, custom projects, and internal projects. It’s free to get started for game development–a 5% royalty only kicks in when your title earns over $1 million USD.

Blender is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios.

Make beautiful 3D games for a range of devices, starting from desktop computers and ending with mid-range Android phones. Powered by OpenGL, Godot allows your projects to run on most modern GPUs, including integrated graphics. Develop and publish your project on any modern desktop platform. Let everyone play your game by deploying to web and mobile. Godot is free under the MIT license. This means you don't owe us anything (other than a friendly mention), and can do with your project or even the engine itself whatever you want. Build your game or build your own engine on top of it — it's all in your hands.

Clickteam Fusion 2.5 is the latest in the famous range of game creation software from Clickteam and now comes in a completely free edition! Containing all of the editors, interfaces and clever ideas that have made our previous titles so successful, now anyone on any budget can start developing powerful games and apps for free! Discover the simplicity of designing games and apps with just your mouse. From character and level design to programming, everything is done visually. If you can read, you can program with Fusion 2.5! Countless games made with Clickteam Fusion 2.5 and its predecessors have been published on Steam, the iOS App Store, Google Play & Android stores as well as numerous commercial web-sites. Versatile, multiplatform, simple, powerful, fast. Discover it for yourself and see what you can create today!

Game Editor is the open source game design software that gives you the power to create the games of your dreams in a simple interface and a basic version of the C language, and unlike other game creation tools it gives you the chance to get and change the source code of the game creator and design and develop 2D games for personal computers as well as mobile devices.

Make beautiful games for a range of devices, starting from desktop computers and ending with mid-range Android phones. Powered by OpenGL, Godot allows your projects to run on most modern GPUs, including integrated graphics. Develop and publish your project on any modern desktop platform. Let everyone play your game by deploying to web and mobile. Godot is free under the MIT license. This means you don't owe us anything (other than a friendly mention), and can do with your project or even the engine itself whatever you want. Build your game or build your own engine on top of it — it's all in your hands.

All versions of GameMaker are completely free to download. You’ll only need to upgrade to a paid GameMaker package if you’d like to export your games to certain platforms.