Top 11 C++ 2d-game-engine Projects

flare-engine

3 1,069 8.1 C++

Free/Libre Action Roleplaying Engine (engine only)

Project mention: Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects | dev.to | 2024-04-10

Flare Engine - ARPG Engine inspired by Diablo 2. C++, SDL2

echo

1 916 8.0 C++

A New Cross-Platform 2D 3D Game Engine (by timi-liuliang)

Project mention: Echo open source game engine | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-08

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
ObEngine

2 787 6.7 C++

2D Game Engine with Lua Scripting made on top of SFML !

Project mention: Not only Unity... | /r/opensourcegames | 2023-11-11

detonator

9 264 9.8 C++

2D game engine and editor 💥💣

Project mention: Show HN: Detonator2D a 2D game engine and editor | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-04

freeaoe

2 202 0.0 C++

A free game engine capable of running Age of Empires 2 and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
Game-Engine-Development-Series

1 70 2.8 C++

Game Engine Development Series - Learn to code a Game Engine in C++ from scratch
ALPACA

3 43 8.8 C++

A Library for Point And Click Adventures (by pinguin999)

Project mention: Point and Click Adventure Engine | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-20

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
brux-gdk

2 38 4.7 C++

Free runtime and development kit using SDL and Squirrel

Project mention: SuperTux Advance - A 16 bit style SuperTux Game | /r/linux_gaming | 2023-05-15

Game is written in a language "Squirrel" I had never heard before, with a game engine he wrote himself too, well mostly himself. Impressive!

stylized_snake_game

1 38 0.0 C++

A cross-platform desktop stylized version of snake game made from scratch in C++/OpenGL.
tnt

1 32 2.6 C++

A 2d Game Engine written in C++20. (by TerensTare)
RAG3

1 22 10.0 C++

Top-down single/multiplayer shooter game with time manipulation mechanics.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

C++ 2d-game-engine related posts

Unity: We Have Heard You
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2023
GameStudio: Yet Another 2D Game engine and editor for Windows and Linux
2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 9 Mar 2022
Just stumbled upon this amazing little piece...
2 projects | /r/flare | 5 Apr 2021

Index

What are some of the best open-source 2d-game-engine projects in C++? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	flare-engine	1,069
2	echo	916
3	ObEngine	787
4	detonator	264
5	freeaoe	202
6	Game-Engine-Development-Series	70
7	ALPACA	43
8	brux-gdk	38
9	stylized_snake_game	38
10	tnt	32
11	RAG3	22