Rust Gamedev

Open-source Rust projects categorized as Gamedev

Top 23 Rust Gamedev Projects

  1. bevy

    A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

    Project mention: Bevy 0.20 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-10-08

    I was curious how the design was arrived at and found some of the trade-offs discussed in this issue[0]. I personally liked the idea of using a combination of semicolons and commas to separate entities and components; but oh well, I guess we'll get used to the double-dash.

    [0]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/25616

  2. AppSignal

    Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

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  3. egui

    egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

    Project mention: Fastpotify | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-31

    on Firefox and Windows, it's a disaster

    in addition to what other comments pointed out, on the demo ( https://www.egui.rs/#demo ) if you have a sidebar open, there is an offset of approximately the sidebar's width (though not exactly) between the system's mouse pointer position and the web app

  4. pyxel

    A retro game engine for Python

    Project mention: Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-10-01
  5. Pumpkin

    Empowering everyone to host fast and efficient Minecraft servers

    Project mention: Pumpkin: Building a Minecraft server in Rust, First release after 2 years | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-06
  6. Fyrox

    3D and 2D game engine written in Rust

    Project mention: Fyrox Game Engine now supports wgpu | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-18
  7. gdext

    Rust bindings for Godot 4

  8. Ambient

    The multiplayer game engine

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. rx

    👾 Modern and minimalist pixel editor (by cloudhead)

  11. valence

    A Rust framework for building Minecraft servers.

  12. spritefusion-pixel-snapper

    A tool to snap pixels to a perfect grid. Designed to fix messy and inconsistent pixel art generated by AI.

    Project mention: Isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-23

    Someone else posted this on HN a while back -- https://github.com/Hugo-Dz/spritefusion-pixel-snapper

    Maybe you can use that^ to snap the pixels to a perfect grid

  13. avian

    ECS-driven 2D and 3D physics engine for the Bevy game engine.

  14. feather

    A Minecraft server implementation in Rust (by feather-rs)

  15. bevy-cheatbook

    Unofficial Reference Book for the Bevy Game Engine

    Project mention: Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-08
  16. ash

    Vulkan bindings for Rust

  17. mun

    Source code for the Mun language and runtime.

  18. bevy_hanabi

    🎆 Hanabi — a GPU particle system plugin for the Bevy game engine.

  19. Coffee

    An opinionated 2D game engine for Rust (by hecrj)

  20. kira

    Library for expressive game audio.

  21. Tetra

    🎮 A simple 2D game framework written in Rust

  22. notan

    Cross-platform multimedia layer

  23. renet

    Server/Client network library for multiplayer games with authentication and connection management made with Rust

  24. shipyard

    Entity Component System focused on usability and flexibility.

  25. parry

    2D and 3D collision-detection library for Rust.

  26. SaaSHub

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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).

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What are some of the best open-source Gamedev projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 bevy 48,734
2 egui 31,170
3 pyxel 18,411
4 Pumpkin 12,151
5 Fyrox 9,577
6 gdext 5,268
7 Ambient 3,905
8 rx 3,460
9 valence 3,281
10 spritefusion-pixel-snapper 3,265
11 avian 3,210
12 feather 2,701
13 bevy-cheatbook 2,368
14 ash 2,357
15 mun 2,147
16 bevy_hanabi 1,425
17 Coffee 1,147
18 kira 1,069
19 Tetra 1,011
20 notan 971
21 renet 951
22 shipyard 891
23 parry 880

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