10 lesser known engines to make games for fun and relax

• corona

  20 2,414 8.1 C++

  Solar2D Game Engine main repository (ex Corona SDK) (by coronalabs)

  

I was a big fan of Solar2D (formerly known as CoronaSDK) for many years... I developed several games for the various App Stores. It's still around, free, and is now Open Source.

• bevy

  573 32,210 9.9 Rust

  A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

  

bevy

• 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.

  

• Fyrox

  62 7,187 9.9 Rust

  3D and 2D game engine written in Rust

  

also fyrox.rs

• ink

  163 3,885 0.0 C#

  inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative. (by inkle)

  

I really like Inky, Inkle studio's editor and language for interactive fiction games. It's like a beefier version of Twine.

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