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Name Cost Popularity Rating Tags Last Release Details
GDevelop 0free (MIT) 105
 45 2d, sounds, collisions, physics, free, facebook, gdevelop, pixi, gui, fast, 1522796187Apr 3rd 2018 More Details
Modd.io 0free 105
 50 2d, sound, collision, free, cloud-based, game-maker, mobile, physics, map-editor, networking, 1567123200Aug 29th 2019 More Details
Construct 2 0.1varies 100
 40 game-maker, free, 2d, 3d, webgl, sounds, collisions, physics, 1408449600Aug 19th 2014 More Details
BabylonJS 0free 100
 50 webgl, 3d, sounds, collisions, physics, debug, 1527517336May 28th 2018 More Details
ImpactJS Engine 0free 85
 35 2d, sounds, collisions, physics, debug, map-editor, 1406548800Jul 28th 2014 More Details
Phaser 0free (MIT) 64
 45 flash-like, 2d, sounds, collisions, physics, typescript, webgl, free, 1522796187Apr 3rd 2018 More Details
GameMaker $200 54
 40 game-maker, 2d, sounds, collisions, physics, debug, map-editor, 1407499200Aug 8th 2014 More Details
Turbulenz 0free (MIT) 48
 35 2d, 3d, webgl, sounds, collisions, physics, debug, networking, 1450832952Dec 22nd 2015 More Details
melonJS 0free (MIT) 43
 45 2d, sounds, collisions, physics, free, map-editor, 1517063546Jan 27th 2018 More Details
Cocos2d-X 0free (MIT) 42
 45 ios-like, free, 2d, physics, 1430409687Apr 30th 2015 More Details
WADE 0free (varies) 42
 45 2d, isometric, modular, physics, 1407240000Aug 5th 2014 More Details
enchant.js 0free (MIT) 36
 35 2d, sounds, collisions, physics, webgl, free, 1451908327Jan 4th 2016 More Details
LimeJS 0free (Apache) 36
 40 2d, sounds, physics, free, 1433177258Jun 1st 2015 More Details
Isogenic Engine 0.1varies 34
 40 2d, isometric, physics, path-finding, networking, 1393263288Feb 24th 2014 More Details
Panda.js 0free (MIT) 31
 35 free, 2d, webgl, mobile, physics, sounds, modular, 1521139070Mar 15th 2018 More Details
Kiwi.js 0free (MIT) 30
 45 2d, webgl, physics, free, 1447625935Nov 15th 2015 More Details
GC DevKit 0free (Mozilla) 29
 35 2d, mobile-first, sounds, collisions, physics, debug, 1458840624Mar 24th 2016 More Details
FrozenJS 0free (MIT) 29
 40 2d, free, sounds, collisions, physics, 1379150294Sep 14th 2013 More Details
voxel.js 0free (BSD) 28
 40 webgl, 3d, voxel, sounds, physics, networking, 1444009007Oct 4th 2015 More Details
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