Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine for Windows PC

Godot Engine (64-bit)

Godot Engine (64-bit)

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Godot Engine 64bit is an advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open-source game engine for Windows PC! Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel.



Godot Engine 64bit is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code.

Features and Highlights

An extremely efficient paradigm for designing games
  • Visual editor, full of mature tools.
  • Uncluttered UI, with context-sensitive editors.
  • Amazing scene system, supporting instancing and inheritance.
  • Friendly content creation interfaces for artists, level designers, animators, …
  • Visual shader editing for 2D and 3D.
  • Persistent live editing (changes are not lost after stopping the game). Live editing on mobile devices!
Create any kind of complex 2D games
  • Fully dedicated 2D engine, no hacks.
  • Work in pixels as your units, but scale to any screen size and ratio.
  • Custom 2D physics engine that works in pixel coordinates.
  • Flexible kinematic controller for collision without physics.
  • Blit 3D models as sprites into 2D.
Create great-looking 3D games
  • Import 3D models from 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, and more with full animation.
  • Skeleton deforms and blend shapes.
  • Several light types, with shadow mapping.
  • Render with HDR, anti-aliasing, and linear color modes.
  • Post-process fog, glow, bloom, color adjustment, …
  • Support for Physically-Based Rendering planned for the end of 2016.
Most flexible animation system for games
  • Animate 2D or 3D. Visual animation editor with the timeline.
  • Frame-based or cut-out animation for sprites and rigs.
  • Any property of any object can be animated, even function calls.
  • Use custom transition curves and tweens.
  • Helpers to animate 2D rigs, with skeletons and IK.
  • Efficient optimizer to pack imported 3D animations.
  • Animation Tree support for fluid character animation.
Add behaviors to objects with a built-in scripting
  • A python-like scripting language, designed to make games with zero hassle.
  • Built-in editor with syntax highlighting, real-time parser, and code completion.
  • Powerful integrated debugger and profilers. It can debug a game running on mobile devices.
  • Integrated class documentation browser.
  • Friendly C++ API to optimize parts of the game or extend any part of the engine.
Deploy games everywhere!
  • Mobile platforms: iOS, Android, BlackBerry OS
  • Desktop platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, Haiku
  • Web Platforms: HTML5 (via Emscripten)
  • One-click deploy & export to most platforms. Easy to create custom builds too.
Requirements
  • Recommended: Vulkan 1.0 compatible hardware
  • Minimal: OpenGL 3.3 / OpenGL ES 3.0 compatible hardware
Additional requirements for the .NET version: .NET SDK

Alternatives

Unreal Engine - High-fidelity graphics, real-time 3D creation.

Unity - Powerful 3D and 2D gaming development software for Windows.

CryEngine - Advanced graphics and real-time rendering tools.

GameMaker Studio - Simple 2D development with drag-and-drop system.

Cocos Creator - Open-source framework focused on mobile games.

Construct 3 - Beginner-friendly drag-and-drop 2D game engine.

RPG Maker: Tailored for creating role-playing games, this software provides specialized tools and a simple interface for RPG development.

PROS
  • Open-Source and Free
  • Node-Based Architecture
  • Cross-Platform Export
  • Lightweight and Fast
  • Active Community Support
CONS
  • Limited 3D Features
  • Smaller Asset Marketplace
  • GDScript Learning Curve
  • Less Industry Adoption
  • Lacks Native Support for VR
Also Available: Godot Engine (32-bit) and Godot Engine for Mac

Why is this app published on FileHorse? (More info)
  • Godot Engine 4.7.2 (64-bit) Screenshots

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    Godot Engine 4.7.2 (64-bit) Screenshot 1
  • Godot Engine 4.7.2 (64-bit) Screenshot 2
  • Godot Engine 4.7.2 (64-bit) Screenshot 3

What's new in this version:

Changed:
- 3D: Fix 3D ruler tool tooltip
- Assetlib: Asset Store: Fix image width on different Editor Scales
- Core: Fix crash when failing to open log file for writing
- Core: Forbid negative weights in RandomPCG::rand_weighted
- Core: Make it impossible to have more than one main thread, and don’t release unnecessarily
- Core: Update DirAccess::create_temp to not fail on empty prefix parameter
- Editor: Don’t auto-translate favorite nodes
- Editor: Fix Visual Profiler cursor not appearing when graph is partially filled
- GDExtension: Fix register_extension_class never iterating parents for exposed checks
- GUI: Fix BaseButton input when enable_long_press_as_right_click is true
- Input: Fix performance issues when moving the mouse with high polling rate on Windows
- Input: Fix simultaneous shift release
- Input: Wayland: Fix IME popup position under fractional scaling on KDE Plasma
- Multiplayer: Fix peers stopping replication on deleting node they spawned with MultiplayerSpawner
- Navigation: Fix debug NavigationRegion3D colors not updating until project re-start
- Network: mbedTLS: Always use Godot’s OS as entropy source
- Platforms: Windows: Add exception handling to DispatcherQueueOptions init
- Rendering: Fix PCSS shadows using shadow range begin in the wrong space
- Thirdparty: Update AccessKit to 0.22.3