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UUnity logo

Unity

Freemium

Cross-platform 2D and 3D engine with a large asset ecosystem; C# scripting and an editor for desktop, mobile, web and XR.

UnityGame Engines
FreemiumView Tool

Epic's real-time 3D engine with full source access, C++ and Blueprint visual scripting, for high-fidelity games.

Unreal EngineGame Engines
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Godot Engine

★ 118.6k

Open-source 2D and 3D engine with its own editor, GDScript and C# support; no royalties or fees.

GodotGame Engines
AAseprite logo

Aseprite

★ 40.2k

Animated sprite editor and pixel-art tool with layers, frames, tags and sprite-sheet export.

Any engine2D Art & Tilemaps
TTiled logo

Tiled

★ 13.0k

Flexible tile-map level editor with exports for many engines and formats.

UnityGodotAny engine
Open sourceView Tool
BBlender logo

Blender

★ 21.0k

Free 3D suite for modelling, sculpting, rigging, animation and rendering; exports to all major engines.

UnityUnreal EngineGodot
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FMOD

Freemium

Adaptive audio middleware with the FMOD Studio authoring tool and an engine with integrations for many game engines.

UnityUnreal EngineGodot
FreemiumView Tool
SSpine logo

Spine

Paid

2D skeletal animation editor with runtimes for popular engines and frameworks.

UnityUnreal EngineGodot
MMirror logo

Mirror

★ 6.4k

Open-source networking library for Unity, derived from UNet.

UnityNetworking

Epic Games' official Claude Code plugin: drive Unreal Editor over MCP with hundreds of tools across 30+ toolsets (actors, Blueprints, materials, Niagara, Control Rigs, Sequencer).

Unreal EngineEngine Plugins & Integrations

Embeds an MCP server in Unreal Editor so MCP-compatible clients can drive the editor over local HTTP; toolsets come from the Toolset Registry and All Toolsets plugins.

Unreal EngineEngine Plugins & Integrations

Top tools by GitHub stars, among those with a commit in the 7 days before the 2026-10-18 snapshot. Stars, not ratings.

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    OllamaLocal LLM Runtimes★ 183.7k
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    Lllama.cpp logo
    llama.cppLocal LLM Runtimes★ 131.6k
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    GGodot Engine logo
    Godot EngineGame Engines★ 118.6k
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    Dear ImGuiCode & Libraries★ 76.7k
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    whisper.cppSpeech & Voice★ 54.5k

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OOllama logo

Ollama

★ 183.7k

Easiest local model server for prototyping, but a separate install the player must have.

Any engineLocal LLM Runtimes
Lllama.cpp logo

llama.cpp

★ 131.6k

The base runtime most Unity/Unreal/Godot LLM plugins wrap; very active. Start here if you want control.

Any engineLocal LLM Runtimes
PPlayCanvas logo

PlayCanvas

★ 17.1k

Web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF for browser games and 3D apps.

Other enginesGame Engines
SSDL logo

SDL

★ 16.8k

Cross-platform library for windowing, input, audio and graphics access.

Any engineCode & Libraries
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KoboldCpp

★ 12.0k

Great one-file local server for roleplay; AGPL is a concern for bundling.

Any engineLocal LLM Runtimes
AGPL-3.0View Tool
KKrita logo

Krita

★ 10.6k

Free digital painting application, widely used for concept art, textures and 2D assets.

Any engine2D Art & Tilemaps
GPL-3.0View Tool
DDefold logo

Defold

★ 6.4k

Lightweight engine for 2D and 3D games with Lua scripting, built for desktop, console, mobile and web builds.

Other enginesGame Engines
Open sourceView Tool
AArdour logo

Ardour

★ 5.4k

Digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing.

Any engineAudio
GPL-2.0View Tool

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