Best Free Game Engines

Free game engines - the most affordable way to make video games! In this video we will review the six best game engines that are completely free to use! These are great game engines for beginners and in have no licenses to buy, no subscriptions to pay for, no royalty fees, and you can use to them to make commercial games.

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[fathericonic]

imagine there being a game engine named corona

[daniel-zhnjyny]

Having to pay for Unity because you made over 100 000 $ in the previous fiscal year is a great problem to have :)

[raver]

Y'all forgetting the best program; scratch

[dante_ez]

im in 2020 and when he said corona i was scared

[maceater]

Wait, is one of the game engines called "Corona"?

[RealistikDash]

Wanna have your mind blown?



Cities skylines was made in unity by 2 programmers

[DoctorVirtual]

I can finally become an indie developer, thank you. This has been a magnificent help.

[jared]

Godot is my engine of choice after using both GameMaker Unity and Unreal for a variety of projects

[AskGamedev]

Which free game engine will you use to make your games? Let us know in the comments! Thanks for watching and supporting our channel!

[zlClutchy]

Def go with Godot, not only because it's free, but it is open-source and community funded. It is probably gonna become the linux of game engines.

[gauravghosh]

It's my first ever game video that I am watching on YouTube and it is so inspiring. Thank you so much. Hope to see a lot more from your side.

[znacha]

thanks for adding Godot!!!
Its my favourite game engine :)

[Chukkz]

The video is informative but the music is... repetitive. To say the least. And that comes from soneone who enjoys 8 and 16 bit game music normally. Why not switch it up a bit, i kind of felt like my ears were bleeding a bit after having watched it to the end.

[Spinnie]

I am learning Unreal right now. It's a difficult and overwelming engine but it really helps to have a big community. There are alot of tutorials out there that cover pretty much anything.

[emuliusv]

I am so glad for this video, I've been trying to find a game engine for absolutely ages now!

[fresch]

Cryengine is also free to some point. In the beginning it has a pay what you want model and then when you make somewhat good money they want some.

[guillaumefulconis]

Me learning that unreal, the engine that I use since one year to create my very first game, is not for beginners o_O

[VitaliiRedko]

With new Unreal Studio and Datasmith plugins Unreal Engine will be the most realistic engine in a few years. Because of cross industry specialists like architects and interior designers who now on their way to VR and etc. They will bring a new breath of realistic scale, space, materials in a new generation projects.

[Teh-Gaz]

I'm still doing research so I haven't decided what I'm going to use yet. What I want is to make visual novels with upwords of 500K words, 3D graphics, and 3D environments. I haven't found anything that does what I want yet. I'll likely end up having to roll my own solution so I'm looking at different frameworks right now to see what options are out there.