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Stride

Stride (formerly known as Xenko) is a free and open-source C# game engine. It is growing quickly and is supporting multiple platforms, with more to come.

News can be found here.

SpecsUpdate

Dev platformsWindows

Desktop targetsWindows, OSX, Linux

Mobile targetsWindows Phone, iOS, Android

Supported languagesC#

LicenseMIT

LanguagesC#

APIVulkan, DirectX 11, DirectX 12, OpenGL

3DYes

2DYes

OpensourceYes

VR SupportYes

Pros

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Supports Vulkan

Currently the only well known open-source game engine that supports Vulkan, and probably one of the only.

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Engine AND Scripting are both C#

Since the engine is written in the same language as the scripting, there is no weird mix of technologies as other engines have.

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Community seems friendly and is growing

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Very modern render engine

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No royalties or licensing fees

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Good looking and fast

Looking nearly as good as Unreal Engine 4, but rendering significantly faster.

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Powerful 3D Rendering Engine

Supports Vulkan. You can achieve good quality as in Unity3d and Unreal Engine

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Straightforward editor

Paradox provides a simple and clean working environment for designing games.

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Supports Visual Studio

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Projects are normal Visual Studio solutions

No proprietary project format, so it works with all the official .NET tooling.

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Easy to learn and use C#

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Multiple Starter Templates

The engine comes packed with multiole example projects to help you get started.

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Cons

Con
Editor is Windows only

Since version 1.7, Linux can be targeted for runtime. The editor for the engine is available only to Windows though.

Con
Small user community

Unity and UE have a vast amount of user community.

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Recommendations

EfficientFecunditas

Contributor for 3 years

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Recommended 3 years ago

Good looking and fast

No royalties or licensing fees

Very modern render engine

Community seems friendly and is growing

Engine AND Scripting are both C#

Supports Vulkan

Editor is Windows only

Powerful 3D Rendering Engine

PassionateTemazcalteci

Contributor for 4 years

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Recommended 4 years ago

PassionateTemazcalteci hasn’t added their experience, pros or cons to their recommendation.

SociableProserpina

Contributor for 4 years

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Recommended 4 years ago

SociableProserpina hasn’t added their experience, pros or cons to their recommendation.

Contributor for 4 years

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50

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Recommended 4 years ago

Straightforward editor

Good looking and fast

No royalties or licensing fees

Very modern render engine

Community seems friendly and is growing

Supports Visual Studio

Engine AND Scripting are both C#

Easy to learn and use C#

Supports Vulkan

Projects are normal Visual Studio solutions

Multiple Starter Templates

Powerful 3D Rendering Engine

Contributor for 6 years

17

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1.8K

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Karma

Recommended 4 years ago

Straightforward editor

Good looking and fast

No royalties or licensing fees

Very modern render engine

Community seems friendly and is growing

Supports Visual Studio

Engine AND Scripting are both C#

Easy to learn and use C#

Supports Vulkan

Projects are normal Visual Studio solutions

Editor is Windows only

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