Today we have compiled a list of the best Lua game engines and game frameworks (and a few miscellaneous game development options) for game development in 2025. This is the third in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages. We have

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Today we are checking out LÖVR, a free and open source 3D Lua game and VR development framework heavily inspired by LÖVE. LÖVE is a popular 2D game development framework, recently made famous for powering the smash indie hit Belatro. LÖVR takes the ease of use of LÖVE and brings

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Last year the breakout indie smash hit was Vampire Survivor, which was created using the Phaser HTML5 framework. So far in 2024 the indie smash breakout hit appears to be Balatro, a roguelike deck builder based on poker. Once again this hit game wasn’t created using one of the most

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Ultra Engine, a new game engine from the creators of the Leadwerks game engine and the Ultra App Kit UI library was just released in early access. The engine is making some pretty big performance claims, specifically 10x the performance of Unity! There are two versions of this engine, the

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The Harfang 3D engine is an open source graphics engine for creating games, applications and VR apps for Windows and Linux. The core framework is available under multiple open source licenses including GPLv3, LGPL as well as a paid commercial license. In addition to the core framework, there is also

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The free 2D game engine Defold (tutorial series available here) just announced the addition of PlayStation 4 to their supported development platforms. This announcement follows a few years after they added support for the Nintendo Switch platform and they have announced the addition of PlayStation 5 support later this year

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Wicked Engine is a powerful open source C++ based game engine (we recently showcased for more detailed information) that was just released on Steam. This makes it much easier for developers to evaluate the engine with no need to build from source code, nor deal with the C++ programming language.

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Roblox is one of the most successful games of all time and a key part of that success is enabling their users to create their own worlds. When Roblox was started back in 2006, the programming language end users (and Roblox themselves) used was Lua. Over time, Roblox have made

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One of the strengths of the open source Godot Game Engine, is the ability to develop in different programming languages, including the popular Lua scripting language. In the past we looked at the programming language options when working with Godot and today we are going to be looking at a

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LÖVR is an open source 3D framework that specializes in easily creating VR applications using the Lua programming language and the high performance luaJIT compiler. It is heavily inspired by LÖVE, an open source 2D game framework (complete tutorial series including Lua tutorial available here) and takes a very similar

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