PAID 3D GAME ENGINES

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Cheap

These are game engines that any Indie can afford (usually less than $1.000), they are usually just enough to make a good looking game, and in general you will have to buy add-ons to have advanced features.

GarageGames Torque Game Engine - Comes in two version Indie and Commercial, it features a powerful game engine tested in commercial games like Tribes2.($100 - $500)

GarageGames Torque Game Engine Advanced - Also comes in two version Indie and Commercial, it features a more powerful and flexible graphical engine than the predecessor.($295 - $1500)

FPS Creator - A ready to build RAD solution to creating your own FPS game, you can use pre-built components (prefabs) or you can also add your own. no programming required.($50)

The 3D Gamemaker - A limited solution to creating your game from pre-built components, no programming required.($35)

Dark Basic Professional - a game programming specific language that is very similar to Basic, easy to learn and a cheap way to get a game done. ($90)

Dark Game SDK - Dark Game SDK, use C++ to do the same you do with Dark Basic Professional, using the SDK improves performance.($60)

Cypher Game Engine - a ($100) solution to building multiple game genres but with a descendance on FPS games like quake, includes tools. (engine has not been updated since 2004 and original author no longer supports project).

3Impact Game Engine - A physics, rendering, network game engine that uses a integrated IDE and has great import facilities, for ($99).

3DRad - RAD tools to make a game, there are 4 version with prices (Lite $19, Standard $49, Network $79)

C4 Engine - A multi-platform (Win and MAC $100) up to date game engine, that includes a world editor and Graphical script editor.

Beyond Virtual - Available in two edition (Free and $150) this is a game engine that features the latest features in Graphics rendering and was designed specifically for large urban environments & Massively Multiplayer (MMO) style games.

Sylphis3D - Fully featured 3D game engine for ($99)

3D GameStudio - 3D Gamestudio is an all in one solution featuring a up to date engine and many editor tools, it comes in 4 versions ranging from ($50 to $900)

DX Studio - DX Studio is a complete integrated development environment for creating interactive 3D graphics. Three versions are available (Freeware, Standard $330, Pro $690)

S2Engine from Profenix - S2Engine is a complete kit for developing games and Virtual Reality environments, tools included; base solution ($630) updates are paid apart.

Value

These are game engines that a small company or a group of friend can purchase together, usually they cost more than $1.000 but include almost everything you will ever need to build a very good looking up to date graphics game.

Unity for MacOS - It's a fully integrated game editor, simply click preview and you can preview your game at any time, brings the Mac simplicity to game creation. two versions are available (Indie $250, Professional $1.500)

Unigine - Unigine is a cross-platform library for virtual worlds creation, Three versions are available (Eval $95, Binary $1985, Source $4985)

PowerRender - Power Render 6 is a general purpose 3D application and game software development kit, several versions are available from (Indie $150 - Commercial $2.500 - Source $5.500)

Virtools - A really quick way to get things up and running in 3D, using a schematic language. ($8.000-$10.000)

Vision Game Engine - German-based game engine for Windows, XBox, XBox360 and PS3.

Quest3D - A fast visualization 3D toolkit that uses a graphical language to create games.( similar to Virtools, but with the ability to edit models and objects inside the tool environment), 3 versions are available that range from ($1.000-$10.000)

Right Hemisphere Deep Creator - Use a visual editor to add models and add interactivity, along with a scripting language for interactivity.($2.000)

Law Maker by Darkroom Studios - is a full-feature commercial game engine that is built to provide game developers with a fully mature game development suite that rivals that of other commercial game engines (Source, Unreal, FarCry and Doom3), for just a fraction of the cost (for non-commercial $299, single Indie commercial license $1499.99 further features are available with NDA).

AgentFX by Agency9 - It's an advanced game system powered by a Java 3D engine, Platform-independent, supports an extensive list of up-to-date graphic features, there's three version (Non-Commercial Free, Education $390, and Commercial from $3.000 to $11.000(full source)).

Premium

These are game engines that only big studios can afford, they usually cost more than $25.000, usually include exclusive technology and optimizations, this is the state of the art, sometimes game studios prefer to focus on content and game play than on the technology, or creating a engine that is a process that might take years. Most of these Engines are available at custom pricing ranges and are usually covered with NDA, so this section has no price indication.

Unreal Engine Technology - A top of the line commercial game engine used by many top selling commercial games, like Unreal Tournament, Splinter Cell, etc...

id Software game engines - id Software has cutting edge engines, both commercial and open source, it is behind many commercial successes, like doom, Quake, etc....

Valve Source - The powerful game engine used in the Half-Life 2 game.

Crytek - CryEngine used in the popular Far Cry game

Emergent Gamebryo - Emergent merged with NDL to create a very flexible company that provides many commercial studios with game tools including the Gamebryo engine, used in games like Sid Meier’s Civilization IV and Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, etc...

RenderWare - Fully featured game Studio, and platform that allows to create games in several platforms using the same tools, used in games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Mortal Kombat Deception, Call of Duty: Finest Hour, etc...

Instint Studio - Instinct Studio is a software suite that combines a complete set of game development tools with an array of 'best in class' middleware plug-ins, giving game developers the power and flexibility to create state-of-the-art productions within realistic budgets.

Jupiter and Jupiter EX from Touchdown Entertainment - Jupiter and Jupiter EX (DirectX 9 version) are full featured game creation solutions.

Codecreatures SDK & GDE from CodeCult - Codecreatures is an advanced game development system for 3D computer games, consisting of a modern, modular and portable software development kit (SDK) and a network compatible, integrated multi-user game development environment (GDE).

Vicious Engine - The Vicious Engine is a comprehensive middleware solution that will give developers the power to make exciting, dynamic games without the costly steps of creating an engine and tool set.

Serious Engine 1 & 2 - The engine behind Serious Sam games, is available for licensing.

Trinigy Vision - Vision is a fully featured solution for all game genres and also for the Serious Games market (military and civilian), with defined workflow paths. License models for both value game titles as well as for full-price/AAA titles are available, prices are under NDA .

MMOG Specialized

BigWorld Technology - BigWorld MMO Technology Suite is a complete technology solution, consisting of a tightly integrated suite of high performance server applications, tools, advanced 3D client and APIs designed specifically for the fast and efficient creation of MMOGs, used in games like Dark and Light (DnL), Tian Xia 2, Stargate Worlds, etc...

Chaos Engine - The Chaos Engine is a modern Game Creation Toolkit and Rendering System specifically designed for Massive Multiplayer Online Games creation, testing and running. The platform tools allow you to quickly create and test all game necessary assets while the runtime system is carefully optimized for large world area rendering, massive number of playable and artificial intelligent characters and large data sets seamless loading.

TitanAT engine - The TitanAT engine has been specifically developed to be a robust and complete game development system for Massively Multiplayer Online Games.

Multiverse - (beta) Multiverse, Make a complete Massively Multiplayer Online Game, features a special licensing model, the tools are free but you have to give them 50%-70% of your profits (if you make no money they make no money).

Nevrax Library NeL - NeL is a toolkit for the development of massively online universes. It provides the base technologies and a set of development methodologies for the development of both client and server code. Used for The Saga Of Ryzom MMORPG (Dual Licensed as GPL and Comercial Closed Source $150.000-$500.000)