Godot
Godot is a free, open-source game engine under the MIT licence. Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur wrote it as a closed in-house engine from 2001 and opened the code on GitHub in 2014; the Godot Foundation now looks after the project.
History
The engine began in 2001 under the code name Larvotor and went through several names over ten years before it became Godot. After the 2014 release it joined the Software Freedom Conservancy in November 2015. Godot 3.0 (2018) followed a major refactor, with C# scripting funded by a $24,000 donation from Microsoft in 2017. Epic Games awarded the project $250,000 in 2020 for rendering and GDScript work.
In August 2022 W4 Games was founded to sell commercial services around Godot, including console ports, and that November the project announced plans for a Godot Foundation. Godot 4.0 (2023) added Vulkan support; when Unity announced its install fee later that year, some developers switched to Godot.
Games made with Godot
9 games, oldest first. Each game links to the article that names its engine.
| Game | Year | Developer | Engine version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cruelty Squad | 2021 | Consumer Softproducts | Godot |
| Dome Keeper | 2022 | Bippinbits | Godot Engine |
| Brotato | 2023 | Thomas Gervraud, Evil Empire | Godot |
| Buckshot Roulette | 2023 | Mike Klubnika | Godot |
| Cassette Beasts | 2023 | Bytten Studio | Godot |
| Halls of Torment | 2024 | Chasing Carrots | Godot |
| Until Then | 2024 | Polychroma Games | Godot |
| Road to Vostok | 2026 | Road to Vostok | Godot |
| Slay the Spire 2 | 2026 | Mega Crit | Godot |
At a glance
- Developers
- Juan Linietsky, Ariel Manzur and contributors
- Open source since
- 2014
- Current version
- Godot 4.7.2 (2026)
- Licence
- MIT, open source
- Status
- Active
Sources
Checked .
- Godot (game engine) — Wikipedia
- License – Godot Engine — Godot
- Releases · godotengine/godot — GitHub
Image credits
- Godot logo — Andrea Calabró. CC BY 4.0. Cropped to the symbol, placed on a white square and converted to WebP
