Godot Engine

Features

Innovative design

Create games with ease using Godot's unique approach to game development.

• Nodes for all your needs. Godot comes with hundreds of built-in nodes that make game design a breeze. You can also create your own for custom behaviors, editors and much more.
• Flexible scene system. Create node compositions with support for instancing and inheritance.
• Visual editor with all the tools you need packed into a beautiful and uncluttered context-sensitive UI.
• Friendly content creation pipeline for artists, level designers, animators and everyone in between.
• Persistent live editing where changes are not lost after stopping the game. It even works on mobile devices!
• Create your own custom tools with ease using the incredible tool system.

Gorgeous 3D graphics

The brand new physically-based renderer comes with a ton of features that will make your games look incredible.

• Innovative architecture that combines the best of forward rendering with the efficiency of deferred rendering.
• Physically-based rendering with full MSAA support.
• Full principled BSDF with subsurface scattering, reflection, refraction, anisotropy, clearcoat, transmittance and more.
• Global illumination for real-time gorgeous graphics. It can also be pre-baked for beautiful results even on low-end devices.
• Mid- and Post-processing effects including a new tonemapper that supports HDR, multiple standard curves and auto exposure, screen-space reflections, fog, bloom, depth of field and much more.
• Easy-to-use shader language based on GLSL, with built-in editor and code completion.

Create 2D games with ease

• Godot comes with a fully-dedicated 2D engine packed with features.
• Work in pixels as your units, but scale to any screen size and aspect ratio.
• Tile map editor with auto-tiling, rotation, custom grid shapes and multiple layers.
• 2D lights and normal maps to give your 2D games a more realistic look.
• Animate your games using cut-out or sprite-based animation.
• Flexible kinematic controller for collision without physics.

Animate everything

• The most flexible animation system.Animate literally everything, from bones and objects to function calls.
• Use custom transition curves and tweens to create incredible animations.
• Helpers to animate 2D rigs, with skeletons and IK.
• Efficient optimizer to pack imported 3D animations.

Script with full freedom

More choices than any other engine.

• GDScript Python-like scripting language, designed to make games with zero hassle.
• Full C# 7.0 support using Mono.
• Full C++ support without needing to recompile the engine.
• Visual scripting using blocks and connections.
• Additional languages with community-provided support for Python, Nim, D and other languages.
• Built-in editor with syntax highlighting, real-time parser and code completion.
• Integrated documentation. Browse and search the whole API offline, without leaving the editor.

Debug & optimize

Solve bugs and performance bottlenecks with the built-in debugger.

• Explore and modify your project while it's running, even on mobile devices.
• Keeps changes by default after closing the project.
• Built-in profiler with graph plotting and time seeking.
• Video memory debugger.
• Error logger with full stack traces.

Multi-platform editor

Create games on any desktop OS.

• Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Haiku. The editor runs in 32-bit and 64-bit on all platforms.
• Small download (around 25 MB), and you are ready to go.
• Very easy to compile on any platform (no dependency hell).

Multi-platform deploy

Deploy games everywhere!

• Mobile platforms: iOS, Android
• Desktop platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, UWP, *BSD, Haiku
• Export to the web using HTML5 and WebAssembly.
• One-click deploy & export to most platforms. Easily create custom builds as well.

Easy teamwork

Godot is designed from the ground up for smooth teamwork.

• Friendly filesystem usage that works great with version control systems like Git, Subversion, Mercurial, PlasticSCM, Perforce, you name it.
• Scene instancing makes teamwork a breeze. Every team member can focus on their own scene, be it a character, level, etc., and edit without stepping on each other's toes.
• Text-based descriptive and optimal scene format.
• Script syntax supported by GitHub.