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Develop and publish your project on any modern desktop platform. Let everyone play your game by distributing to web and mobile. Make your game handle different forms of input and share the same project between each release.

Godot is free under the MIT license. This means you don’t owe us anything (other than a friendly mention), and can do whatever you want with your project or even the engine itself. Build your game or build your own engine on top of it – it’s all in your hands.

Godot 4 is the last stable version, but if you want to stick with the true and reliable Godot 3, download the long-term support version.

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Build your game from simple blocks

Use building blocks called nodes to create more complex and reusable scenes. Add scripts to your scenes and customize built-in behavior to implement your unique game mechanics. Rely on composition and node hierarchy to make game logic ready at a glance.

Expand beyond the features offered by the engine

Turn your scenes into fully-fledged components, with tools for your designers to tweak and adjust their appearance and function. Share your components with the community of like-minded developers as plugins and templates.

Create data-driven elements with custom resources

New in 4.0: Define scriptable objects called resources to describe characters, entities, and data structures in your game. Use your custom objects directly in the editor by assigning them to nodes. Resources come with a high-level API to store and read them, and they support all Godot types, including other resources.

Write code without obstacles using a high-level scripting language

Get things done quickly with Godot’s built-in scripting language GDScript. Inspired by Python and other languages, it’s easy to pick up even if you’re a beginner. Tight engine integration allows it to express game logic in a clear and natural form.

New in 4.0: GDScript offers optional static typing support, increasing coding efficiency and runtime performance. Powerful language features and premium features provide expressive yet concise code.

Leverage your C# experience to make yourself at home

If you are an experienced C# user, Godot offers you first class support for the .NET platform. Power your game with familiar libraries and give them a performance boost, while benefiting from tight engine integration.

Note: .NET support is provided as a dedicated executable engine. C# support is currently only available for desktop platforms in Godot 4. Use Godot 3 to run C# on Android, iOS, and the Web.

Choose from a variety of community supported languages

Godot is built to be extensible, and that means you can choose a programming language that is not provided by the Godot team itself. Thanks to our community, there are many language bindings for popular tools like Rust, Nim, Python, and JavaScript.

New in 4.0: C++ support officially arrives in the form of the GDExtension API, which gives you a way to script and program your game components for maximum performance without having to recompile the engine.

Modify the engine itself and integrate with third-party libraries

Thanks to the modular structure and a simple construction process of Godot, you can create your own engine modules. Get every last drop of performance or integrate with many third-party libraries using low-level C++ code.

Support both high-end and low-end devices

Create beautiful 3D games for a variety of devices, from desktop computers to mid-range Android phones. Powered by OpenGL, Godot allows your projects to run on most modern GPUs, including integrated graphics.

New in 4.0: With the new Vulkan rendering and a set of modern graphics features, you can bring your worlds to life and harness the power of gaming GPUs to your advantage.

Integrate seamlessly with asset pipeline

Bring your 3D models into your game world with a robust import pipeline. Take entire scenes—with animated models, lights, cameras, and physics objects—and customize how the engine sees them. Change your assets and see changes in the engine instantly.

New in 4.0: Import Blender files directly for quick iterations or continue to use familiar glTF and FBX formats.

Create animated videos and pre-rendered cinematics in the engine

New in 4.0: With the new filmmaker mode, you can record gameplay and scripted scenes from your project with a stable frame rate and guaranteed simulation speed. Along with Godot’s animation capabilities, make the most of the engine’s visuals.

Specialized 2D workflow for games and apps

Thanks to a dedicated 2D pipeline, you can forget about the Z axis and simplify your game logic. Think in pixels and screen coordinates, while the engine does the rest.

Save time creating 2D worlds with a tile map editor

Whether you want procedural generation or a painstakingly hand-crafted level, Godot’s built-in tile map editor lets you achieve any goal. Import a sprite and convert it into a database of building blocks for your 2D worlds.

Master ease of use with a flexible GUI system

Build scalable and adaptive user interfaces with Godot’s unique GUI system. Built specifically to run setups common to games, it is also capable of handling complex user interface applications and tools.

Test directly on the target device

New in 4.0: Replay on real hardware, or with an emulator by deploying your game directly to the target device over SSH. Run any project on a mobile device, on another desktop computer, or on your favorite Linux-based handheld with full debugging and inspection capabilities.

Partner with a publisher to target consoles

If you want to publish for a console, you can find several third-party publishers that specialize in that. Godot games can be run on any modern hardware, all you need to worry about is your performance and controls.

Find the logic behind any system in an open source codebase

You don’t have to wait for a support team to respond when you can read the source code. Godot is an open book and you can find out anything that is not yet documented after a single git checkout. If you find and fix a problem, we’d appreciate a PR upstream as well.

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• Recommended: Vulkan 1.0 compatible hardware
• Minimal: OpenGL 3.3 / OpenGL ES 3.0 compatible hardware
• Additional requirements for the .NET version: .NET SDK