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Godot Engine
Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that you can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
41 of the 110 reviews raise this.
“this engine has caused me nothing but countless sleepless nights and constant agony 10/10”
“GAY Godot isn't just for prototyping. It works great for large projects. switched from gms2 and Godot is so much better.”
“Amazing for making games. The community is amazing. All its flaws are being worked on (as far as I know) Also I know it says I only have 82 minutes on Godot (as of writing this), but that doesn't count the time that I…”
29 of the 110 reviews raise this.
“I recommend this software because it's pretty easy to learn and it's beginner friendly(I'm a beginner game dev), the ui is relatively simple and it's nice to use, plus it runs on my horrible pc!”
“Good engine, recommeded for people that want to get into game development.”
“Huge respect to the Godot Engine team and the open source community. The level of care, transparency, and constant improvement is inspiring. It’s amazing to see a powerful, accessible game engine built by people who…”
17 of the 110 reviews raise this.
“I recommend this software because it's pretty easy to learn and it's beginner friendly(I'm a beginner game dev), the ui is relatively simple and it's nice to use, plus it runs on my horrible pc!”
“I have tried Unity, Unreal and Godot was the last engine that I will keep on using for now. Comparing to other engines, working with Godot seems a lot faster and you can get things done much faster. As an indie…”
“Its free, performant and open source. What else do you need?”
16 of the 110 reviews raise this.
“GAY Godot isn't just for prototyping. It works great for large projects. switched from gms2 and Godot is so much better.”
“I have tried Unity, Unreal and Godot was the last engine that I will keep on using for now. Comparing to other engines, working with Godot seems a lot faster and you can get things done much faster. As an indie…”
“Its free, performant and open source. What else do you need?”
14 of the 110 reviews raise this.
“Amazing for making games. The community is amazing. All its flaws are being worked on (as far as I know) Also I know it says I only have 82 minutes on Godot (as of writing this), but that doesn't count the time that I…”
“Huge respect to the Godot Engine team and the open source community. The level of care, transparency, and constant improvement is inspiring. It’s amazing to see a powerful, accessible game engine built by people who…”
“Great for rapid game development. The lightweight design means it loads fast and runs smooth, and the node-based system is intuitive once you learn the basics. I've been using it more and more for my projects. An…”
11 of the 110 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“don't recommend it for beginner use”
“very good engine, be wary it has a vertically difficulty curve when starting out. also if your computer doesnt have or has a very clunky vulkan layer youre forced to use compatibility renderer”
“this game is harder than elden ring all ive done is look up tutorials and i still cant even finish the first boss fight”
6 of the 110 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Obviously good and better then "I love late stage capitalism" Unity, but they don't have the .NET framework for C# and the like in this version which is annoying asf”
“really hope this becomes the blender of game engines, though i dont use the steam version anymore as it doesnt have the .NET/Mono version”
“very good engine, i hope the animation system improves so it can be easy to layer animations automatically”
5 of the 110 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“sometimes crashing when i save, and now ive lost 5 hours worth of coding and hard work”
“very good engine, be wary it has a vertically difficulty curve when starting out. also if your computer doesnt have or has a very clunky vulkan layer youre forced to use compatibility renderer”
“If you download a project it dosent load it fully”
3 of the 110 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Definitely the most comfortable game engine for me to work with. Very fast iteration speed, intuitive scene organization, good addon ecosystem. There's some annoyances with trying to do some advanced, high performance…”
“Get godot Try making overly ambitious game Give up ??? Cry”
Note: these 110 reviews lean more negative than the game overall — 85% of them recommend it, against 95.7% across all 9,592 reviews.
Counted across 110 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 95.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“The best game engine there is if you don't want to write your own. Lightweight, easy to use, coding shaders is easy, and a 2d KING. Weather you want to make a voxel game, 2d, or 3d game Godot is your friend.”
— a player, Steam review · 132 hrs played“one of the best game engines ive ever used, much easier to learn than unity (and personally i think it looks better out of the box) and is as easy to learn as roblox. funnily enough, me and my developers moved from roblox to godot and have found godot to be basically what we've…”
— a player, Steam review · 443 hrs played“Difficult to learn but fun and rewarding when you get it.”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Maintenance release: Godot 4.7.2
Has it already been a whole month since the last 4.7 maintenance release ? How time flies… Well, no time to dwell on the past; let's instead dwell on the past with yet another maintenance release: God
Maintenance release: Godot 4.7.1
It's been nearly four weeks since we saw the release of Godot 4.7 , which has given our team ample time to prepare for its first maintenance release. This progress was made in tandem with Godot 4.8, w
Godot 4.7 – Lights, Camera, Action!
Like a cult classic movie, Godot 4 has only gotten better with age. The first few releases focused on stability, granting the engine a rock-solid foundation that could be safely and easily iterated up
Maintenance release: Godot 4.6.3
Progress on Godot 4.7 has continued without a hitch, but the need for more 4.6 maintenance releases remains ever-present. Our commitment to active support brings us to today’s release of Godot 4.6.3.M
Maintenance release: Godot 4.6.2
After a first hotfix to the recent 4.6 release, we now have a second maintenance release in the form of Godot 4.6.2, adding a number of important bug fixes and improvements to the stable branch.Mainte
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Game Development |
| Player tags | Game Development · Utilities · Software · 3D · 2D · Free to Play · Programming (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Partial Controller Support · Includes level editor |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Greek, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Ja… |
| Official site | https://godotengine.org |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: x86_64 CPU with SSE4.2, or x86_32 CPU with SSE2 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Support for OpenGL 3.3 Storage: 2 GB available space