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 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 and FXAA 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 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 detection 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. Learn why our community loves it.
- Full C# 8.0 support using Mono.
- Full C++ support without needing to recompile the engine using GDNative.
- Visual scripting using blocks and connections.
- Additional languages with community-provided support for Rust, 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.
- Network profiler with per-node remote call tracking and bandwidth usage estimation.
Multi-platform editor
Create games on any desktop OS and Android.- Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSD and Android (experimental).
The editor runs in 32-bit and 64-bit on all platforms, with native Apple Silicon support. - Small download (around 35 MB), and you are ready to go.
- Easy to compile on any platform (no dependency hell).
Multi-platform deploy
Deploy games everywhere!- Export to desktop platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, UWP, and *BSD.
- Export to mobile platforms: iOS and Android.
- Consoles: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One via third-party providers (read more).
- Export to the web using HTML5 and WebAssembly.
- One-click deploy & export to most platforms. Easily create custom builds as well.
XR support
Godot makes cross-platform Augmented and Virtual Reality development easy.
- Works with many headsets including the Meta Quest, Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, all Microsoft MR headsets, and many more.
- Support for OpenXR, an emerging open standard that most hardware vendors are moving to.
- Plugins give access to various proprietary SDKs, such as OpenVR (SteamVR) and the legacy Oculus SDKs.
- WebXR can deliver AR/VR experiences via a web browser.
- ARKit allows creating AR apps for iOS.
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, 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.