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 everything 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.

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.

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.

The most flexible animation system.

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# 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, whithout leaving the editor.

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

Create games on any desktop OS.

Works on Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Haiku.. The editor runs in 32-bit and 64-bit, in all platforms.
Small download (around 20 MB), and you are ready to go.
Very easy to compile in any platform (no dependency hell).

Deploy games everywhere!

Mobile platforms: iOS, Android
Desktop platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, UWP, *BSD, Haiku
Export to the web using HTML and Web Assembly
One-click deploy & export to most platforms. Easy to create custom builds too.

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.