Lua Game Engines in 2025

Today we have compiled a list of the best Lua game engines and game frameworks (and a few miscellaneous game development options) for game development in 2025. This is the third in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages. We have a Python Game Engine resource here and a C/C++ Game Engine resource here, with guides for other programming languages in the works.

2D

LÖVE – https://love2d.org/

Defold – https://defold.com/

Solar2D – https://solar2d.com/

Gideros – https://www.gideros.rocks/

2D Bindings

Raylib – https://www.raylib.com/

SDL 2 – https://www.libsdl.org/languages-2.0.php

Allegro – https://liballeg.org/bindings.html

3D

LÖVR – https://lovr.org/

Menori – https://github.com/rozenmad/Menori

O3DE – https://o3de.org/

Wicked Engine – https://wickedengine.net/

Spring Engine – https://springrts.com/

GameGuru / GameGuru MAX – https://www.game-guru.com/

Overlord Engine – https://overloadengine.org/

Leadwerks – https://www.leadwerks.com/

Launti (Previously Minetest) – https://www.luanti.org/

Misc

Roblox – https://create.roblox.com/

Core – https://www.coregames.com/create

Pico-8 – https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

Codea – https://codea.io/

You can learn more about all of the above Lua based game engines, frameworks and bindings in the video below.

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