Today we have compiled a list of the best Python game engines, frameworks and language bindings for game development in 2025. This is the first in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages. We will eventually have similar guides for C#, C++, JavaScript and other languages linked here.
2D
Pygame – https://www.pygame.org/news
Pygame CE – https://github.com/pygame-community/pygame-ce
Ren’Py – https://www.renpy.org
Python Arcade – https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/#
Pyglet – https://pyglet.org
Kivy – https://kivy.org
3D
UPBGE – https://upbge.org/#/
Ursina Engine – https://www.ursinaengine.org
Cave Engine – https://unidaystudio.itch.io/cave-engine
Bindings
PyOgre – https://wiki.ogre3d.org/PyOgre
PySFML2 – https://pysfml2-cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
PySDL2 – https://pypi.org/project/PySDL2/
Allegro – https://liballeg.org/bindings.html
Raylib – https://electronstudio.github.io/raylib-python-cffi/
PyOpenGL – https://pyopengl.sourceforge.net
You can learn more about all of the above Python based game engines, frameworks and bindings in the video below.