by GDevelop Ltd

GDevelop review, pricing and verdict

Open-source no-code game engine for 2D and 3D games with a built-in AI agent that adds features from a prompt; 28,891 GitHub stars.

Best for
Beginner game makers
Not for
People who only want a game from one prompt

By , Founder and editor

Should you use GDevelop?

A strong pick for a beginner who wants a real engine without writing code: the editor is free forever and games can be sold on any plan. The catch is the AI allowance, 40 credits a month on the free plan, so prompted building means learning the events or paying from Silver up.

An AI agent that edits a real, exportable engine project through visible events, so a beginner can see and change what it built.

An open-source engine with a community, asset store and publishing service around it keeps people learning on it, though the MIT licence means nothing stops a project leaving.

Also for

  • Teachers
  • Indie hobbyists
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  • Beginners who want to learn how their game works
  • Teachers and students in game-design classes
  • Hobbyists releasing a 2D game on Steam, itch.io or mobile
  • Game-jam teams who need multiplayer without a server

Also not for

  • Teams building large 3D titles

Main trade-off

The free AI allowance is small, so most prompted building needs a paid membership.

GDevelop pricing

PlanMonthly priceWhat it includes
FreeFreeFull open-source (MIT) editor and engine, 40 AI credits a month, 3 cloud projects, Unlimited gd.games publishing; 1 desktop and 1 Android build a day, GDevelop logo stays on exports
Silver$6.49/mo200 AI credits a week plus 100 credits a month, 50 cloud projects, 10 desktop and 10 Android builds a day, Logo removed, GDevelop Essentials Course
Gold$10.99/mo1,000 AI credits a week plus 300 credits a month, 100 cloud projects, 15 iOS builds a month, Unlimited leaderboards, 1 premium asset pack and 1 template a month
Pro$32.99/mo3,000 AI credits a week plus 1,000 credits a month, Unlimited cloud projects and builds, 30 iOS builds a month, Collaborators and full version history, Professional support channel

The engine is free and open source. Paid memberships (Silver, Gold, Pro) mainly buy AI credits, more cloud projects and publishing quotas, from $6.49 a month; paying yearly saves up to 40 percent. A company earning over $50,000 a year must use Pro.

Before you commit

  • Marketing boosts on gd.games and through ad networks are paid in credits, starting at 500 and 1,000 credits

What GDevelop does

GDevelop is a free, open-source no-code game engine for 2D and low-poly 3D games. Its AI agent reads your project and adds objects, behaviours and visual events from a prompt, and games export to the web, desktop, Android and iOS. Version 5.6.287 shipped on 4 November 2026.

  • AI agent (Build for me)

    Reads your open project, plans the change, then adds objects, behaviours and events step by step while you watch, with a pause button to stop and inspect.

  • Visual event system

    Game logic is built from readable condition-and-action events instead of code, with a JavaScript API for people who want to extend it.

  • 2D and low-poly 3D

    A real-time 3D scene editor, 2D and 3D physics, dynamic lights with shadows, particles and pathfinding sit alongside the 2D tools.

  • One-click publishing

    Exports to gd.games, the web, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, with Steamworks achievements and cloud saves.

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  • Built-in multiplayer and leaderboards

    Real-time multiplayer lobbies, player login and leaderboards work without setting up a server.

  • Asset Store and templates

    Thousands of free asset packs, plus premium packs and game templates, are browsable from inside the editor.

Works with

  • Steamworks
  • Google AdMob
  • gd.games
  • GitHub

Capabilities

  • Game engine
  • No code
  • Open source
  • AI agent
  • Multiplayer

Strengths and limits

Strengths

  • Selling is allowed on every plan, free included: the pricing table ticks Steam and app-store sales and AdMob ads for all four plans.
  • The pricing page lists the editor and engine as MIT-licensed open source, and the full source is public on GitHub, so a project file is not tied to a paid plan.
  • Its Education plan gives students fully anonymous accounts and keeps AI tools off until a teacher switches them on.

Limits

  • The free plan keeps the GDevelop logo on exported games and gives 40 AI credits a month, against 200 a week on the cheapest paid plan.
  • GDevelop's own guide to the agent warns that broad requests such as a whole RPG system are too much for it, and that community extensions may not always work with it.
  • iOS publishing is missing from the free and Silver plans; it starts at Gold with 15 App Store builds a month.

How Hokai rates it

  • Ease of use7.0 / 10
  • Features8.5 / 10
  • Value for money8.5 / 10
  • Support7.5 / 10

GDevelop alternatives

ToolPrice fromFree planRuns onRating
GDevelop This page$6.49/moYesWeb · iOS · Android · Mac · Windows3.9
Rosebud AIPick GDevelop if you want an open-source engine you can sell from on the free plan; pick Rosebud AI if you want a whole game from a chat with nothing to learn.$15/moYesWeb3.4
Summer EnginePick GDevelop if you want to see and edit every rule yourself for free; pick Summer Engine if you want an agent to build 3D or multiplayer for Steam.$20/moYesMac · Windows3.4
10WebAI builder that turns a prompt, old site or design file into a hosted website, store or web app on a WordPress backend, with 2M+ projects built so far.$10/moNoWeb · Mac · Windows4.6

GDevelop facts

Training-data policy
The privacy policy says GDevelop's AI tools are powered by third-party AI providers whose own privacy policies and terms apply to that use.
Compliance
gdpr
Minimum skill level
Basic
Price band
Budget

Data and privacy

MIT (editor and engine)

Questions about GDevelop

How much does GDevelop cost per month?

Free costs nothing, Silver is $6.49, Gold $10.99 and Pro $32.99 a month in US dollars, with up to 40 percent off when paid yearly. The main thing the paid plans buy is AI credits: 200, 1,000 and 3,000 a week. A company with more than $50,000 a year in revenue has to be on Pro.

What can you do on GDevelop's free plan?

Everything in the engine: the free plan includes the full open-source editor, unlimited publishing to gd.games, one desktop and one Android build a day, and the right to sell the game. The limits are 40 AI credits a month, three cloud projects, no iOS builds and the GDevelop logo on exports.

Can GDevelop's AI make a whole game for me?

Not reliably in one go. GDevelop's guide to its agent says it is not an instant make-my-whole-game button and works best on one system at a time, such as a coin pickup, an enemy that patrols or a main menu. Each request spends credits, so a long build moves quickly past the free allowance.

Can I sell a game made on the free plan?

Yes. The plan comparison ticks selling on Steam and app stores, AdMob ads and in-app purchases for every plan, Free included. The free plan's exports keep the GDevelop logo and it cannot build for iOS, so a polished App Store release needs Gold.

Can you make 3D games in GDevelop?

Yes. The features page lists a real-time 3D scene editor, 3D physics, lights with shadows and full 3D support. It pitches that 3D at stylised low-poly games, not photorealism, and the community games on gd.games follow that look.

About GDevelop

GDevelop is a free, open-source game engine built so that people who do not code can still make real games. Logic is written as visual events ("when this happens, do that") instead of scripts, and an AI agent can now add those events for you. The editor and engine are MIT-licensed, the project's GitHub repository dates to 2014 and had 28,891 stars when we checked on 15 November 2026, and the company behind it, GDevelop Ltd, shipped version 5.6.287 on 4 November 2026.

Read the full background

The AI sits in an Ask AI panel. Its Build for me mode reads your project, plans a change, then creates objects, behaviours and events in front of you, which you can pause and inspect; a chat mode answers questions instead. The engine itself does 2D and low-poly 3D, with physics, lights, particles, pathfinding, built-in multiplayer lobbies and leaderboards, and Steamworks and AdMob support. Finished games can go to the browser, desktop computers and both phone stores. On 15 November 2026 we opened gd.games as a guest and launched Powerline Guardians, a community multiplayer shooter made for the GD Big Jam: it loaded a low-poly 3D title screen in the browser, with an advert panel beside the game.

It suits beginners who want to understand how their game works rather than only prompt it, students and teachers (an Education plan gives students anonymous accounts), and hobbyists aiming for an itch.io, Steam or mobile release of a 2D platformer, arcade or puzzle game.

It asks more of you than a pure prompt-to-game site. You still learn the event system, and GDevelop's own guide to its agent calls it a creative assistant rather than an instant whole-game button. Someone who only wants a game to share by link tonight will get there faster with Rosebud AI or the phone-first Astrocade, and someone who wants an agent to build a 3D or multiplayer game for Steam should compare Summer Engine, and a group that wants to build 3D worlds together in a browser tab can try Nilo. Someone ready to write code should look at the engine-plus-AI-assistant routes in our Godot guide and Unity guide, where a coding agent such as Claude Code does the typing. For 3D characters and props to import, a model generator like Meshy fills the gap GDevelop's AI does not cover.

Sources and guides

Official sources

Product facts on this page (pricing, plans, integrations, compliance) are read from GDevelop Ltd's own pages and documentation. The verdict is Hokai's reading of them, not the vendor's claim.

Hokai guides covering GDevelop

Lists that include GDevelop

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