Game engines

Main article: Game engine recreations and source ports

This is a list of known game engines

Before Diving in

ScummVM does get referenced on this page because it's the main active engine recreation project (there's almost no other project like it)
This page is not limited to the ScummVM project, while they have allowed some non-adventure games to be added like RPGs & strategy games, other projects are needed for engines they most likely won't accept.
Engines with historical significance are highlighted in yellow.

The following letters denote:
A: The engine was use mostly for adult games that break ScummVM's rules and/or policies. B: Under ScummVM's current rules, and/or polices, this engine will never get added. C: Circa. D: The engines no longer being developed and/or has been discontinued. E: The engine (as far as anyone can tell) is still being maintained and/or developed by the engine developer. G: This engine will never get added because it doesn't suit ScummVM's current project goals. N: The engine lacks notable games. T: The engine is too new to benefit from an engine recreation.

Notable Games

These are some notable games, the engines these games run on were never used in another game. Games that have historic significance, such as being a classic or a notable part of video game history, will be highlighted.


Name	Developer	Publisher	Engine Name	Released	Description, SVM Support & Other Recreation Projects
Blackout	Deadline Games	BMG Interactive		1997
Entombed	Chaos Concepts Blue Water Entertainment	Software Creations WizardWorks		1994 1997 (Enhanced)
Music Chase 1: The Music In Me	Tune 1000	ReadySoft		1995
Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Quest	Zap Media Stone House Productions	Simon & Schuster Interactive		1997
Scratches	Nucleosys	Got Game Entertainment	Scream	2006	Scratches is a horror adventure game considered a modern classic by fans of adventure games.
Treasure Quest	Kopetz Bolich Design Soggy In Seattle Productions	Sirius Publishing	TQuest	1996	Treasure Quest became infamous after the publisher offered a 1 Million Dollar prize to the first person who finishes the game but this prize had a deadline, December 31, 1999. According to the publisher, the prize was won by P. Dreizen of San Francisco, California, in May of 1998.

Platforms

In this list are software development platforms, used to make software and games of varying genres, similar to Macromedia Director or mTropolis. Platforms like these benefit the most from engine recreations do to the large variety of things made with them


Name	Released	Letters	NOG	Description, SVM Support & Other Recreation Projects
HyperCard	1987	D		Developed by Apple, HyperCard was used to make hundreds games and software for MacOS computers from 1987 to roughly 1999. An engine recreation for modern computers would have a major impact on video game and software preservation but this would also be a huge project as well.

The Top Three Genres

These engines are the ones most likely to get added to ScummVM, This is because they were used to make at least one of the following genres

Adventure Games: The bread and butter of the project
Visual Novels: The Japanese equivalent of graphic adventure games
Edutainment: ScummVM is quickly becoming an impotent part of edutainment preservation

Edutainment


Name	Released	Letters	NOG	Description, SVM Support & Other Recreation Projects
Atlas	1994	D	47+	Developed by Davidson & Associates, It was used make many kids games and oddities like What's Her Face!, Superstar Rivals and the 2002 adaptation of American Idol. It's place in Video game history is in edutainment, Atlas was used to make entries in classic franchises like the Davidson's Learning Center series, Blaster series, and the JumpStart series. it was used to make quite a few Fisher-Price games as well.
IET	1997	D	7	"ImaginEngine Technology" or IET for short, is a in-house engine developed by ImaginEngine. It was first used to make games for Hasbro like Chutes & Ladders, Operation, Tonka Construction 2 and Barney: On Location All Around Town, it would later get used to make Matchbox Cross Town Heroes, Arthur's Camping Adventure & two educational Clifford The Big Red games (Learning Activities, Musical Memory Games)
Sun \ SunX	199?	D	5+	An engine developed by Sunburst Communications, It was use by them for most if not all of their mid to late 90s-era games .
Titan	199?	D	22	Titan was developed by Compedia, They used this engine to make under thirty educational games, before moving to Macromedia Director for all their games.

Adventure Games (3D)


Name	Released	Letters	NOG	Description, SVM Support & Other Recreation Projects
AGDS	2003	D	5	The "Advanced Graphic Development System" or AGDS for short, is an engine developed by Future Games, they used it to make adventure games like The Black Mirror, Alter Ego and NiBiRu - Age of Secrets
Cougar	2001	D	4	Developed by House of Tales Entertainment, Cougar is an Adventure Game engine that was used to make Overclocked: A History of Violence, 15 Days, The Moment of Silence and the infamous, The Mystery of the Druids.
CPAL3D	2004	D	7
LithTech Jupiter	2002	D	18	An Engine developed by Monolith Productions. It was used to make some well known titles like No One Lives Forever 2, Tron 2.0, and Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault. In an unexpected change in circumstances, there is a chance of it getting added to ScummVM, as Jupiter was used make two adventure games: Mysterious Journey II and Sentinel - Descendants in Time.
Opalium	2006	D	3	Developed by Nebulaquest, Opalium is an Adventure Game engine that was used to make Paradise, Sinking Island and Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
Panda3D	2003	D	8
Phoenix3D	2000	D	7
Virtools	2000	D	26+	Many Adventure Games from early to mid 2000s were made with this engine including contemporary classics like Still Life and Syberia.

Visual Novels \ Adventure Games (2D \ FMV)


Name	Released	Letters	NOG	Description, SVM Support & Other Recreation Projects
ADV98V	1991c	AD	70	A Visual Novel engine designed for the PC-98 series of computers.
ADVENT	1985	D	4
Adventure Maker	2001	D	13+	A point-and-click Game Engine and Toolkit developed by Giovanni Albani and the "Adventure Maker Team" It hasn't been updated since 2013 and seems to be a mostly dead project by now.
Adventure Programming Engine	1990	D	2	Adventure game engine developed by Accolade, APE was used to make two games: Altered Destiny and Les Manley in: Search for the King.
ADVIZ	1992c	BD	7+	A Visual Novel engine developed for the PC-98.
AGS	1993	BD	6	This is not that AGS, it a much older engine developed by C's Ware for the PC-98 that was use to make 90s classics like Eve ~Burst Error~, Desire and Love Potion. these games are some of the most impotent games in video game history, with of them being some of, if not, the first visual novels to get an English translation.
AI \ AI4	1989	BD	80	Custom visual novel engines designed for the PC-98 series of computers used to make some of the earliest games made by the ELF Corporation.
AI5	1991c	AD	20+	A visual novel engine designed for DOS, PC-98, FM Towns and the Sharp X68000.
AI5Win	1997c	AD	25+	The Windows 9x port of the AI5 engine
AVG32	1993c	AD	25+	Although it's unknown how many games were made with AVG32, the engine was vary popular with 90s visual novel developers. This engine was used to make classics like Air, Kanon and Gakuen Heaven.
BlueGale	2003	BND	8	A custom engine developed by and named after BlueGale, a developer of adult visual novels.
BTZ (Better Than Zork)	1985	D	4
CatSystem	1998	AD	100+
CineActive	1995c	D	3+	An engine developed by Peter Marx for FMV games. There are only three game currently known to of used this engine: Terror T.R.A.X.: Track of the Vampire, Johnny Mnemonic and the windows version of Capcom's Fox Hunt.
CodeX RScrip	2002	EA	70	Custom visual novel engine developed and used by Liar-soft.
Comic Maker	1998c	D	180+	This hard to research engine was mainly used by dōjin developers, an engine recreation would help preserve many Japanese indie games.
Ethornell \ BGI	2004	E	90+
Filmation	1984	D	5
Hot Soup Processor	1994	E	35	HSP is a scripting language popular in Japan. its unlikely to get added to ScummVM because of the 35 visual novels made with it (since almost all of them have adult content) It would get added to preserve Japanese indie game history, dōjin titles and the many school projects made with HSP, that said, games made HSP are poorly documented \ archived,so a lot more research would be needed before it could be added.
Inglish	1982	D	5	The engine used by Beam Software for their "Tolkien Software Adventure" series
Interheart FPK	1999	BD	4	A custom engine developed by Interheart that was used to make a few of their games.
KaGuYa	2001	B	55	Named after the company that develop it, this engine is used by almost every game by Atelier Kaguya.
KiriKiri	1998	D	3500+	One of the most widely use used engines, It has been used make classic visual novels like Fate/stay night, Witch on the Holy Night, 1999ChristmasEve and many other gems.
Klik & Play	1994	D
Magnus	????	D	14	Engine developed by Ivanoff Interactive A/S.
Main System	2002	AD	5	An engine almost entirely only used by BL game developer, Vivid Color.
Majiro Script Engine	2004	AD	118
Malie	2001	AD	56
MAPL	1995	BD	30
N2System	2003	AD	12	A custom engine developed by Nitroplus, it was used for many visual novel classics such as CHAOS;HEAD, Steins;Gate, and DRAMAtical Murder.
NScripter	1999	D	1100+	Widely used by both commercial and dōjin developers. NScripter gave us classics like Ever17, Kurai Nichiyoubi, Memories Off 2nd and the When They Cry series (Ciconia, Higurashi, Umineko)
Pie in the Sky	1993c	D	20+
Playground	2006	D	72	An engine developed by PlayFirst that was used to make many casual games and adventure games like Emerald City Confidential and the Dream Chronicles series.
QLIE	2005c	BD	68
RealLive	2001	D	100+	The successor to AVG32, it was used to make of the genres most well known classics such as Little Busters, Clannad, & Planetarian
SaiSys	2000	BD	60+	A custom engine made by Aqua House and used by them and their subsidiaries.
Shiina Rio	2000	A	150+	An engine developed by Foster and used by WillPlus and their subsidiaries
Spark Casual Engine	2011	E	16+	An engine developed by Artifex Mundi that was used to make adventure games.
System	1988	A	150+	Dating all the way back to 1988. Every game AliceSoft has made runs on a version of this engine. They currently use System 4.x to develop their games.
System-98	1993	BD	11	A custom engine made by Excellents for the PC-98 and used by them and their subsidiaries.
System-NNN	2000	AD	110
TMR-Hiro ADV System	2005	E	25
TyranoScript	2015	ET	3000+	TyranoBuilder is an engine designed for making visual novels.
Visionaire	2006	E	47+
Video Reality	1997	D	2	The engine SouthPeak Interactive used for Temüjin and Dark Side of the Moon.
WADVIZ	1997c	BD	9+	The Windows 9x port of the ADVIZ engine
Wolf RPG Editor	1998	E	140+
World Builder	1986	D	20+
YU-RIS	2001c	E	400+

Engines Used For Other Genres

These engines were never used to make Adventure Games, Visual Novels Or Edutainment games


Name	Released	Letters	NOG	Description, SVM Support & Other Recreation Projects
Black Hawk Engine	2001	GD	6
BRender	1995	GD	25
Build Engine	1995	GD	18+
CatCore	2002	D	15
Chrome	2001	GE	28+	An engine developed by Techland.
Dagor Engine	2003	GD	16
Dark Engine	1998	GD	3
Entropy	2002	GD	3	The engine used to make Tribes: Aerial Assault, Area 51 (2005) and The Hobbit (2003)
Genesis 3D	1999	D	14+
Genie Engine	1997	D	3	An engine developed by Ensemble Studios, it was used to make Age of Empires, Age of Empires II, Age of Empires Definitive Editions, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and the expansion packs for these three games.
Glacier	2000	GD	12	An engine developed by IO Interactive
Gold Box	1988	D	22
Infinity Engine	1998	D	10
Prism 3D	2001	GD	17	An engine developed by SCS Software.
S3D	1998	D	3	Engine developed by PopTop Software for Railroad Tycoon II, Tropico, and Tropico 2
SEUCK	1988	D	16+	SEUCK is an acronym for "Shoot 'em up Construction Kit"
VirtualDungeon	1992	D	2+	Engine developed by Neurosport to make pseudo-3D 1st-person RPG's
Windows Animation Package 32	1997	D	3	Developed by Monolith Productions, WAP32 is best known for being engine that powered the Classic 2D platformer, Claw but it was also used to make the puzzle/strategy game, Gruntz and the hack & slash dungeon crawler, Get Medieval.
XnGine	1995	GD	9
zEngine / ZenGine	2001	GD	2	The engine used to make Gothic and Gothic II.

Miscellaneous Engines


Name	Released	Letters
Construct	2007	E
Godot	2001	E
Mugen	1999	G
OpenBOR	2005	G
Ren'Py	2004	E
Unity	2005	E

Console Engines

These engines were either made for video game consoles or the main focus for these engines were consoles.


Name	Released	Letters	NOG	Description, SVM Support & Other Recreation Projects
Alchemy	2002	GD	41	initially developed by Intrinsic Graphics before being bought by Vicarious Visions. Alchemy was used to make games like Crash Nitro Kart, Marvel Ultimate Alliance & X-Men: Legends.
Infernal	2002	GD	24	An engine developed by Terminal Reality.
Jade	2003	GD	10	Proprietary game engine developed by Ubisoft. This is the engine that powered Beyond Good & Evil, Rayman: Raving Rabbids and the Prince of Persia Sands of Time Trilogy.
Vicious Engine	2005	GD	17+
Zero	1999	GD	9	An engine developed by Pandemic Studios.
Zouna	2002	GD	30+

Mobile Engines


Name	Released	Letters	NOG	Description, SVM Support & Other Recreation Projects
Cosmos	2013	GD	4	A proprietary engine developed by Ubisoft for iOS and Android.
ExEn	2000	GD	125+
Mascot Capsule	2001	GD	600
Mophun	2002	GD	310+
X-Forge	2003	GD	10+
Wireless Game Engine	2001c	GD	22+

Engines Added to ScummVM

Main article: ScummVM

Name	Released	Support	Description
Access	1991c	Decent
ADL	1980	Good
Adventure Game Studio	1997	Decent
AGI	1984	Good
AGOS	1989	Decent
Composer	1995	Good
Cryomni3D \ Cryo	1995	Low
DGDS	1990	Low
Director	1985	Low
Freescape	1987	Decent
Glk	Various	Good
Gnap	1997	Good
Gob	1990c	Decent
Got	1993	Decent
Griffon	2005	Decent
GrimE	1998	Decent
Groovie	1993	Decent
Hadesch	1998	Low
HDB	2001	Good
Hopkins	1998	Good
Hugo	1990	Good
Hypno	1995	Decent
Illusions	1997	Low
Kingdom	1995	Decent
Kyra	1991	Decent
Legend	1990	Preliminary	ScummVM git fork
MADE	1992	Decent
MediaStation	1994	Preliminary
Mohawk	1993	Decent
MADS \ M4	1992	Low
mTropolis	1995	Low
Nancy	1996	Low
Parallaction	1992	Low
QdEngine	????	Decent
Ring	1999	Preliminary	ScummVM git fork
SAGA	1994	Decent
SCI	1988	Decent
SCUMM	1987	Decent
SLUDGE	2003	Preliminary
Tetraedge	2001	Low
Tinsel	1995	Decent
TsAGE	1992	Low
TwinE	1994	Decent
Ultima	Various	Low
Wintermute	2003	Low
Xeen \ Mm	1987	Decent
Yaga	2002	Preliminary

Also See

This article is a never-ending list. It will always need updates and will likely have new content added to it on a consistent basis. Because of this, it can never truly be a finished article.