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Top 23 Lua Love2d Projects
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There are many open-source games. There are few large-scale high-polish open source games because it's difficult to build a business model around that. Unlike non-game software, games are ~exclusively consumer-facing, so you can't sell support or use them as a loss leader, and they're standalone applications that are difficult to monetize with online features or to use as the core of a closed-source commercial product.
That said, there are still lots of great projects out there (some of which have even had commercial success), for example:
- https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX
- https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason
- https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky
- https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry
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- Project mention: Evolved.lua – An Evolved ECS (Entity-Component-System) for Lua | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-21
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Yes!
I remember first implementing this in Planimeter Game Engine 2D, we got a massive resolution list from SDL (through LÖVE, which is what we're built on).
If I remember correctly, we filtered the list ourselves by allowing users to explicitly select supported display ratios first, then showing the narrowed list from there. Not great. Technically there's a 683:384 ratio in there.[1]
But it did enough of the job that users who knew what resolution they wanted to pick in the first place didn't have to scroll a gargantuan list!
[1]: https://github.com/Planimeter/game-engine-2d/blob/v9.0.1/eng...
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- Project mention: Using Cursor, Zed, ChatGPT 4.1 and Lua LOVE 2D game engine for game development | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-16
It's designed for 2D but there are libraries which add 3D rendering, e.g. Menori (https://github.com/rozenmad/Menori) and G3D (https://github.com/groverburger/g3d)
Alternatively, the LÖVR framework - https://lovr.org/ - is heavily inspired by LÖVE, but is aimed towards making VR games (but can also be used as a regular 3D game engine)
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astray
Astray is a lua based maze, room and dungeon generation library for dungeon crawlers and rougelike video games
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Lua Love2d discussion
Lua Love2d related posts
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g3d: simple 3d engine for LÖVE
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Using Cursor, Zed, ChatGPT 4.1 and Lua LOVE 2D game engine for game development
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Releasing a game on Steam
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
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Give your brain time to think and remember
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How do I make money off Love2D development?
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Open source LÖVE games for Android?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Love2d projects in Lua? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | SNKRX | 1,857 |
| 2 | BYTEPATH | 1,480 |
| 3 | picolove | 839 |
| 4 | tiny-ecs | 767 |
| 5 | game-engine-2d | 747 |
| 6 | g3d | 731 |
| 7 | 3DreamEngine | 455 |
| 8 | batteries | 420 |
| 9 | Slab | 351 |
| 10 | love-api | 345 |
| 11 | Concord | 291 |
| 12 | rotLove | 282 |
| 13 | Menori | 262 |
| 14 | sock.lua | 181 |
| 15 | astray | 176 |
| 16 | LOVE-Example-Browser | 171 |
| 17 | helium | 120 |
| 18 | livesim2_async | 98 |
| 19 | splashes | 84 |
| 20 | vector.lua | 61 |
| 21 | max-downforce | 58 |
| 22 | Emmy-love-api | 55 |
| 23 | Gravity-Wars | 48 |
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