Blender Game Engine | Top 10 Games Made with Blender UPBGE

UPBGE is Blender’s open-source 3D game engine that was forked from the old Blender Game Engine and deployed with Blender itself. But today we’re going to cover some of the most iconic games made with Blender. These were made with the old game engine in addition to the new Blender UPBGE.

Can Blender game engine increase your productivity?

UPBGE is an open-source game engine fully integrated into Blender. Its main strength is its unified workflow, in addition, it has many features such as:

• Realtime advanced physics powered by Bullet, including rigid bodies, soft bodies, obstacle simulation and path finding.
• Fully integrated audio engine, powered by OpenAL and SDL, supporting 3D sound and sound effects.
• Powerful Python language bindings and components, allowing more support for libraries through the use of PyPI
• Render attachments and HDR pipeline.

With Blender game engine, you will be able to increase your productivity incredibly, as you can make your game from start to finish without leaving Blender. Furthermore, Blender is an advanced 3D software that has many addons available for multiple purposes such as:

• Hard Surface modeling addons to make the most incredible models with intricate details and outstanding accuracy.
• PBR addons and material packs to bake and texture your models like a pro.
• Plants, grass and botanic asset packs that help you populate your scenes quickly and efficiently.
• Management and productivity addons that will make your workflow quicker and smoother. So, you would never miss a deadline or spend hours on cumbersome tasks instead of focusing on the creative process.
• Retopology addons for the best meshes workflow and the most efficient retopology process.
• Rendering addons that will make your renders high-quality pixel perfect, and with the most optimal speed.
• UV unwrapping and UV mapping addons to help you create UV maps quickly and easily in a short period of time.
• Texturing and shading addons to add more depth and realism to your models and scenes.
• Terrain and space scenes addons are a must-have, despite being seemingly niche and too targeted. It can save you hours of work and help you achieve results that are very difficult to deliver otherwise.
• ArchViz addons to help you make the most out of your architectural visualization work.
• Rigging addons to make the process of building puppets, rigs and skeletons tremendously fast and more efficient. These can be especially helpful for character animation.
• Simulation and VFX addons to help you add the most incredible visual effects to your 3D animations with Blender.
• Animation addons to make the animation process with Blender 3D software reach the next level.
• Modeling addons to help you optimize the modeling process and create your models more efficiently.

In today’s article, we listed the top 10 games made with Blender UPBGE.

10. Yo Frankie!

in 2008, it was among the first games made with Blender’s game engine, It’s an open-source video game made by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation, originally scheduled for release in August 2008.

It’s about rather a rebellious squirrel with a strong urge to annoy other animals, the graphics are good comparing to 2008 games, it’s smooth and has many functionalities, The game is based on the universe and characters of the free film produced earlier in 2008 by the Blender Institute, Big Buck Bunny.

Link: https://apricot.blender.org/

9. Dead Cyborg

Dead Cyborg is a first-person view and a hard-sci-fi adventure game set in a world where robots are common elements of everyday life.

The game follows a cyberpunk style with futuristic details and large buildings in ruins, and so on. It was released on 12 July 2011 by an independent developer. It had a deep storyline, it’s also an episode-based publishing game where each episode had 2 to 4 hours of playing, the full game is five episodes.

It’s a donation-based game so the donations that come from the previous episodes allow you to create the new one, and it’s free and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Link: https://gamejolt.com/games/dead-cyborg/9282

8. Fly in the house

The game is about an annoying noisy fly buzzing around inside a house where the lead character smashes everything to kill it, once the player is holding an object he can press the “F” button to fling it to wherever the targeting reticule is pointed.

The game’s controls are the same as those used in first-person shooter video games, and the mouse sensitivity can be adjusted from the options menu. Since the fly is tiny and moves constantly it can be tricky to hit the pest, but luckily you can choose to illuminate it, which makes it easier to spot.

Thanks to the latest patch the behavior of the fly has been enhanced over the initial release and the power of your throws has also been increased. The player earns points by destroying objects and you can even build up combos by stringing the destruction together.

Link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/350500

7. Somewhere on Zibylon

The game was released in 2017, it is Simulation, Space, Civilian game, it is filled to the brim with the atmosphere of cold space and zero gravity. It features unusual game mechanics with plenty of exploration, puzzles, resource extraction, crafting, fights with alien forces, and seizing space stations.

Overall it’s a nice-looking game that you can have fun playing. it’s not the best game on this list but it sure is an interesting game.

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/631920/Somewhere_on_Zibylon/

6. YRMINSUL

It was released in 2016 by black flag studio and published by plug-in digital. It is a strategy game in a persistent universe where each combat is held in the form of a Tower Defense, the player can pick an Island to invade and spy on the enemy to evaluate their forces.

The player’s opponents try to reclaim the islands they control. you will have to defend your territory from your enemies’ sneaky attacks. At the same time, you will invade their Islands. You can also toggle forward and backward between the islands because the universe is persistent when you build a turret, it will stay on its island except if the enemies gain control of the island.

Link: https://studioblackflag.com/yrminsul/

5. Tomato Jones

The game is about a red tomato with a hat that tries to get the entire treasures in the mystic castle. Tomato Jones is a Casual, Action, Indie, and Adventure game, and it’s a physics-based puzzle game. It combines the classical gameplay of RPG platforms with the skill-driven game style of the ball rolling games. The game is episode-based, it was developed and published by HA Studio in 2016.

The goal in the game is to collect every coin and find all the hidden golden artifacts at the end of each level while avoiding various dangerous traps, obstacles, and enemies. The game is made to mimic the atmosphere of “Indiana Jones” movies.    

Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/499460

4. Dongo Adventure

It is a 3D platform-style game, Its initial release was on December 6, 2018, developed by QUByte Interactive, Game NaciGenl.

We can say that the game is a Platform, Indie, Puzzle, Shooter, Casual, and Adventure game. The main character Dongo is a mouse who ventures in different places like sewer, factory, house, lake, etc., and faces many enemies along his way like cockroaches, toxic gases, electric wires, mosquitoes, frogs, spiders, etc. The game can be played on Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows.

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/811450/Dongo_Adventure/

3. BUMPER

BUMPER is a casual game, released on Sept 12th, 2016. In this game the player must destroy the vehicles as much as possible, trying not to get caught by the cops, reach the checkpoints to get the time and enhance the weapons.

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/509850/Bumper/

2. Krum – Battle Arena

KRUM – Battle Arena is a fun, competitive, hack and slash, and parody game. It’s developed and published by HA Studio. It belongs to the Genres of: Action game, Indie, Free to Play, Adventure. It was Released on Jun 30, 2020, it has really good graphics compared to the other games made using Blender’s game engine.

Even though this game was created by only one developer it looks amazing. it doesn’t have a deep story because it seems that it seems to focus on battles and giving the player nice game mechanics and fighting experience.

There is an old version of this game that was released in 2015 but it wasn’t received well by developers and players alike. this news version however seems much better.

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324560/Krum__Battle_Arena/

1. Future’s End

It’s an fps single-player game, in which the lead character fights crazy robots that hate humankind; in gameplay, The player can destroy their parts by shooting in the arms and other old and dirty parts of the robot, to kill them before they kill him.

As you make progress playing this game you will face stronger enemies that allow you to have access to more and advanced weapons. The game’s environments and navigating mechanics look interesting and a bit are similar to what you will find in popular AAA video games.

Link: https://gamejolt.com/games/futures-end/458636

Final thoughts

We hope you found this list useful and informative, comment below if you think that we’ve missed something or if you have any other suggestions. Thank you for reading.