🦀 Rust Game Dev

Over the past few years, Rust has taken the low-level programming world by storm thanks to its performance, safety, cross-platform nature, and ease of use. These qualities make Rust a growingly popular choice for game development, and there are many libraries and frameworks that can be used to create games in Rust. It is currently the most loved programming language according to the StackOverflow 2022 survey.

This website is mainly about JavaScript game development, but due to the growing popularity of Rust for game development and the fact that it can be easily compiled to WebAssembly to run in the browser, I thought it would be useful to summarize what’s going on in the Rust ecosystem for those who might be interested.

Game engines and libraries

• Stars
  Crate
  Maintained
• wgpu

  9k

  3M/w

  – Cross-platform 3D library that implements WebGPU
  9k3M/w
• Bevy

  26k

  750k/w

  – 3D Data-driven (ECS) game engine
  26k750k/w
• Fyrox

  7k

  10k/w

  – 3D engine with a Unity-like editor (formerly rg3d)
  7k10k/w
• Ambient

  3k

  1k/w

  – 3D multiplayer game engine
  3k1k/w
• ggez

  4k

  200k/w

  – 2D game engine
  4k200k/w
• macroquad

  2k

  200k/w

  – 2D game engine
  2k200k/w
• Piston

  4k

  800k/w

  – 3D game engine
  4k800k/w5 years
• Amethyst

  8k

  210k/w

  – 2D and 3D game engine with ECS – Archived
  8k210k/w4 years

See Libraries and frameworks for Game Development in Rust for a more exhaustive list.

WebAssembly bundling

• Stars
  Crate
  Maintained
• wasm-pack

  5k

  800k/w

  – Build WebAssembly packages for the browser or NPM
  5k800k/w
• Trunk

  3k

  193k/w

  – WebAssembly application bundler
  3k193k/w

Games

• Veloren (source)
• Zemeroth (source)
• Are we game yet list

Resources

• Rust GameDev WG
• Are we game yet?
• r/rust_gamedev subreddit
• Game Development in Rust Discord
• Rust web framework comparison

Back-end

As an unnecessary bonus, here are some back-end web frameworks if you want to go full-stack with Rust:

• Stars
  Crate
  Maintained
• hyper

  13k

  103M/w
  13k103M/w
• Actix Web

  19k

  14M/w
  19k14M/w
• Rocket

  22k

  4M/w
  22k4M/w
• axum

  12k

  21M/w
  12k21M/w
• warp

  9k

  11M/w
  9k11M/w
• iron

  6k

  1M/w
  6k1M/w
• tide

  5k

  1M/w
  5k1M/w
• rouille

  1k

  2M/w
  1k2M/w
• poem

  900k/w
  N/A900k/w