🦀 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 (opens in a new tab).

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

• wgpu9k3M total – Cross-platform 3D library that implements WebGPU
  Cross-platform 3D library that implements WebGPU
• Bevy26k750k total – 3D Data-driven (ECS) game engine
  3D Data-driven (ECS) game engine
• Fyrox7k10k total – 3D engine with a Unity-like editor (formerly rg3d)
  3D engine with a Unity-like editor (formerly rg3d)
• Ambient3k1k total – 3D multiplayer game engine
  3D multiplayer game engine
• ggez4k200k total – 2D game engine
  2D game engine
• macroquad2k200k total – 2D game engine
  2D game engine
• Piston4k800k total3y years – 3D game engine
  3D game engine
• Amethyst8k210k total2y years – 2D and 3D game engine with ECS – Archived
  2D and 3D game engine with ECS – Archived

See Libraries and frameworks for Game Development in Rust (opens in a new tab) for a more exhaustive list.

WebAssembly bundling

• wasm-pack5k800k total – Build WebAssembly packages for the browser or NPM
  Build WebAssembly packages for the browser or NPM
• Trunk3k193k total – WebAssembly application bundler
  WebAssembly application bundler

Games

• Veloren (opens in a new tab) (source (opens in a new tab))
• Zemeroth (opens in a new tab) (source (opens in a new tab))
• Are we game yet list (opens in a new tab)

Resources

• Rust GameDev WG (opens in a new tab)
• Are we game yet? (opens in a new tab)
• r/rust_gamedev subreddit (opens in a new tab)
• Game Development in Rust Discord (opens in a new tab)
• Rust web framework comparison (opens in a new tab)

Back-end

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

• hyper13k103M total
• Actix Web19k14M total
• Rocket22k4M total
• axum12k21M total
• warp9k11M total
• iron6k1M total
• tide5k1M total
• rouille1k2M total
• poem900k total