Top 15 Allegro Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, libraries mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. They handle common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform. However, Allegro is not a game engine: you are free to design and structure your program as you like.

1. PyOpenGL

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2. OGRE

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3. SDL

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4. Insanity

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5. Grit Game Engine

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6. SFML

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7. SDL Game Engine

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11. Mantle

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12. Unseen64

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13. DX Studio

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