🦀 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
9k 3M/w
Bevy
26k
750k/w
– 3D Data-driven (ECS) game engine
26k 750k/w
Fyrox
7k
10k/w
– 3D engine with a Unity-like editor (formerly rg3d)
7k 10k/w
Ambient
3k
1k/w
– 3D multiplayer game engine
3k 1k/w
ggez
4k
200k/w
– 2D game engine
4k 200k/w
macroquad
2k
200k/w
– 2D game engine
2k 200k/w
Piston
4k
800k/w
– 3D game engine
4k 800k/w 5 years
Amethyst
8k
210k/w
– 2D and 3D game engine with ECS – Archived
8k 210k/w 3 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
5k 800k/w
Trunk
3k
193k/w
– WebAssembly application bundler
3k 193k/w

Games

Resources

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
13k 103M/w
Actix Web
19k
14M/w
19k 14M/w
Rocket
22k
4M/w
22k 4M/w
axum
12k
21M/w
12k 21M/w
warp
9k
11M/w
9k 11M/w
iron
6k
1M/w
6k 1M/w
tide
5k
1M/w
5k 1M/w
rouille
1k
2M/w
1k 2M/w
poem

900k/w
N/A 900k/w

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