The game engine for high-performance cross-platform games
No setup
Defold comes fully featured out of the box. There's nothing to set up or configure, not even when building. Simply download the editor and get creative!
- Visual Editor
- Code Editor
- Lua Scripting
- Lua Debugger
- Scene Editor
- Particle Editor
- Tilemap Editor
- 2D & 3D
Truly cross-platform
Using just one code base, and without the need for external tools, Defold lets you publish your game to all of the major platforms:
- PlayStation®5
- PlayStation®4
- Nintendo Switch
- Android
- iOS
- macOS
- Linux
- Windows
- Steam
- HTML5
- XBox - Coming Soon!
Turn-key solution
- Use basic building blocks to create complex behaviour.
- Everything you need to make a game in one tool
- Write game logic using Lua.
- Zero-config cloud build for native code
Custom configuration
- Add new functionality from the Asset Portal.
- Setup your own local build environment.
- Write your own native code to extend the engine.
- Integrated with tools such as Atom, VS Code, Rive, Spine, TexturePacker and Tiled.
Free. Forever.
- No up-front cost.
- No licensing cost.
- No royalties.
- No runtime fee.
- Free forever. Thanks to the objectives of the Defold Foundation.
Production ready
- Proven track record of game releases on mobile, web, desktop and consoles.
- Integrations with analytics, app economy and game services available out of the box.
- Actively developed, with a new release every month.
- Technical support contracts available if needed.
Family Island
What would your life be without modern technology on the deserted island? Dive into simplicity of the primal world with the modern Stone Age family in this thrilling offline adventure game. Stranded on the remote island, a family of four - Bruce, Eva and their kids - needs your guidance and help starting a new family home from scratch and navigating through various family life situations with humour.
| Developer | Melsoft |
| Release date | 2019 |
| Platforms | iOS, Android |
| Downloads | 50M+ on Google Play (Sep 2023) |
Blog updates
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Published on Jun 18, 2025
Piece of Cake Merge & Bake is one of the most successful games in the Merge 2 genre. Joined by our friends from Playgama, we talked with Rustam Batyrkhanov, founder of HG Point - the great minds behind the game. Read on to learn about failed projects, get free insights on the web dev market and find out who really brings the big bucks to Activision Blizzard. - READ
Defold release 1.10.2
Published on Jun 10, 2025
Defold 1.10.2 has been released. - READ
Defold release 1.10.1
Published on May 12, 2025
Defold 1.10.1 has been released. - READ
Latest News
Defold Foundation x Poki Integration!
Published on Apr 25, 2025
A quick update on new features from our partnership - READ
Defold 2024 Showreel
Published on Mar 05, 2025
The Defold 2024 showreel has been published on YouTube. The showreel contains some of the amazing games which have been released in 2024. - READ
Announcing editor scripts for UI creation
Published on Sep 26, 2024
We are excited to announce our first technical preview of editor scripting API for creating interactive UI elements in the editor! - READ
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