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24 alternatives to Taro

A Lightweight 3D Game Engine for the Web

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Taro launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Taro, a lightweight 3D game engine for the web▲7

   A lightweight 3D game engine for the web. Contribute to cloud9c/taro development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   E3Dos – A 3D engine I wrote when I was a teen▲83

   A 3D Engine I wrote as a kid in C++. Contribute to vladaionescu/E3Dos development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Unity like game editor running in pure WASM▲644

   In the wake of all the Unity nonsense, just wanted to toss the Raverie engine into this mix :) We’re building off a previous engine that we worked on for DigiPen Institute of Technology called the Zero Engine with a similar component based design architecture to Unity. Our engine had a unique feature called Spaces: separate worlds/levels that you can instantiate and run at the same time, which became super useful for creating UI overlays using only game objects, running multiple simulations, etc. The lighting and rendering engine is scriptable, and the default deferred rendering…

   2023 · raverie-us.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Inko – A safe and concurrent object-oriented programming language▲95

   2018 · inko-lang.org · its alternatives →

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   thirdweb▲897

   Build web3 apps and games, easily

   2021 · thirdweb.com · its alternatives →

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   I'm open-sourcing my game engine▲318

   Modd.io is a collaborative game editor that runs in browser. It's kind of like Figma for game dev. We made this engine low-code and multiplayer-first, so developeres can quickly prototype casual multiplayer games. I hope some of you guys will find this useful. Would love to hear feedback also. Thank you. Engine Demo: https://www.modd.io

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Toy – A thin C++ game engine▲180

   toy is a thin and modular c++ game engine that also runs on the web.

   2018 · hugoam.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Fio: 3D World editor/game engine – inspired by Radiant and Hammer▲96

   A liminal brush-based CSG editor and game engine with unified (forward) renderer inspired by Radiant and Worldcraft/Hammer Compact and lightweight (target: Snapdragon 8CX, OpenGL 3.3) Real-time lighting with stencil shadows without the need for pre-baked compilation

   Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Hypatia 0.2, a 2D adventure game engine▲191

   Hello, Hacker News! My name is Lillian (see: http://about.lillian.link/), and I just released version 0.2 of my MIT-licensed game engine, Hypatia(http://lillian-lemmer.github.io/hypatia/). Hypatia is a game engine for single player 2D action adventure games. You can use it to make a game like Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. Hypatia is aimed at non-programmers and programmers alike. I'm seeking any sort of feedback. Hypatia supports FreeBSD first, but has great support for just about any platform…

   2015 · its alternatives →

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    3D Parallax Editor by Webydo▲145

    Craft interactive 3D animations, without code

    2016 · 3d-parallax.webydo.com · its alternatives →

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    Triforce Todos▲456

    Minimalist Zelda - Themed Task Management

    2024 · triforcetodos.com · its alternatives →

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    I made a 2D shoot 'em up game with Go, using Entity Component System▲108

    A 2D shoot 'em up game made with Go, Ebitengine, and donburi. Featuring ECS (Entity Component System). - m110/airplanes

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Anime.js 3.0▲354

    Lightweight JavaScript animation library

    2019 · animejs.com · its alternatives →

14. 14IB
    I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG▲340

    I've been working on an MMORPG that is now in alpha as a solo developer. Here are the major open source technologies that I use: Blender - 3D modeling software for creating the overall environment and every game object. I've gotten a lot of CC and Public Domain assets from https://poly.pizza GLTF - I export assets from blender to the GLTF asset format JSON - I write a JSON config for every game object that describes things like its name, its interactions, its collisions, etc. Node.js exporter - I iterate over the environment and every asset to create a scene hierarchy. I use…

    2024 · alpha.reconquer.online · its alternatives →

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    Ambient, a multiplayer game engine and platform using WASM/WebGPU/Rust▲90

    Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed. Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular…

    2023 · ambient.run · its alternatives →

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    I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine▲236

    I open sourced my HTML5 multiplayer 3D voxel browser game engine.

    2023 · kevzettler.com · its alternatives →

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    Taro - Tech Career Mentorship▲133

    Premium membership for ambitious software engineers

    2022 · jointaro.com · its alternatives →

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    Nexus.js - Fabric.js for 3D▲91

    I was looking for a tiny library to easily transform both 2D & 3D objects with simple mouse / touch controls and a fixed camera, in the browser. Like a simple 3D editor but without requiring the user to be a Blender expert. Couldn't find anything lightweight, so I’m building one. Think Fabric.js but for 3D. Built entirely with Three.js / R3F. Borrowed some inspiration from VR/AR interaction systems for controls. Feel free to play with it and let me know what you think!

    2025 · punk.cam · its alternatives →

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    A 2D game engine in under 1000 lines of C▲98

    A top-down 2d game engine, written from scratch in under 1000 lines of C. Development of the game based on this engine is streamed on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ryanpcmcquen - ryanpcmcquen/basque

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Zdog▲211

    3D javascript engine for canvas and SVG

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love▲237

    The Todo App for Procrastinators ;)

    2011 · tomorrow.do · its alternatives →

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    Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean▲106

    At Cajal (YC W26) we’re excited to share Talos (https://github.com/cajal-technologies/talos), an open source framework for formal verification of WebAssembly modules in Lean. AI is now writing tons of the code that gets pushed to production. As code generation gets cheaper, verification becomes the bottleneck. We believe in a future where every piece of software comes with a mathematical proof that it does what its author intended - in doing so, eliminating many classes of exploits. Talos is part of the foundation for that. Talos provides a Wasm interpreter optimized for…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Talo Game Services▲9

    the open source game backend

    2024 · trytalo.com · its alternatives →

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    Inko.▲112

    An online markdown editor built with Vue.js

    2019 · its alternatives →

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