Best AI game maker, by exports, price and rights

Which AI game maker fits your goal?

Start with what you want to end up with, whether that’s a playable link, files for a storefront, or a project you can keep coding.

• A quick playable link. Start with Rosebud, which builds 2D and 3D games from a description and publishes them in the browser. Makko offers a similar describe, play and share loop for 2D games, though its free publishing limit isn’t stated.

• A game to sell on Steam or itch.io. Start with GDevelop, whose exports and license cover desktop builds, web-file exports and permission to sell. Summer also advertises Windows and macOS exports, and its free-plan page says free-made games can be sold with no royalties, although its terms state ownership rather than a separate commercial-use grant.

• A game you keep coding. Consider a coding agent in your project folder, although Summer also gives you editable GDScript. The coding route below covers that choice.

How the four game makers compare

These tools either build playable games for you or add AI creation straight into a game engine. The table keeps where you build separate from what players end up with.

We read everything on October 1, 2026, and prices are in USD. “Not stated” means the linked sources didn’t establish that detail, and since the table is wide, scroll across for publishing rights and prices.

Rosebud is quick to share, but check the paid line

Rosebud’s game-creator page offers free browser creation and publishing from plain-language descriptions. The paid features come in steps, and its pricing puts the code tab on Indie Dev at $15/month and commercial rights on 10x Dev at $30/month.

Downloadable project code only comes with Pro at $50/month, so editing code in the browser and actually taking it off the platform are separate features.

The terms permit commercial use of content created on a paid plan and limit content made on the free plan to personal, non-commercial use. It’s easy to miss, but they also reserve ownership of generated material to Rosebud.

Oddly, the pricing page’s $30 commercial threshold doesn’t match the terms’ paid-user wording, so confirm which plan applies before you sell. The Windows-export guide says export needs a paid plan, too, but doesn’t name the minimum tier.

GDevelop gives you visual events and a way to export

GDevelop’s AI agent can create scenes, objects and events and build mechanics inside your project. You still get a visual event system to look at and change, which the engine documentation describes as no-code. And if you’re away from a desk, its download page explicitly supports building on phones, tablets and computers.

The publishing docs explain desktop builds for Windows, macOS and Linux, and the HTML5 export docs explain web files for itch.io. The README license section permits selling exported games, while the service terms describe the engine’s MIT license but don’t state an output-ownership clause.

The free plan includes 40 AI credits/month and unlimited gd.games publishing.

If you use the account for your company, or for a client company, with more than $50,000 in revenue or funds raised in the prior 12 months, GDevelop requires Pro. We couldn’t even see the paid prices, since they didn’t render in the pricing table we retrieved, so we’ve left them out.

Makko pairs 2D art with a playable browser game

Makko splits the work in a neat way. Its product page describes an Art Studio for characters and animations and a Code Studio that builds a playable 2D browser game from your description, and you can publish a link without sorting out hosting yourself. Its terms permit commercial game creation and export for external hosting, with a limited license for Makko to host, display and process your content.

The free allowance is 150 art budget/month and 70 chat requests/week. When we retrieved the pricing page, the paid plans only showed loading text, and neither it nor the terms established an export file format or a free-tier publishing allowance. So don’t assume a browser link comes with an HTML5 download or a native build.

Summer builds a desktop project, and hosting is still to come

Summer’s game-maker page describes a desktop engine compatible with Godot 4, with prompt-driven scene creation, editable GDScript and native Windows/macOS exports.

Its pricing makes the editor and manual export free, offers some starter hosted-AI usage and lists Pro at $20/month, though it recommends Pro+ at $60/month for AI-led game building.

Its export docs cover a game-content .pck submitted to Summer’s catalog, and those docs say browser play, desktop-shell play and hosted game servers for uploaded games aren’t live. That’s a separate thing from the advertised native export route, so keep the two apart.

Summer is still in early access. Its terms establish content ownership, and its free-plan page says games made for free can be sold with no royalties or revenue share.

Use a coding agent for a game you keep building

This is the route for when you want to work on the project files yourself and take responsibility for the build and publishing choices. Claude Code reads a codebase, edits files and runs commands, Codex CLI runs locally, and Cursor combines an editor and a coding agent. Antigravity is another development platform, with an IDE and local agents.

You get a lot more control over the project files that way, but picking an agent doesn’t settle your engine, asset licenses or release format. Best AI for game development compares plans and workflows, and if you want to start with one project, how to make a game with AI or vibe coding a game will get you going.

General app builders are a separate group

Lovable builds web apps from natural language, and Bolt builds apps and websites from chat. We keep them in their own group because their documented scope is general apps. If that’s your route, compare them on the coding-tools page, and then decide what game loop you want to build.

What creators we list actually used

These counts show the tools named by creators of the games we list. They’re basically a record of what people used, and they don’t rank the makers above by quality or ease of use.

Tool	Category	Listed games naming it
Claude Code	Coding agent	224
Cursor	Editor and coding agent	106
Codex	Coding agent	101
Antigravity	Development platform	20
Lovable	General app builder	9
Bolt	General app builder	6
Rosebud	Dedicated game maker	5

These counts are as of November 14, 2026. We list 588 games, 414 of them Vibe Jam 2026 entries.

Creators name their own tools, and a game can name more than one, so the counts overlap. The jam page names Cursor and Bolt as sponsors, so this sample isn’t a neutral survey of all game-making tools either (how we count).

You can see what that looks like in a few of the top games. A Game About Capybaras Delivering Food names Claude Code, while Fanto’s Mega-Mart and WenWare both name Codex.

The tool hubs show what creators shipped with each one, and GDevelop, Makko and Summer have no tool slug in our current taxonomy, which leaves them without a count in the table.

How we chose and checked these four

We picked Rosebud, GDevelop, Makko and Summer from products with current primary documentation that describes making playable games, and we read their own product, documentation, pricing and terms pages on October 1, 2026. Vendor comparisons only helped us find candidates, and we didn’t benchmark output quality or test these editors.

We left Ludo.ai off after its FAQ said it doesn’t create playable games or prototypes while its pricing listed playable iteration generation, and we couldn’t reconcile the two or find a publishing route. Astrocade’s export and ownership details also couldn’t be verified for this review.

A “not stated” in the table is a gap in the sources we could read, not a claim that a feature is unavailable, and catalog use is counted separately on every site build.

The exported files and the rights should match how you’ll release the game before you pay for a plan, and selling AI-made games covers what comes after.