Bevy vs LÖVE
Bevy
bevy.orgLÖVE
love2d.orgSide by side
| Figure | Bevy | LÖVE |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $5/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 10 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Engine Software | 9.3 (#2) | 8.5 (#31) |
| Audio | Bevy can load audio files as assets and play audio assets using Audio entities. | The site includes an example that loads and plays streamed audio. |
| Dependencies | Bevy is built in pure Rust, while additional operating-system dependencies are needed for features such as windows, audio, and peripheral input. | The project repository lists SDL3, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, Metal, OpenAL, Lua-family runtimes, and other libraries as dependencies. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Graphics | Its features include 2D and 3D rendering, a composable render graph, and skeletal and morph-target animation. | The site includes examples for drawing text and images. |
| Mobile export | Yes | Yes |
| Platforms | The site lists support for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web, iOS, and Android. | The site lists Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS as supported platforms. |
| Purpose | Bevy is a data-driven game engine built in Rust for making 2D and 3D games, visualizations, user interfaces, and other graphical applications. | LÖVE is a framework for making 2D games in Lua. |
| Scripting languages | Rust | Lua |
| Source code model | open_source | open_source |
| Support | The Bevy community page links to GitHub for issues and contributions, a Bevy Q&A site, and a Discord community. | The site directs users to its forums, Discord server, and subreddit for community help. |
| Target platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux,Web,iOS,Android | Windows,macOS,Linux,Android,iOS |
| Use cases | Bevy is intended for making 2D and 3D games, visualizations, user interfaces, and other graphical applications. | The site says LÖVE has been used for commercial projects, game jams, and prototyping. |
Plans
Bevy
- Bevy EngineFree
- Bronze$5 a month
- Silver$10 a month
- Gold$25 a month
- Platinum$50 a month
- Titanium$100 a month
- Diamond$250 a month
- Corporate Bronze$500 a month
- Corporate Silver$1,000 a month
- Corporate Gold$2,000 a month
In their own words
Bevy
Bevy is a free, open-source game engine built in Rust for 2D and 3D games, visualizations, interfaces, and other graphical applications. It uses a custom Entity Component System, with components represented as Rust structs and systems as Rust functions. The engine includes 2D and 3D rendering, a composable render graph, skeletal and morph-target animation, scene loading, hot reloading, UI, and audio playback. Its 2D renderer supports sprites, texture atlases, cameras, materials, custom shaders, and render pipelines. The 3D renderer includes lights, shadows, meshes, materials, cameras, and glTF loading. The ECS-driven UI framework uses flex-box layout and can be composed in code or scenes. Scene changes can update running applications; hot reloading currently covers scenes, textures, and meshes. Bevy targets Windows, macOS, Linux, web, iOS, and Android, and is available through crates.io with cargo add bevy. Users choose MIT or Apache 2.0 licensing, with no license fees or sales cuts. It remains in development, with possible missing features, sparse documentation, and breaking API changes about every three months.