Bevy vs Pygame
Bevy
bevy.orgPygame
pygame.orgSide by side
| Figure | Bevy | Pygame |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 10 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Engine Software | 9.3 (#2) | 8.2 (#48) |
| Dependencies | Bevy is built in pure Rust, while additional operating-system dependencies are needed for features such as windows, audio, and peripheral input. | Pygame depends on Python and SDL; its modules also use libraries including SDL_ttf, SDL_mixer, and SDL_image, while NumPy is required for surfarray. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Installation | Bevy is available as a library on crates.io and the getting-started guide shows adding it to a Rust project with cargo add bevy. | The installation guide recommends installing Pygame with pip and says it can compile from source if a wheel is unavailable for the platform. |
| Mobile export | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | Bevy is a data-driven game engine built in Rust for making 2D and 3D games, visualizations, user interfaces, and other graphical applications. | Pygame is a Python library for making multimedia applications such as games, built on SDL. |
| Scripting languages | Rust | Python |
| Source code model | open_source | open_source |
| Target platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux,Web,iOS,Android | Windows,macOS,Linux,Android |
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.