List of OpenGL applications
This is a non-exhaustive list of popular OpenGL-based programs.
Games
Some notable games that include an OpenGL renderer:
- 18 Wheels of Steel
- Alien Arena 2008
- Alien: Isolation (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
- America's Army
- American McGee's Alice
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
- Angry Birds (PC and Android versions)
- Aquaria
- Awesomenauts
- Baldur's Gate 2 – Defaults to D3D
- Bastion
- Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition (Mac OS X version)
- Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition (Mac OS X version)
- Beat Hazard
- Bioshock Infinite (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
- Borderlands 2 (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
- Boson X
- Brink
- BZFlag
- Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time - Defaults to D3D
- Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters - Defaults to D3D
- Bus Driver
- Celestia
- City of Heroes
- City of Villains
- Commandos
- Cortex Command
- Counter-Strike
- Counter-Strike: Source (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Darwinia - Defaults to D3D
- Dead Island (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
- Deus Ex - Defaults to D3D
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Mac OS X version)
- DiRT Showdown (Mac OS X and Linux version)
- Doom 3
- Doom (2016 video game)
- Doom 3 BFG Edition
- Dota 2
- Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
- Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair
- Dungeon Defenders (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
- Dwarf Fortress
- Dying Light
- Earth 2150
- Enclave Defaults to D3D8
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Escape from Monkey Island - Defaults to D3D
- Far Cry – Defaults to D3D
- FEZ
- Frets On Fire
- FlightGear
- FooBillard
- Game Dev Tycoon
- GRID: Autosport (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
- Half-Life series
- Half-Life 2 series (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
- Heretic II
- Heroes of Newerth - Defaults to D3D in Windows
- Hexen II
- Hitman
- Homeworld 2
- IL-2 Sturmovik
- Keepsake
- Killing Floor
- Left 4 Dead (Mac OS X version)
- Left 4 Dead 2 (Mac OS X and Linux version)
- Max Payne (Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Mac OS versions, not the windows version)
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Spearhead
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Breakthrough
- MegaGlest
- Minecraft
- Minetest
- Myth III: The Wolf Age
- Need for Speed: Carbon (Mac OS X version)
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (iOS version)
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted (iOS and android version)
- Need for Speed: ProStreet (Mac OS X version)
- Need for Speed: Shift (iOS and android version)
- Need for Speed: Undercover (iOS version)
- Neverball and Neverputt
- Neverwinter Nights
- Nexuiz
- NoLimits
- No Man's Sky
- Oil Rush
- OpenArena
- osu!
- Painkiller Hell and Damnation (Mac OS X and Linux version)
- Payday 2 (Linux version)
- Penumbra: Overture
- Penumbra: Black Plague
- Penumbra: Requiem
- Performous
- Portal (Mac OS X and Linux version)
- Portal 2 (Mac OS X and Linux version)
- Prey
- Quake series
- Rage
- Red Faction
- Receiver
- Regnum Online
- Retrobooster
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- RuneScape (High Detail Mode) - Uses the Java OpenGL library
- Saints Row 2 (Linux version)
- Saints Row: The Third (Linux version)
- Saints Row IV (Linux version)
- Saints Row: Gat out of Hell (Linux version)
- Savage: The Battle for Newerth
- Savage 2: A Tortured Soul
- Scorched 3D
- Second Life
- Serious Sam
- Serious Sam 2 - Defaults to D3D
- Serious Sam 3: BFE
- Shadowgrounds
- Shadowgrounds Survivor
- Shank
- Shank 2
- Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004 video game) (Mac OS X version)
- Ski-doo X-team Racing
- Soldier of Fortune series
- Shogo: Mobile Armor Division (in the Linux, AmigaOS, and Mac OS X versions)
- Spiral Knights
- Spore
- Spring
- Space Engine
- StarCraft II (Mac OS X version, completely disabled in Windows version)
- Starsiege: Tribes
- Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
- Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords
- Steel Storm
- StepMania
- Stronghold
- Team Fortress
- Team Fortress 2 (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
- The Sims 4 (Mac OS X version)
- Tibia
- Tomb Raider II (only new Mac OS X version, not the old Mac OS version)
- Tomb Raider III (old Mac OS version)
- Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (old Mac OS version)
- Tomb Raider Chronicles (old Mac OS version)
- Trainz
- Tribes 2
- Trine
- Trine 2
- Tux Racer
- Unreal Gold – Defaults to 3dfx Glide
- Unreal Tournament
- Unreal Tournament 2003
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Urban Terror
- Warcraft 3 - Defaults to D3D in Windows
- War Thunder - Defaults to D3D11 on Windows
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (Mac OS X and Linux version)
- Wolfenstein
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- Wolfenstein: The New Order
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
- World of Goo
- World of Warcraft - Defaults to D3D in Windows
- Worms 3D
- Worms Reloaded
- Wurm Online
- X-Plane
Open source games
Most open source games opt to use OpenGL (together with other portable libraries such as SDL) due to its portability. Just a few examples are:
- 0 A.D.
- AssaultCube
- AssaultCube: Reloaded
- Cube
- Cube 2: Sauerbraten
- GLtron
- GNUbik
- MegaGlest
- OpenArena
- Speed Dreams
- Teeworlds
- TORCS
- Tremulous
- Secret Maryo Chronicles
- Shadowgrounds (graphics and level editor are not open source)
- Shadowgrounds Survivor (graphics and level editor are not open source)
- SuperTux
- Warsow
- Warzone 2100
- Widelands
- Xonotic
- RandomWay
Applications
Some notable applications that include an OpenGL renderer:
- Adobe After Effects — a digital motion graphics and compositing software.
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS4 — a popular photo and graphics editing software.
- Adobe Premiere Pro — a real-time, timeline based video editing software application.
- ArtRage - traditional media painting software
- 3D Studio Max — modeling, animation and rendering package developed by Autodesk Media and Entertainment.
- Autodesk AutoCAD — 2D/3D CAD Developed by Autodesk Media and Entertainment.
- Autodesk Maya — modeling, animation, sculpting, and rendering package that uses its own scripting language, MEL. Developed by Autodesk Media and Entertainment.
- Blender — 3D CAD, animation and game engine.
- Cadence Allegro - Computer-aided design - Electronics.
- Celestia — 3D astronomy program.
- Dolphin (emulator) - Cross-platform GameCube/Wii emulator.
- Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC2) — G-code interpreter for CNC machines.
- Google Earth — Earth mapping software.
- Google SketchUp - easy to use 3D modeler.
- Houdini - modeling, animation, effects, rendering and compositing package developed by Side Effects Software.
- InVesalius - A cross platform software, visualization medical images and reconstruction.
- Kodi — A cross platform, open source media center.
- Really Slick Screensavers — 3D Screensavers.
- Rhinoceros — NURBS Modeling for Windows.
- SAP2000 — structural analysis program.
- Scilab — Mathematical tool, clone of MATLAB.
- SpaceEngine — Real and procedural 3D planetarium software.
- Stellarium — High quality night sky simulator.
- Universe Sandbox
- Vectorworks - cross-platform Mac/Windows 2D and 3D CAD for architectural & landscape design. Offers a Renderworks module based on the Maxon CineRender engine.
- Virtools — a real-time 3D engine.
- VirtualMec — 3D CAD for the Meccano construction system.
- Vizard - A platform for building and rendering enterprise and academic virtual reality applications developed by WorldViz.
- VSXu - Cross platform modular visual programming language engine for OpenGL