This is a list of notable games, gaming engines, and arcade or game-console emulators that make use of Simple DirectMedia Layer

Simple DirectMedia Layer

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform, free and open source multimedia library written in C that presents a simple interface to various platforms' graphics, sound, and input devices....

 (SDL), a cross-platform software library abstracts platforms' graphics, sound, and input APIs, allowing a developer to write a computer game or other multimedia application once and run it on many operating systems.

List of games using SDL

• AssaultCube
  AssaultCube
  AssaultCube is a free multiplayer first-person shooter game, based on the CUBE engine. It takes place in realistic environments, with fast, arcade gameplay...
  
  
• Aleph One
• Battle for Wesnoth
  Battle for Wesnoth
  The Battle for Wesnoth, or simply Wesnoth, is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy setting, designed by David White and first released in June 2003. In Wesnoth, the player attempts to build a powerful army by controlling villages and defeating enemies for experience. White based Wesnoth...
  
  
• Blast Miner
• Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid
• Blob Wars: Blob And Conquer
• BZFlag
  BZFlag
  BZFlag is a free, open source, online multiplayer video game.A first-person tank battle game, similar in concept to Battlezone, it was originally written by Chris Schoeneman for SGI graphics workstations running IRIX, but has now been ported to other operating systems including...
  
  
• Cube
• Cube 2: Sauerbraten
• C-Dogs SDL
  C-Dogs
  C-Dogs, the sequel to Cyberdogs, is a DOS arcade shoot-em-up which allows players to work co-operatively during missions, and against each other in "dogfight" death-match mode....
  
  
• D1X
• D2X
• Dominions
  Dominions II
  Dominions II: The Ascension Wars is a 4X turn-based, computer strategy game. It was developed by Illwinter Game Design and published by Shrapnel Games. The game was released on November 14, 2003 in North America for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux....
  
  
• Dwarf Fortress
  Dwarf Fortress
  Slaves to Armok: God of Blood, Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress, also called Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress, but most commonly known simply as Dwarf Fortress, is a freeware computer game by Bay 12 Games for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X set in a high fantasy universe that combines aspects of...
  
  
• Exult
  Exult
  Exult is a free software reimplementation of the Ultima VII game engine. It enables play of Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle, and their corresponding expansion disks Forge of Virtue and Silver Seed, on modern machines. In order to play these games, data files from the...
  
  
• Freeciv
  Freeciv
  Freeciv is a multiplayer , turn-based strategy game for workstations and personal computers inspired by the commercial proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series...
  
  
• Frozen Bubble
  Frozen Bubble
  Frozen Bubble is a free software Puzzle Bobble style computer game which is available on several operating systems including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, the Symbian Series 60, Windows Phone 7 and Android line of smartphones...
  
  
• GLTron
  GLtron
  GLtron is an open source computer game based on the light cycle portion of the movie Tron. It is released under the GNU General Public License and is available on multiple platforms.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• H-Craft Championship
  H-Craft Championship
  H-Craft Championship is a science fiction racing game developed by independent game studio Irrgheist. A Russian version of the game was later released by Akella...
  
  
• Hedgewars
  Hedgewars
  Hedgewars is a turn-based free and open-source strategy game, artillery game, skill game. It is cross-platform and runs on FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Android. It features a single-player mission/tutorial mode, in addition to multi-team multiplayer gameplay...
  
  
• Hopkins FBI
  Hopkins FBI
  Hopkins FBI is a 1998 point-and-click adventure game from MP Entertainment, most famous for very large amounts of gore.Players assume the role of FBI agent Hopkins, who is on the trail of a criminal mastermind named Bernie Berckson...
  
  
• Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb
  Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb
  Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb is a computer game, developed by The Dreamers Guild and published by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing....
  
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• Lugaru
  Lugaru
  Lugaru: The Rabbit's Foot is the first commercial video game created by Wolfire Games. It is a cross-platform, 3D action game for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. It features Turner, an anthropomorphic rabbit with curiously well-developed combat skills.Lugaru was made almost solely by...
  
  
• Neverwinter Nights
  Neverwinter Nights
  Neverwinter Nights , produced by BioWare and published by Infogrames , is a third-person perspective computer role-playing game that is based on third edition Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms rules. It was originally to be published by Interplay Entertainment, but the publisher's financial...
  
  
• Nexuiz
  Nexuiz
  Nexuiz is a free first-person shooter video game developed and published by Alientrap Software. It is free and open-source software and is distributed under the GNU General Public License . Version 1.0 of the game was released on May 31, 2005. The current version, 2.5.2, was released on October 1,...
  
  
• OOlite
  Oolite (computer game)
  Oolite is a free and open source 3D Space trading and combat simulator in the spirit of Elite. It is, as the name suggests, Object Oriented [E]lite, written in Objective-C. Among Oolite's several similarities to its inspirational source, the gaming experience is enhanced by the context set in...
  
  
• OpenTTD
  OpenTTD
  OpenTTD is an open source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It is an "urban planning and simulation game" in which the player aims to earn money through transportation of passengers and freight by land, water and air.OpenTTD duplicates most of...
  
  
• OpenTyrian
• Overgrowth
  Overgrowth
  Overgrowth is an upcoming action video game under development by Wolfire Games. It was announced on September 17, 2008. for all three major computer platforms: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux....
  
  
• Penumbra: Overture
  Penumbra: Overture
  Penumbra: Overture is the first in a series of episodic first-person adventure games developed by Swedish developer Frictional Games. It was originally intended as the first episode of a trilogy. With the announcement of the second episode, Penumbra: Black Plague, it was stated that the second game...
  
  
• Penumbra: Black Plague
  Penumbra: Black Plague
  Penumbra: Black Plague is the second installment of the Penumbra series of episodic computer games developed by Swedish developer Frictional Games. The story continues from the previous episode, Penumbra: Overture, showing the protagonist Philip moving away from the abandoned mine setting of the...
  
  
• Penumbra: Requiem
  Penumbra: Requiem
  Penumbra: Requiem is an expansion pack to the game Penumbra: Black Plague by Frictional Games.- Gameplay :Like the previous games, Requiem is an exploration-based adventure game that takes place from a first-person perspective and final installment of the main series...
  
  
• Pontifex II
• Project: Starfighter
• Secret Maryo Chronicles
  Secret Maryo Chronicles
  Secret Maryo Chronicles is a free, open source two-dimensional platform game. It was developed and is maintained by the Secret Maryo Chronicles development team, led by Florian Richter ....
  
  
• Second Life
  Second Life
  Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab. It was launched on June 23, 2003. A number of free client programs, or Viewers, enable Second Life users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars...
  
  
• Simutrans
  Simutrans
  Simutrans is a cross-platform simulation game in which the player strives to run a successful transport system by transporting goods, passengers, and mail between places. Along with OpenTTD, Simutrans is an open source remake of Transport Tycoon...
  
  
• The Ur-Quan Masters
  Star Control II
  Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is a critically acclaimed science fiction computer game, the second game in the Star Control trilogy. It was developed by Toys for Bob and originally published by Accolade in 1992 for PC; it was later ported to the 3DO with an enhanced multimedia presentation,...
  
  
• Stepmania
  StepMania
  StepMania is an open source and cross-platform rhythm video game and engine. It was originally developed as a simulator of Konami's arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution, and has since evolved into an extensible rhythm game engine capable of supporting a wide variety of rhythm-based game types...
  
  
• Super Tux
• TD-Morpion
• Teeworlds
  Teeworlds
  Teeworlds is a free open source fast-paced sidescrolling multiplayer-only computer game. The game features simple cartoon-themed graphics and physics, and relies heavily on classic shooter weaponry and gameplay. The controls are heavily inspired by the First-person shooter genre of computer games...
  
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• The Powder Toy
• Tile World
• Tux Paint
  Tux Paint
  Tux Paint is a free and open source bitmap graphics editor geared towards young children. The project was started in 2002 by Bill Kendrick who continues to maintain and improve it, with help from numerous volunteers...
  
  
• World of Goo
  World of Goo
  World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle game by 2D Boy, an independent game developer consisting of Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, both former Electronic Arts employees, released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, Android and WiiWare...
  
  
• Wormux
  Wormux
  WarMUX is a free and open-source game in the genre of "turn-based artillery games" like Scorched Earth or Worms. The project was started in December 2002 by Lawrence Azzoug Moy as Wormux, and was renamed to Warmux in November 2010...
  
  

Games which use SDL for the Linux version only

• Civilization: Call to Power
  Civilization: Call to Power
  Civilization: Call to Power is a PC turn-based strategy game developed by Activision as a successor to the extremely successful Civilization computer game by Sid Meier. It was ported to Linux by Loki Software....
  
  
• Descent³
  Descent³
  Descent 3 is the third game in the line of Descent computer games, well known for the use of six degrees of freedom and true 3D rendering technology....
  
  
• Doom 3
  Doom 3
  Doom 3 is a science fiction horror video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. An example of the first-person shooter genre, Doom 3 was first released for Microsoft Windows on August 3, 2004. The game was later adapted for Linux, as well as being ported by Aspyr Media for Mac...
  
  
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (ET:QW)
  Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a first-person shooter video game, and is the follow-up to the 2005 title Quake 4. It is also the first game in the series to be rated T by the ESRB...
  
  
• FreeSpace 2
• Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²
  Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²
  Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.² is a third-person shooter video game made by Ritual Entertainment in 2000. A sequel to the Heavy Metal 2000 animated movie, the game stars Julie in her quest to save her home planet of Eden from GITH, an ancient entity seeking to conquer the universe...
  
  
• Heretic II
  Heretic II
  Heretic II is a fantasy action-adventure game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision in 1998 continuing the story of Corvus, the main character from its predecessor, Heretic....
  
  
• Heroes of Might and Magic III
• Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
  Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
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• Myth II
• Quake 4
  Quake 4
  Quake 4 is the fourth title in the series of Quake first-person shooter computer games. The game was developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. Raven Software has collaborated with id Software, the creators and historical developers of preceding Quake games...
  
  
• Rune
  Rune (computer game)
  Rune is a third-person action computer game developed by Human Head Studios which was released in late 2000. The game is based on Norse mythology, showing the conflict between the gods Odin and Loki and the build up to Ragnarok, the end of the world...
  
  
• Rune: Halls of Valhalla
  Rune: Halls of Valhalla
  Rune: Halls of Valhalla is a multiplayer-only expansion to the computer game Rune.It features many new characters to choose from, thirty three new maps, and most prominently: two completely new game modes....
  
  
• Shadowgrounds
  Shadowgrounds
  Shadowgrounds is a shoot 'em up for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, developed by Frozenbyte. The game takes place on a space colony on Ganymede which is being attacked by aliens...
  
  
• Shadowgrounds: Survivor
• Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
  Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
  Shogo: Mobile Armor Division is a first person shooter video game released by Monolith Productions in 1998. It was the first game to use Monolith's flagship Lithtech engine. It has heavy influences from Japanese anime, particularly Patlabor, Appleseed, and the various Gundam series...
  
  
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
  Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
  Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is the critically acclaimed science fiction 4X turn-based strategy video game sequel to the Civilization series. Sid Meier, designer of Civilization, and Brian Reynolds, designer of Civilization II, developed Alpha Centauri after they left MicroProse to join the newly...
  
  
• Sim City 3000
• Simutrans
  Simutrans
  Simutrans is a cross-platform simulation game in which the player strives to run a successful transport system by transporting goods, passengers, and mail between places. Along with OpenTTD, Simutrans is an open source remake of Transport Tycoon...
  
  
• Soldier of Fortune
• Unreal Tournament
  Unreal Tournament
  Unreal Tournament is a futuristic first-person shooter video game co-developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. It was published in 1999 by GT Interactive. Retrospectively, the game has also been referred to as UT99 or UT Classic to differentiate it from its numbered sequels...
  
  
• Unreal Tournament 2003
  Unreal Tournament 2003
  Unreal Tournament 2003 or UT2003 is a first-person shooter video game designed mainly for multiplayer gaming. The game is part of the Unreal franchise's series of games, and is a sequel to Unreal Tournament ....
  
  
• Unreal Tournament 2004
  Unreal Tournament 2004
  Unreal Tournament 2004, also known as UT2K4 and UT2004, is a futuristic first-person shooter computer game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes...
  
  

Gaming engines which use SDL

• DOSBox
  DOSBox
  DOSBox is emulator software that emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS. It is intended especially for use with old PC games. DOSBox is free software....
  
  
• DOSEMU
  DOSEMU
  DOSEMU, alternatively rendered dosemu, is a compatibility layer software package that enables MS-DOS systems, DOS clones such as FreeDOS, and DOS software to run under Linux on x86-based PCs ....
  
  v1.4.0
• Exult
  Exult
  Exult is a free software reimplementation of the Ultima VII game engine. It enables play of Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle, and their corresponding expansion disks Forge of Virtue and Silver Seed, on modern machines. In order to play these games, data files from the...
  
  – a free and open source software reimplementation of the Ultima VII game engine. It enables play of Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle, and their corresponding expansion disks Forge of Virtue and Silver Seed, on modern machines.
• ScummVM
  ScummVM
  ScummVM is a collection of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system , it now also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus...
  
  
• pygame
  Pygame
  Pygame is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games.It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language...
  
  
• Verge (Vecna's Extraordinary Roleplaying Game Engine) http://verge-rpg.com/
• Doomsday Engine
• PrBoom (DOOM port)
• MegaZeux
  MegaZeux
  MegaZeux, or MZX, is a game creation system inspired by Tim Sweeney/Epic Megagames' classic shareware game ZZT. MegaZeux was created in late 1994 by Gregory Janson, who formed his own company, Software Visions...
  
  

Arcade and game-console emulators which use SDL

• DGen – an emulator for Sega Genesis (Mega Drive).
• FCE Ultra
  FCE Ultra
  FCEUX is an open source Nintendo Entertainment System and Family Computer Disk System emulator. It is a merger of various forks of FCE Ultra.-Multiplayer support:...
  
  – an emulator of Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and the Famicom Disk System.
• Gens
  Gens (Emulator)
  Gens is a free Sega Genesis emulator. It runs on Windows systems , on Linux and on Microsoft's Xbox. A port to the Sega Dreamcast, known as Gens4All, is currently in development. Development of Gens began in 1999...
  
  – a Sega Genesis emulator.
• Hatari – an emulator of the Atari ST computer system.
• MAME
  MAME
  MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten...
  
  – SDLMAME is an SDL-based port of MAME
  MAME
  MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten...
  
   (MAME is an "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" emulator).
• Mednafen – multi-system emulator supporting Atari Lynx, Game Boy (including Color and Advance revisions), Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), PC Engine, SuperGrafx, PC-FX, WonderSwan, and WonderSwan Color.
• Mupen64 – Mupen64 (Multi Platform Emulator for the N64) is an emulator for the Nintendo 64.
• NeoCD
  NeoCD
  NeoCD is a Neo Geo CD emulator, written by Fabrice Martinez. It features full sound emulation, playback of the Red Book music tracks, and support of both joysticks.-Source ports:-Emulation:...
  
  – a Neo Geo CD emulator.
• Stella
  Stella (emulator)
  Stella is an emulator for the Atari 2600 game console, and takes its name from the console's codename. It is open source, and runs on most major modern platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Windows CE/Mobile, Dreamcast, GP2X, Nintendo DS, and Wii. Stella was originally written in 1996 by...
  
  – an emulator for the Atari 2600.
• VisualBoyAdvance (VBA)
  VisualBoyAdvance
  VisualBoyAdvance is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles....
  
  – emulator for the Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo.
• Yabause – an emulator for the Sega Saturn.
• ZSNES
  ZSNES
  ZSNES is a free software SNES emulator written mostly in x86 assembly with official ports for Linux, MS-DOS, Mac OS X, Windows and an unofficial port for Xbox.-Background:...
  
  – an emulator of the Super Famicom and SNES video game systems.