GDevelop

GDevelop 5.6.285

GDevelop: Free Game Development Tool Review

  • By GDevelop Team
  • Open Source
  • Updated Oct 21, 2026
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About GDevelop

GDevelop is a free, open-source game engine that's 10x easier and faster to use than anything else. Build from anywhere — even on your phone. Publish everywhere: iOS, Android, Steam, web, gaming platforms. Reach millions of players or create the next hit game you've been dreaming of.

What's new in 5.6.285

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💝 Improvements
- Report errors of store extensions in the 3D editor as crash reports
- Add an action to change the body type of 3D physics objects
- Add the ability to generate an invoice for purchase or subscription payments, from the GDevelop Profile
- Catch 3D editor not starting with a warning message and prevent crashes in 2D editor
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix unfocused variable fields displaying autocompletion
- Fix missing stencil buffer for the shared 3D renderer (Thanks snowyukitty!)
- Fix tile map instances leaking their geometries in the scene editor
- Fix tile map objects leaking their geometries and buffers when destroyed (Thanks @kenny-ish!)
- Fix "for each child variable" loops not displaying autocompletion
- Fix potential leak of GDevelop cloud session cookie to arbitrary hosts when opening a rogue project on desktop app (Thanks @carfeii!)
- Fix wrong spacing in the new effect dialog
- Fix CRT and Old film effects showing their noise on the whole screen
- Fix collision masks of Tiled image collection tiles being offset and partially ignored
⚙️ Extensions
- [Community][Foliage swaying 3D] Fix Three.js scaling and gradient consistency (v1.2.0)
🎨 Assets
- Update the direction of skyboxes packs 1 and 2 to be standard cube
- Add a 3D Scattered Models pack: forests, rocks and bushes for the 3D terrain
🕹 Premium Game Templates
- Add FSM framework by replay_zed
- Add Rubik's Cube, a 3D puzzle game by Bouh
- Add 3D Highway Crash, a fast-paced 3D highway destruction game by Woolley Studios

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Technical details

PublisherGDevelop Team
AuthorFlorian Rival
Version5.6.285
Release date2026-10-21
LicenseMIT
Installer typenullsoft
Architecturex64
Package IDGDevelop.GDevelop

Links & install command

Install GDevelop from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=GDevelop.GDevelop -e

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