Download Stride

The Freedom to Create Your Own Game

Your Next Game Engine

Stride is a powerful, open-source 2D and 3D cross-platform game engine. It's free to use, modify, and distribute under the permissive MIT license.

Your Freedom with Stride

  • Use Stride for any purpose
  • Distribute Stride however you like
  • Dive into Stride's workings and modify it to suit your needs
  • Share or distribute your modified versions of Stride
Note: The installer download is approximately 55 MB. This file will be downloaded directly from our GitHub main repository.

Having doubts on how to install it?

Check the installation guide!

Get Started with Stride

Before you download, make sure to check the system requirements for Stride. Ready to dive in? View the most recent changes in our release notes.

Frequently asked questions

Stride currently supports Windows. Support for Android, iOS, Linux and macOS are in experimental state. Stride also supports most popular VR devices.

See the Stride features page, the Stride documentation, the Stride blog, and the Stride release notes. If you can't find what you're looking for, ask on the Stride GitHub discussions.

No. Xenko 3.x and Stride 4+ are covered by MIT license.

Stride is open-source, highly modular, and super-versatile. You can use it to create PC and VR games, or as a high-end rendering engine for applications such as training simulations or architecture and engineering software.

Yes. You own all the content you make with Stride.

For more answers, see our dedicated FAQ page.