List of OpenGL programs

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
• 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
• 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
• Oil Rush
• OpenArena
• osu!
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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 games 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
• 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