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 - Euro Truck Sim also includes a DirectX renderer
  • Alien Arena 2008
  • America's Army (Only Linux version)
  • Aquaria
  • Baldur's Gate 2 – Defaults to D3D
  • BZFlag
  • Bus Driver
  • City of Heroes
  • City of Villains
  • Call of Duty
  • Commandos
  • Cortex Command
  • Counter-Strike
  • Darwinia - Defaults to D3D
  • Deus Ex - Defaults to D3D
  • Doom 3
  • Dwarf Fortress
  • Earth 2150
  • EDuke32
  • Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  • Far Cry – Defaults to D3D
  • Frets On Fire
  • FlightGear
  • Half-Life 1
  • Hitman
  • Homeworld 2
  • IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
  • Keepsake
  • Neverball and Neverputt
  • Neverwinter Nights
  • Nexuiz
  • OpenArena
  • Penumbra: Overture
  • Prey
  • Quake series
  • Rage
  • Red Faction
  • Regnum Online
  • RuneScape - Uses the Java OpenGL library developed by Kenneth Bradley Russell and Christopher John Kline.
  • RuneScape HD
  • Savage: The Battle for Newerth
  • Savage 2: A Tortured Soul
  • Scorched 3D
  • Second Life
  • Serious Sam
  • Serious Sam 2 – Defaults to D3D
  • Soldier of Fortune series
  • Shogo: Mobile Armor Division (in the Linux, AmigaOS, and Mac OS X versions)
  • Ski-Doo X Team Racing
  • Spore
  • Spring
  • Starsiege: Tribes
  • 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
  • Stronghold
  • The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
  • TORCS
  • Trainz
  • Tribes 2
  • Tux Racer
  • Urban Terror
  • Unreal Gold – Defaults to 3dfx Glide
  • Unreal Tournament
  • Unreal Tournament 2004
  • Unreal Tournament 3 – Defaults to D3D in Windows
  • Warcraft 3 - Defaults to D3D in Windows
  • Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  • World of Warcraft - Defaults to D3D in Windows
  • Wurm Online
  • X-Plane

Applications

Some notable applications that include an OpenGL renderer:

  • Blender - 3D CAD, animation, and games engine.
  • Celestia - 3D Space simulator
  • Really Slick Screensavers - 3D Screensavers
  • Scilab - Mathematical tool, clone of MATLAB
  • 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
  • Adobe After Effects - a digital motion graphics and compositing software
  • Virtools - a real-time 3D engine
  • Googleearth - Earth mapping software
  • XBMC Media Center - A cross platform, open source media center.
  • True (True-World) A System Dynamics (SD) software using some OpenGl primitives to do Multibody Dynamics Simulation (MDS)