Popular games built on game engine Java

A turn-based tactical Dungeon-delving game with perma-death. Each run can help you find blueprints or new armor to aid you in the caves.

Starsector is a game of space combat, fleet management, trade, and role-playing. Pilot a ship and command a fleet through intense tactical combat while exploring, trading, battling, and leveling-up in an open-ended sandbox campaign set in a lost sector of the galaxy. Explore distant star systems. Trade goods and loyalty among competing factions. Beware of ruthless pirates while evading tariff patrols. Assemble your fleet for trade or battle while upgrading and modify your starships, then fight your enemies! Forge your destiny and steer the fate of the human race 6000 light-years from Old Earth.

Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the game. The game's open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations, and artwork on various multiplayer servers or their single-player maps. Other features include redstone circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts and tracks, and a mysterious underworld called the Nether. A designated but completely optional goal of the game is to travel to a dimension called the End, and defeat the ender dragon.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, a massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die?

Play chess online with millions of players around the world! Enjoy free unlimited games and improve your chess rating with 50,000+ tactics puzzles, interactive lessons and videos, and a powerful computer opponent. Unlock your inner chess master today!

Explore a dangerous island filled with dungeons, and defeat the eight archangels to bring order to a glitched-out kingdom in this top-down Zelda-like action-adventure game. Playable in 8-bit and 32-bit pixel art styles! Features - Team up with a friend. Make peace with Shadow Lenna to enjoy the game in local co-op multiplayer! - Play again (and again). With two graphical styles, multiple endings, multiple boss forms, and procedural generation, you won’t see everything in a single playthrough! - Challenge yourself. Speed through the daily challenge dungeon with no sword, with only three hearts, or without taking a single hit. Show off a GIF of your playthrough on the connected leaderboard afterwards! - Recruit companions. Will you choose Henrietta, the free-range chicken with a vendetta, or perhaps Gourdon, the sentient pumpkin? (4 to discover)

Age of History II is a grand strategy wargame that is simple to learn yet hard to master. Your objective is to use military tactics and cunning diplomacy to either unify the world, or conquer it. Will the world bleed out or bow before you? The choice is yours..

Bounce Tales is a classic mobile platformer game originally developed by Nokia for their Java (J2ME) phones. The game stars a small red bouncing ball that you control through different colorful levels filled with traps, puzzles, enemies, and moving platforms. Your main mission is to navigate through increasingly challenging stages, solve simple puzzles, avoid obstacles, and defeat enemies while keeping the ball alive. The controls are simple — move left, right, and bounce — but the game becomes tricky as you progress.

TibiaME is a mobile RPG multiplayer online based on the MMORPG game Tibia.

Asphalt 3: Street Rules is a racing video game by Gameloft Shanghai that was released in 2006 on Java-based mobile phones. It is the first mobile game to be played at the World Cyber Games competition. It was the first in the series not to be released for the Nintendo DS.

Betrayal is the only installment in the series to be released on a non-PlayStation platform and presented as a 2D side-scrolling game. Despite the limitations of the mobile platform, in comparison to its home console counterparts, it retains the action-oriented approach of its predecessors, with the same combination of combo-based combat, platforming, and puzzle game elements. Although God of War is primarily a home console series, Betrayal was praised for its fidelity to the series in terms of gameplay, art style, and graphics: "the real deal third game in the killer franchise". It received awards for "Wireless Game of the Month" (June 2007) and "Best Platform Game" (wireless) of 2007.

Players control one of five customizable aircraft and battle in teams across 2D landscapes. As a player gains experience in battle they unlock new planes and customizations called perks.

Just like its Game Boy predecessors, Rayman 3 is mostly a traditional side-scrolling platformer. The main goal is to reach the end of a level, but there are various items to collect which all count towards the 100% completion. Some of those items can only be collected by re-visiting the level with additional abilities which are learned during the course of the game. Additionally there are two 3D mini games involving jet skiing and kart racing.

Strategy-RPG developed by Qplaze and published by RME for mobile phone, which released in 2006. It is a second game in Age of Heroes series.

Five Nights at Freddy's - Pocket Horror is a FNaFangame, reimagining the first game of the franchise as a 90's Game Boy/Game Boy Color release. Or you can just call it a "demake".

Forge is a Magic The: Gathering simulator with multiplayer, singleplayer and adventure modes. It runs on java and is available for Windows and Android.

FreeCol is a 4X video game, a clone of Sid Meier's Colonization. FreeCol is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License v2. FreeCol is mostly programmed in Java and should thus be platform-independent.

The Lost Levels of Jak and Daxter was a java-based web browser game. The legend was that it was the original vision of the Jak and Daxter series, or at least The Precursor Legacy, developed by Gil Acheron in the 1990s and was previously unpublished.

EFootball 2026 by Felix pro is a mobile game for Java and J2ME Loader. is realised in 2026 by Asaba Jumah.

Twin Tiger Shark is a tribute to arcade vertical shoot-'em-ups, released for OUYA and Xbox 360 (via Indie games store)

This is a collection of puzzles and crosswords made by Aenigmatica, a brand of La Settimana Enigmistica, one of the first and most important magazines in Italy. This game takes place in ancient egypt inside a pyramid. The player has to solve some crosswords and puzzles to advance to the next level.

Take a load off your mind with Built to Scale Solitaire, a uniquely designed card game about building a musical scale, inspired by Zachtronics' solitaire games.