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
• America's Army (Mac OS X and Linux versions)
• American McGee's Alice
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
• Angry Birds
• Aquaria
• Arkanoid: Space Ball
• Baldur's Gate 2 – Defaults to D3D
• Brink
• BZFlag
• Bus Driver
• Celestia
• City of Heroes
• City of Villains
• Call of Duty (series)
• Commandos
• Cortex Command
• Counter-Strike
• Darwinia - Defaults to D3D
• Deus Ex - Defaults to D3D
• Doom 3
• Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
• Droid Assault
• Dwarf Fortress
• Earth 2150
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
• Far Cry – Defaults to D3D
• Frets On Fire
• FlightGear
• FooBilliard
• Half-Life series
• Half-Life 2 series (Mac OS X versions)
• Heretic II
• Heroes of Newerth
• Hexen II
• Hitman
• Homeworld 2
• Hotei's Jewels: Relax
• IL-2 Sturmovik
• Keepsake
• Left 4 Dead (Mac OS X version)
• Left 4 Dead 2 (Mac OS X version)
• Max Payne
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Spearhead
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Breakthrough
• Minecraft
• Neverball and Neverputt
• Neverwinter Nights
• Nexuiz
• OpenArena
• osu!
• Pacific Fighters [1]
• Penumbra: Overture
• Penumbra: Black Plague
• Penumbra: Requiem
• Performous
• Portal (Mac OS X version)
• Portal 2 (Mac OS X version)
• Prey
• Quake series
• Rage
• Red Faction
• Regnum Online
• 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
• Soldier of Fortune series
• Shogo: Mobile Armor Division (in the Linux, AmigaOS, and Mac OS X versions)
• Ski-Doo X Team Racing
• Spore
• Spring
• StarCraft II (Mac OS X version)
• 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
• Steel Storm
• StepMania
• Stronghold
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
• Team Fortress
• Team Fortress 2 (Mac OS X versions)
• Tibia
• Titan Attacks
• Trainz
• Tribes 2
• Tux Racer
• Ultratron
• Universe Sandbox
• Unreal Gold – Defaults to 3dfx Glide
• Unreal Tournament
• Unreal Tournament 2003
• Unreal Tournament 2004
• Urban Terror
• Warcraft 3 - Defaults to D3D in Windows
• Wolfenstein
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
• World of Goo
• World of Warcraft - Defaults to D3D in Windows
• 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:

• Cube
• Cube 2: Sauerbraten
• GLtron
• GNUbik
• OpenArena
• Nexuiz
• Speed Dreams
• 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
• Warzone 2100

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 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.
• Celestia — 3D astronomy program.
• Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC2) — G-code interpreter for CNC machines.
• FurMark — OpenGL benchmark and graphics card stability test.
• 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.
• Really Slick Screensavers — 3D Screensavers.
• Rhinoceros — NURBS Modeling for Windows.
• SAP2000 — structural analysis program.
• Scilab — Mathematical tool, clone of MATLAB.
• Punch! Shark FX — NURBS based Surface and Volume Modeling for Mac OS X and Windows.
• Stellarium — High quality night sky simulator.
• Universe Sandbox
• Virtools — a real-time 3D engine.
• XBMC Media Center — A cross platform, open source media center.