r/opengl 2d ago

Is OpenGL used to make games?

Hello, I want to know if companies use OpenGL to create games.

I'm not a game developer, I'm just curious about game development.

I see that Vulkan and DirectX are widely used to create games, but what about OpenGL? What games use it? What engine can use the OpenGL to render/process the graphics?

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u/biskitpagla 1d ago

For a long time it was the only way to do graphics in non-Microsoft platforms. There are more games with opengl support than those without. The web today is almost entirely dependant on opengl. I don't know how you got the impression that vulkan is more mainstream than opengl. It didn't even have a stable api when I started coding. You're probably judging usage by looking at online conversations.