This is the second game I've found out recently that is written in Lua. The first one one being - Beyond All Reason.

Beyond All Reason is a SpringTA fork (hack? build?) like Zero-K? So the underlying engine isn't Lua, but higher level scripting is. I'm pretty sure this is fairly common, or was once.

Other games with Lua scripting: Roblox, Baldur's Gate, Civilization VI, Crysis, Factorio, World of Warcraft, Far Cry, Leadwerks, Friday Night Funkin', Foldit, Garry's Mod, Aquaria, Balanced Annihilation, Bitfighter, Bos Wars, Cataclysm, CivCity: Rome, Civilization: Beyond Earth, Company of Heroes, Cortex Command, Counter-Strike 2D, Crimson Steam Pirates, Dota 2, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, Dungeons, Dungeons II, Dungeons III, Elven Legacy, Empire: Total War, Escape from Monkey Island, Eufloria, Exodus from the Earth, Angry Birds.

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remram a year ago | parent | next [-]

Here they are:

https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason

https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K

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gavmor a year ago | parent [-]

I can't recommend Zero-K enough. It plays like a dream. Super fun at all levels. Great 8v8 clashes of robots. Unbeatable price ($0). Great dev blogs.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/334920/ZeroK/

	▲	remram a year ago \| parent [-]
		The dev blogs: https://zero-k.info/mediawiki/Cold_Takes

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gautamcgoel a year ago | parent | prev [-]

Also Supreme Commander

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scambier a year ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Recently released, Moonring and Balatro are both written in Lua, and I think both with LÖVE.

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ramesh31 a year ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>This is the second game I've found out recently that is written in Lua. The first one one being - Beyond All Reason.

Lua is traditionally the scripting language of choice for game development. It was absolutely ubiquitous in the industry before the days of Unreal/Unity. Famously, all of the WoW UI was Lua.

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pansa2 a year ago | parent [-]

Yeah, this presentation by Roberto Ierusalimschy (one of Lua's three authors) lists over 50 games that use Lua (slide #9):

https://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/talks/curryon2017.pdf

	▲	fullstop a year ago \| parent [-]
		I am surprised that he did not include all of the Souls games, as they are hugely popular. Oddly enough, I learned that they used Lua by reading the license information which came with the game. I don't remember if it was on the back of the box or in an paper insert, but it surprised me to see it included for some reason.

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msephton a year ago | parent | prev | next [-]

YOYOZO, my game that received a "Best Games of 2023" accolade, was also written in Lua. It is only 39KB despite containing two music tracks, physics and particle systems, online high score board, dynamic sounds, two fonts, a tutorial and more. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372936

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ecshafer a year ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LOVE is a popular Lua game framework, so quite a few indie games are written in it.

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daneel_w a year ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most of Heroes of Newerth's in-game logic is written in Lua.

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nvlled a year ago | parent | prev [-]

Grim fandango too