Games Like LAB Engine

LAB Engine is a Vulkan deferred renderer and scene editor, developed solo and in the open. This is Early Access because LAB is being built the way its own documentation is written in public, with the known problems listed next to the finished features, not after them. What you get today is a real, working editor: you can drop in a mesh, light a scene, tune materials, script behavior, hit Play, and package a standalone build that runs without the editor. What's still being built is listed below, and it stays updated as things land.

What's in the engine today

Why Early Access

Because a rendering and editor codebase this size benefits from real use before it calls itself finished, and because the alternative building it in isolation and announcing it "done" is exactly the kind of claim this project's own docs argue against. The roadmap and the known-issues list are public in the repository, not just in marketing copy.

Who this is for, right now

Technical users comfortable with an engine that is still filling in gaps glTF import, a finished material graph editor, async asset loading rather than someone who wants a turnkey, feature-complete toolchain today. If you want to render scenes with real-time ray tracing that gracefully degrades on older hardware, script gameplay two different ways, and watch (or shape) an engine's roadmap directly, this is built for you.

System requirements at a glance

Windows 10/11 64-bit only. A Vulkan 1.2-capable GPU is the floor; a GPU with ray query

support (recent RTX/RDNA2-and-up cards) is what unlocks the ray-traced path everything

still renders correctly without one.

Full feature list, known issues and the public roadmap: