# Stride (open-source gaming app)

> Stride is a free, open-source gaming app for Windows. Stride (formerly Xenko), a free and open-source cross-platform C# game engine. It has 7,846 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. Its source code is on GitHub at stride3d/stride.

Stride is an open-source C# game engine designed for realistic rendering and VR. Highly modular, it aims to give game makers more flexibility in their development. Stride comes with an editor, Game Studio, which allows you to create and manage the content of your games or applications visually and intuitively. To learn more about Stride, visit stride3d.net.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/stride3d/stride |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 7,846 |
| License | MIT (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | C# |
| Website | https://stride3d.net |
| Official | no |
| Category | Gaming & emulation |
| Latest release | releases/4.3.0.2507 (Nov 22, 2025) |
| Last commit | Oct 8, 2026 |

## Install

Download a build for your system from the project's releases (https://github.com/stride3d/stride/releases) or website, or build it from source by following the README.

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