bevyengine/bevy

A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

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2.3 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

Bevy is an open-source data-driven game engine written in Rust, built on the Entity Component System paradigm with 2D and 3D support. It is in early development, with breaking API changes roughly every 3 months.

Useful for

Build a 2D game in Rust by running the breakout example via cargo run --example breakout
Create a windowed app with Bevy by adding DefaultPlugins
Study the engine's examples to learn the ECS approach

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

16 stars so far today, about 20 expected by the end of the day.
Over the last two days the pace is 1.6× that of the previous week and a half.
GitHub Trending Rust today: #17, +54 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 48,267
Stars in a day: 20
Forks: 4,846
Issues and pull requests: 23,775
Watchers: 320
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v0.20.0-rc.1 · September 15, 2026
Created: January 18, 2020
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #13, +54 stars
September 17, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #13, +21 stars

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