Purchasing and Pricing information

The Cuttlefish Engine and all its sources are completely free to use. It is entirely OK to just take the free engine and build a game with it. The only thing we sell is the designer - the desktop application that you use to create your game. The designer is offered on a trial basis, and during the trial everything works exactly the same, except you can't build for device (in-simulator builds are fine).

Yep, that implies you'll need to have an internet connection. The designer communicates with the servers up here in Cuttlefish Orbital HQ, so if you're without connectivity, you'll be able to do everything except build for device.

To build for device, and eventually submit your game to the app store, you'll need to buy a subscription.

There are a couple of different kinds of subscriptions available.

Click through to see actual prices in your local currency!

Yearly Subscription

These allow you to generate code for unlimited devices an unlimited number of times, for one year, from date of purchase. The subscription is tied to your user account on this site, so no worries if you switch computers.

Subscriptions do not renew automatically! - auto-renew's a shady business practice, and we do not use it. We will send you an email shortly before your subscription is due to expire. Should your subscription lapse, you will not be able to build for device, but your game project data will be accessible and editable as normal.

Lifetime Subscription

This will definitely go away in the future, but for you early adopters out there, we're offering a lifetime subscription - this one-time payment means you'll flat out never pay anything again, even if later, as we grow, we add additional fees for functionality. This is a tremendous value if you really love what we're doing and are in it for the long haul!

Contributor Subscription

Time is money, so... if you can't give us money, we're willing to trade you a subscription in return for your time. Build something awesome! A set of templates, a substantial code contribution, a great sample game or tutorial... you decide, but once you've done it, let us know about it, and if it's worthy - that is, substantial, and useful - we'll grant you a year's subscription, completely free of charge! This is a one time only deal, might disappear at any time, and you only get one shot at it, and it'll probably go away in the future... but right now, since money from subscriptions is essentially all about making the engine better anyway, might as well cut out the middleman. If you can't think of something good to do, take it to the forums, and ask the veterans what's lacking.

Purchasing a subscription indicates that you have read and agree to all terms of the Cuttlefish License Agreement.

All of our subscriptions carry a 14-day, money back, no questions asked refund policy. After 14 days, subscriptions are non-refundable.