- The original form of this list is maintained by the Procedural Worlds team, authors of GAIA and GeNa at: http://www.procedural-worlds.com/blog/best-free-unity-assets-categorised-mega-list/. The duplication of that list here is simply to ensure its preservation. This copy of that list was curated by Zach Danz in the Summer of 2017
- Behavior Bricks : Behavior Bricks is a state-of-the-art engine for Behavior Trees (BTs) along with an intuitive visual editor.
- Crystal AI : A Utility based AI for C# and Unity.
- Goap : Goal oriented action planning AI in Unity.
- Panda BT Free : Panda BT is a script-based Behaviour Tree engine which allows the authoring of complex, scaleable and reusable logic for your game.
- TopDown AI : This is an example of Top Down Shooter AI.
- RAIN AI for Unity : An incredibly powerful path finding and behavior tree based AI plugin for Unity.
- Unity Movement AI : A library of steering behaviors to help your NPCs move around your game.
- Google Analytics Plugin : Allows game developers to easily implement Google Analytics in their Unity games on all platforms.
- Animation Baker : Converts Mecanim animations back to legacy animations.
- Animated Horse : Animated horse.
- Huge FBX Mocap Library part 1 : Conversion of the Carnegie-Mellon mocap library with 2,534 mocap animations.
- Huge FBX Mocap Library part 2 : Conversion of the Carnegie-Mellon mocap library with 2,534 mocap animations.
- Huge FBX Mocap Library part 3 : Conversion of the Carnegie-Mellon mocap library with 2,534 mocap animations.
- Magic Pack : 55 awesome magic animation from mixamo.
- Melee Axe Pack : 55 mixamo animations for axe-wielding, skull bashing, dragon slaying barbaric types.
- TakeDown Animations : 12 takedowns animations package.
- InAudio 2 : Add great audio to your game in seconds with the new layered music player with crossfading and gap-less transitions.
- Reaktion : An audio reactive animation toolkit for Unity.
- EZ Camera Shake : A versatile implementation of procedural camera-shaking animation.
- GhostFreeRoamCamera : Free flying ghost roaming camera, in a FPS style!
- RTS camera : Best free camera asset on the Unity asset store.
- Base Helicopter Controller : Helicopter controller with realistic physics.
- Helicopter Pack : Cool helicopter & physics systems
- Third Person Controller - Basic Locomotion FREE : Very high quality AAA Quality 3rd Person Controller with locomotion template.
- 3rd Person Controller + Fly Mode : This package provides a basic setup for a 3rd person player controller. Includes scripts for the player movements, camera orbit and a Mecanim animator controller, containing basic locomotion (walk, run, sprint, aim & strafe, and also an extra fly mode).
- SQLite4Unity3d : SQL Lite for Unity 3d.
- Console Enhanced Free : Console Enhanced Free is an improved editor console for Unity.
- Debug Panel : Extended Unity console.
- Log Viewer : Check editor console logs inside the game itself even on mobile.
- Resource Checker : Shows how much memory textures take to reduce memory usage.
- ShaderlabVS : Visual Studio Plugin for Unity Shaderlab programming.
- Unity Test Tools : Test your game with unit test framework, integration test framework, assertion component, ide, batch and test mode runners.
- VSCode : Seamless support for Microsoft Visual Studio Code in Unity.
- Inspector Gadgets Lite : Streamline your editor experience with this enhanced Transform Inspector.
- Weaver Lite : Directly reference assets and layers in your code without any magic strings and generate procedural assets in the Unity Editor.
- Screen Space Multiple Scattering : This is a replacement for Unity Fog - it is truly stunning!
- Entitas : The entity component framework for Unity. Entities, pools, groups, observers.
- Facepunch.Steamworks : A wrapper for Steamworks recommended by the community.
- SteamWorks : A C# Wrapper for Valve's Steamworks API, it can be used either with Unity or your C# based application.
- uFrame ECS Pro : A visual architecture and visual scripting tool based on the industry vetted entity-component-system. It has a very familiar feel to that of Unreal's blue-prints.
- uFrame Game Framework : An MVVM/MV* framework designed for the Unity Engine. It comes with a load of features including a graphing/diagramming engine that will generate code and even process some re-factoring.
- UniRx : A re-implementation of the .NET Reactive Extensions for Unity.
- UnitySteer : Awesome autonomous agent steering framework for Unity.
- Universe : A global persistent game manager that lasts across screens.
- Weaver Lite : Directly reference assets and layers in your code without any magic strings and generate procedural assets in the Unity Editor.
- Zenject : Awesome looking dependency injection / IOC framework.
- Fungus : Easy, branching story editor. Was used in a Unity presentation some time ago.
- InputBinder : Makes it easy for components to respond to axis, button, and key input events.
- Lean Touch : Multi-platform input library for gestures (both touch and mouse).
- LeapMotion : Leap motion development page and downloads.
- TouchKit : TouchKit aims to make touch handling in Unity more sane.
- TouchScript : TouchScript is a multi-touch library for Unity. Makes handling complex gesture interactions on touch surfaces easier.
- Inventory System : The Inventory System & Editor Extension is a complete Inventory, Item and Character Sheet solution providing loads of neatly organized and documented parameters allowing full customization of UI as well as gameplay features with little to no coding.
- Arcadia : Clojure for Unity.
- MoonSharp : Community recommended Lua interpreter written in C# for maximum compatibility.
- UniLua : Implementation of LUA for Unity.
- Cinema Themes 2 - Color Grading LUTS Library : Awesome set of free LUTS for your projects.
- Day and Night Cycle with Scattering And Movement : A simple day and night cycle system with moving clouds.
- Simple LUT Adjuster : Change colour lookup, hue, saturation, brightness, contrast and sharpness.
- Simple Light Probe Placer : A tool for helps you to easily place light probes in your scene.
- SpriteLights : Render thousands of Physically Based lights in a single batch.
- True Volumetric Lights (Open Source) : Its expensive perf wise - but the effect is just beautiful!
- Lean Localization : Simplifies localization.
- Simple Geometry Painter : A simple geometry painter
- Maze Generator : Generates complex non-cycled mazes with different algorithms.
- Mesh Baker Free : Combine meshes and textures to reduce draw calls.
- RealTime Painting : Real time mesh painting
- Vertex Painter : Free mesh painting asset from an industry pro
- Free Music Archive : It's not just free music; it's good music.
- FreeSound.org : Awesome searchable sound library.
- GameSounds.xyz : Massive royalty free audio collection.
- Julian Ray Sound Library : Over 400 sounds and growing.
- Laser Construction Kit : Sound effects pack with a lot of high-quality scifi sounds.
- Middle Age - Medieval Action Sound FX Pack : Medieval action sound FX pack.
- Retro Sound Effects : 500+ 8 bit audio sound effects for retro games.
- Sonniss GDC 2016 : Amazing sound sampler packs from Sonniss for GDC 2016.
- Sonniss GDC 2017 : Amazing sound sampler packs from Sonniss for GDC 2017.
- Unreleased Game Music Pack : Awesome music pack from a game that never got released.
- Photon Unity Networking Free : Easily add multiplayer to your games and launch them globally with the included FREE Photon Cloud plan.
- Unity HTTP : A TcpClient-based HTTP library for Unity.
- LibNoise : A port of the LibNoise framework for Unity. Great if you are doing procedural content generation.
- Elemental Free : 96 fantastic Shuriken particles that are categorized to 8 kinds of element.
- Fire and Spell Effects : Flamethrower, fireballs and meteor swarms and more.
- KY Magic Effects Free : This package includes 10 free magic game effects.
- Unity Particle Pack : Really awesome free particles from Unity.
- Aron Granbergs A* Pathfinding Project : One of the best path finding solutions for Unity.
- A Star Pathfinding for Unity : A* Pathfinder for Unity. It includes 3 axis path finding and multi-threading.
- AStart : Unity project for Lurendium tutorial about basics of a* pathfinding.
- OpenPath : An automated, very simple A* path finding package for Unity.
- ObjectPool : This script reduces garbage collection and therefore jitter by pooling instances.
- RecyclerKit - An object pooling system that is super easy to use from Prime31.
- Deferred Night Vision : AAA quality night vision effect if you're using deferred rendering.
- KinoGlitch : A collection of glitch video effects.
- KvantSpray : GPU accelerated object instancing/particle animation system for Unity. Very cool!
- Legacy Unity Cinematic Image Effects : Awesome Post FX. If using 5.5 and up use the Unity Post Processing Stack above instead.
- Legacy Image Effects : This package contains the Image Effects previously shipped as part of Unity's Standard Assets.
- Lightning Bolt Effect for Unity : Customizable lightning asset.
- Lux : Fantastic open source physically based shader framework for unity.
- Melee Weapon Trail : Add "swoosh" trail effects suitable for attacks of your characters.
- Post Processing Stack : Amazing Free and Fast Post Processing Stack from Unity. Must have for Unity 5.5 and up!
- Shader Case Study - Pokemon Battle Transitions : Video tutorial plus shaders.
- ShaderProject : All sorts of handy shaders - ApplyTexture, Blending, AdditiveBlending, AlphaBlending, CombineTextures, Dissolve, DiscardingFragments, FlatColor, FlatRGBColor, GeometryShaders, GrabPass, BlackWhite, Blur, GlassStained, Pixelation, PixelShifting, Tint, Zoom, Masks, AlphaMask, ColorMask, ColorAlphaMask, NormalExtrusion, NormalMapping, PostProcessing, BlackWhite, BlendModes, BrightnessSaturationContrast, DepthTexture, Overlay, Pixelation, Tint, RotationUV, RotationVertices, Shading, Diffuse, DiffuseLighting, Phong, Phong-Blinn, Silhuette, StencilBuffer, TextureAtlas, ToonShading, VertexManipulation, Flag, Scale, VolumetricExplosion, Water, Waves
- SMAA for Unity3D : Subpixel Morphological Antialiasing for Unity3D.
- Temporal Reprojection Anti-Aliasing : TRAA for Unity.
- Toon Shader Free : A free toon shader - render your 3d models in a toon style.
- Unity 5 Effects : Temporal screen space reflections, screen space shadows, screen space boolean, rim light, water surface and caustics, light particles, procedural modelling, metaball, temporal SSAO, mosaic field.
- UnityPCSS : Implementation of NVidia "PCSS" or "Percentage Closer Soft Shadows".
- EasyRoads3D Free : The free version of what is probably the best roads asset for Unity. Works well with with Gaia terrains.
- Simple Modular Street Kit : Snap together these assets to create roads in unity.
- Ikari Vertex Painter : Vertex painting on objects
- ProBuilder Basic : Building prototype levels easily.
- UPA Toolkit: Pixel Art Editor : Making Pixel Art inside Unity.
- FullSerializer : Easy to use and robust JSON serializer that just works.
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- Kode 80 Volumetric Clouds : Pretty amazing real time volumetric clouds.
- 8 Ocean HRDI's : A collection of 8 stunning ocean HDRI's for skyboxes.
- Free HDR Sky : Some sample 4k HDRI skyboxes.
- Sky5X One : A set of five free beautiful sky boxes.
- Unity HDRI Pack : This is a pack of 7 8192x4096 HDR images shot in different locations around the world.
- Spawner – Free : Very easy simple spawner system for unity.
- Generic Terrain Brushes : 35 Very handy terrain brushes. Useful for sculpting your terrain or painting textures.
- Procedural Cave Generator : Procedurally generate ready to use caves.
- Realistic Terrain Collection LITE : 5 textured high quality terrains, 6 textures, 2.5km x 2.5km.
- TextMesh Pro : The best text asset on the store.
- Free Seamless Textures : Free seamless textures
- Teilas Seamless Textures : More free and categorised textures.
- UnityBitmapDrawing : Bitmap Drawing API extension methods for the Texture2D class.
- Thread Ninja - Multi Threaded CoRoutines : This asset helps you write multi-thread co-routines.
- DOTween (HOTween v2) : A very nice tweening library optimised for C# and nicely integrated into Unity.
- LeanTween : An efficient tween engine for Unity that offers a many features.
- iTween PAID : Tweening for moving 3d objects
- Adam Exterior Environment : The Exterior environment from the Adam demo.
- Adventure - Sample Game : Explore the makings of a point-and-click adventure game, complete with simple inventory system and data persistence examples with this fully-commented complete project, as used to teach Unite 2016's Training Day.
- Space Shooter Tutorial : Space Shooter tutorial Project on Unity's Tutorial area.
- Tanks Tutorial : This 2 player 1 keyboard couch warfest sees you building a complete tank shooter from scratch.
- The Blacksmith Environments : All environment assets from “The Blacksmith” short film.
- Vehicle Tools : Sample project tools to rig wheeled vehicles and easily create suspension for physics-based wheel colliders.
- 2D Platformer : Showcasing 2D features a platform shooter demo.
- 2D Roguelike : Learn how to make a 2D Roguelike game.
- Unity UI Extensions : Extension project for the new Unity UI system.
- NGUI PAID : Next Gen UI
- Autosaver : Editor extension that allows for auto-saving your work.
- BitStrap : A bunch of handy utilities that allow you to bootstrap a new Unity project.
- Door Manager Script : A handy script to open and close doors in game.
- FrameCapturer : Captures frames to pictures and videos. Supports png, gif, mp4, exr.
- Instant Screenshot : Handy screen shot taking system.
- Klak : Noise, random numbers, interpolation, extensions, image writer, procedural motion, event wiring.
- LINQ to Game Object for Unity : Traverse GameObject Hierarchy by LINQ.
- More Effective Coroutines : Memory Efficient Coroutines is an improved implementation of the standard co routines that runs blazing fast and has zero per-frame memory allocations.
- Random Duplicate : A utility to duplicate an object with random size and rotation.
- Previously Paid : A collection of previosly commercial unity assets.
- Secured PlayerPrefs : Encrypt/decrypt PlayerPrefs.
- Simple Finite State Machine : State machine designed with simplicity and ease of use in mind.
- Tiny Lab Productions Library : Awesome collection of utilities. Android utils, bitmap, promises, futures, co-routine helpers, alloc free iterators, extensions, json parser / emitter, oprion, lazy, tupe, try, unit and many more useful utilities. Well worth a look!
- Unity Color Picker : A color picker for Unity.
- Unity3D-ComponentAttribute : An attribute that let's you auto-load components.
- Unity Toolbag : A bunch of handy Unity extension utilities. Very handy.
- Zone Controller Free : Allows you to control the properties of ANY other Unity component at runtime. Create stunning and smooth transition effects on your favorite Unity components with just a few clicks. Very powerful!
- Google VR SDK for Unity : Build virtual reality applications for Android and iOS using the Google VR SDK for Unity.
- HoloToolkit-Unity : A collection of scripts and components to accelerate development of applications targeting Windows Holographic.
- Project Tango UnitySDK Examples : the Project Tango UnitySDK examples and tutorial projects for Unity 5 and above.
- SteamVR Plugin : The Steam VR plugin for Unity.
- Steam VR Unity Toolkit : A collection of useful scripts and prefabs for building SteamVR titles in Unity 5.
- The Lab Renderer : The scripts and shaders that drove rendering in The Lab for HTC Vive. Forward renderer with support for up to 18 dynamic shadowing lights in a single pass with MSAA enabled, and it included the Adaptive Quality system that dynamically adjusts rendering resolution to maintain framerate in VR.
- Newton VR : A virtual reality interaction system for unity based on physics.
- VRTK : Virtual reality scripting toolkit, a collection of useful scripts and prefabs for building VR titles in Unity 5.
- VR Samples : VR Samples from Unity.
- Behavior Bricks : Behavior Bricks is a state-of-the-art engine for Behavior Trees (BTs) along with an intuitive visual editor.
- Panda BT Free : Panda BT is a script-based Behaviour Tree engine which allows the authoring of complex, scaleable and reusable logic for your game.
- uScript Personal Learning Edition : uScript is a fully featured visual scripting system developed by industry veterans of award-winning "AAA" games.
- Olanders Realistic Weather : Very high quality weather system from a quality developer.
- Super Powers Asset Packs : Asset packs for medieval, fantasy, ninja, prehistory, space shooters, top down shooters etc.
- CraftPix Freebie Assets : Awesome collection of beautiful 2D spritesheets and backgrounds.
- Blacksmith : A small but quality sample from the Village Exteriors Kit.
- Cactus Pack : Pack of desert plants and rocks with hand-painted, atlased textures.
- Destroyed City FREE : Post apocalyptic city construction site.
- Free SciFi Fighter : Beautiful spaceship fighter model.
- Free Rocks : Add realistic rocks to your game.
- Industrial Objects Pack : 20 industrial props.
- Low Poly Free Pack : This pack includes a selection of 52 models from the huge and ever growing Low Poly: Full Pack!
- Make Your Fantasy Game Lite : 60+ assets to create your own cemetery scene.
- Man in a Suit : As the name implies textured and ready for Mecanim.
- MCS Female : Free MCS female character.
- MCS Female Sci-Fi Bundle 01 : A bundle of sci-fi content compatible with MCS Female Lite.
- MCS Male : Free MCS male character.
- MCS Male Wood Elf Scout : A a selection of fantasy content compatible with MCS Male Lite.
- Mini Mike’s Mini Metros : An urban collection of over 400 low poly models for building a small city.
- Modern Russian Assault Rifle : Nice looking assault rifle.
- Modern Weapons Pack : Some excellent free weapons for your fps shooter.
- Modular Building Pack : Over 100 low poly modular building blocks.
- MYFG - Weapon Pack Lite : 20 Medieval/Fantasy weapons
- Nature Starter Kit 1 : Start creating outdoor scenes, including a simple grass texture, 4 rocks and a tree.
- Nature Starter Kit 2 : Create your own forests and meadows with this free asset pack!
- Planet Earth Free : The #1 Planet Earth Package.
- Rocks & Boulders : A free rocks and boulders pack from one of the best modellers on the store.
- Rock and Boulders 2 : Another free rock and boulders pack from Manufactura K4.
- Sci Fi Officer Captain : Mecanim ready.
- Simple Town Lite : A low poly asset pack of vehicles, buildings and props to create an urban city based game.
- Stylized Simple Cartoon City : A pack of stylized buildings, trees, bushes, cars, military vehicles, planes (including military), characters (with animations) and props.
- Survival Starter Kit Vol1 : 40 props and weapons.
- Town Houses Pack : Collection of highly detailed low-poly 3d buildings.
- Unity-chan! : Lovely toon model from Unity.
- UMA 2 : Really brilliant humanoid avatar system.
- Watercraft Pack : Various ships, boats and other watercraft.