No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pygame-ce has 572K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.5.7 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2023.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is used by 193 tracked packages, including minigrid, pygame-gui and vizdoom.
GitHub topics include game-dev, game-development and gamedev.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 122 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
68
Adoption
67
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
572,392
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
572,392
Stars
1,562
Stars per 1k downloads
2.73
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
•
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
18,435
Month daily avg
19,080
Momentum
-3.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
LGPL v2.1
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
•
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
127 days ago
Total releases
34
Releases/year
10.0
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
125
Monthly downloads
572,392
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
71
Issue Burden
194.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
50.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
122d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
6.8K
Windows
3.7K
macOS
665
Python Versions
3.14
31.5%
3.5K
3.12
29.9%
3.3K
3.13
16.8%
1.9K
3.11
14.8%
1.7K
3.10
7.0%
778
Top Countries
1.
US
6.5K
US
2.
CN
499
CN
3.
SG
483
SG
4.
IN
449
IN
5.
RU
354
RU
6.
JP
298
JP
7.
IE
273
IE
8.
DE
240
DE
9.
BR
212
BR
10.
NL
168
NL
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
193
- minigrid
- pygame-gui
- vizdoom
- nav-sim2d
- miniworlds
- tilemap-editor
- tilemap-parser
- easypygamewidgets
- mpe2
- chambercourt
- vertexengine
- skyport-engine
- scenic
- pygame-menu-ce
- hypercrystal
- pgturbo
- mimyo
- pyrddlgym
- pygame-topdownengine
- verifai
- npfl138
- jovialengine
- clawd-buddy
- spych
- npfl139
- batframework
- pygameextra
- tuiman
- cmu-graphics
- patternengine
- pygamenu
- vertex2d
- playpy
- pygamextras
- gif-pygame
- mxbiflow
- nodezator
- skelform-pygame
- pygamejr
- linpg
- calapy
- pygess-py
- zombie-escape
- nextrpg
- fusion-engine
- pgaa
- pygames-simplified
- pg-extended
- callai-rpg
- pycessingame
Package Information
License
LGPL v2.1
First Release
February 9, 2023
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
2.5.7
Total Releases
34
Contributors
125
Open PRs
89
Archived
No
Author
A community project
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp311
pp38
pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh