No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pygame has 2.8M monthly downloads and 9K GitHub stars. Version 2.6.1 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2016.
It is minimally maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Sep 2024.
It is used by 1,425 tracked packages, including kaggle-environments, dopamine-rl and speculos.
GitHub topics include pygame, sdl2 and sdl.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 371 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
85
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
274 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,843,066
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
2,843,066
Stars
8,838
Stars per 1k downloads
3.11
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
89,476
Month daily avg
94,769
Momentum
-5.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
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
645 days ago
Total releases
69
Releases/year
6.9
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
311
Monthly downloads
2,843,066
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
80
Issue Burden
74.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
371d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
45.8K
Windows
21.7K
macOS
2.4K
Python Versions
3.12
36.8%
24.0K
3.11
19.2%
12.5K
3.10
18.2%
11.8K
3.13
16.5%
10.7K
3.14
9.4%
6.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
39.6K
US
2.
CN
6.2K
CN
3.
IN
3.1K
IN
4.
SG
2.6K
SG
5.
GB
1.4K
GB
6.
DE
1.3K
DE
7.
JP
1.2K
JP
8.
SE
1.2K
SE
9.
BR
1.0K
BR
10.
RU
946
RU
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
1425
- kaggle-environments
- dopamine-rl
- speculos
- android-env
- pygpt-net
- gym-pusht
- tf-agents-nightly
- mo-gymnasium
- pyorbbecsdk2
- nubrain
- agilerl
- highway-env
- bscommon
- craftax
- gym-hil
- pydotbot
- fudstop
- tf-agents
- blokus-rl
- gway
- aiden3drenderer
- rlmesh
- agt-server
- bluer-sbc
- pygame-menu
- platform-lander
- globe-server
- ajpack
- abogen
- outetts
- pysc2
- vertexengine
- katrain
- pynds
- metadrive-simulator
- opencastor
- yta-multimedia
- pytablericons
- desklab
- scenic
- 2d-animation-lib
- beatcraft
- corebitengine
- freegenius
- hns-maze
- masa-safe-rl
- mlgame
- donatellopyzza
- model-railway-signals
- bark-ml
Package Information
License
LGPL
First Release
July 15, 2016
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
9 months ago
Latest Version
2.6.1
Total Releases
69
Contributors
311
Open PRs
121
Archived
No
Author
A community project.
Python Versions
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp2510
pp259
pp27
pp3510
pp36
pp37
pp38
pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh