Free for non-commercial use

Working on a personal or educational project? You're welcome to use the Basic Edition for as long as you want.

If you want to sell, use in a commercial product, or otherwise profit from a work containing World Machine output you will need to buy one of our full licenses.

Fully featured

This is not a time limited trial! You get the same toolset as the Indie Edition. In short: erosion and water simulation, layouts, PBR materials, the node graph and every export format. Take the full tour of what you can do with WM.

The one limit is output size: no asset larger than 1025x1025 pixels. See the license feature grid.

Windows, macOS & Linux

World Machine runs natively on:

• Windows 10+
• macOS 13.3 Ventura+
• Linux: glibc 2.34+ (Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL/Rocky 9)

Recommended specifications

• Modern x86 AMD or Intel CPU with AVX2 support
• Discrete GPU with 8GB VRAM
• 16 GB system RAM minimum

Full of Examples

Use our examples and other content to get started on your own worlds.

• Includes a 9 part beginner tutorial series
• 100+ browsable example worlds
• Use any builtins or presets in your worlds