Cheat Engine

Cheat Engine
Original authorEric "Dark Byte" Heijnen
DeveloperCommunity
Initial release2000
Stable release
7.6 / 12 February 2025
Written inObject Pascal (Object Pascal is used for the UI), and C (C is used for the Driver, DBVM And DBVM UEFI), Assembly (DBVM UEFI And DBVM)
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Linux (Wine, Server/Client for Linux processes)
Available in6 languages
List of languages
English, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan)
TypeReverse engineering, debugging, disassembler
LicenseProprietary
Websitecheatengine.org
Repository

Cheat Engine (CE) is a memory scanner/debugger created by Eric Heijnen ("Byte, Dark") for the Windows operating system in 2000. Cheat Engine is mostly used for cheating in computer games and is sometimes modified and recompiled to support new games. It searches for values input by the user with a wide variety of options that allow the user to find and sort through the computer's memory. Cheat Engine can also create standalone trainers that can operate independently of Cheat Engine, often found on user forums or at the request of another user.