Godot 4
Godot 4 — Custom cursor recipe
Drop-in GDScript snippet that loads a 16x16 PNG, sets it as the system cursor, and wires up per-state textures.
Game-Engine Cursor Recipes
Copy-paste cursor code for every major game engine — Godot, Unity, Unreal, Phaser, PixiJS, Three.js, Defold, LOVE2D, SDL2, raylib, PICO-8, MonoGame, and more.
Godot 3.5
Godot 3.5 — Custom cursor recipe
GDScript 3.x version of the cursor recipe. API is the same, just the GDScript syntax differs slightly.
Unity 2022/2023
Unity — Custom cursor controller
MonoBehaviour that swaps the system cursor on hover, click, and drag using the Cursor.SetCursor API.
Unity
Unity — FPS cursor lock and hide
Standard cursor lock pattern for first-person games. Locks on play, releases on Escape.
Unreal Engine 5
Unreal 5 — Custom cursor via UMG widget
UE5 expects custom cursors as UMG widgets. Build a tiny Image-only widget and assign it via Project Settings or PlayerController.
Phaser 3
Phaser 3 — Custom cursor recipe
Phaser exposes setDefaultCursor() on the input manager. Same CSS cursor URL syntax as the rest of the web.
PixiJS
PixiJS — Custom cursor recipe
Pixi forwards the .cursor property of the topmost interactive DisplayObject to the canvas's CSS cursor.
Three.js
Three.js — Custom cursor on the renderer
Three.js's renderer.domElement is a regular <canvas>; set its style.cursor with CSS.
Defold
Defold — Custom cursor recipe
Defold's cursor module supports per-platform custom cursors. PNG-based, with explicit hotspot.
LOVE2D
LOVE2D — Custom cursor recipe
LOVE's mouse module ships everything you need: load image, create cursor, set it.
SDL2
SDL2 — Custom cursor recipe
Load a PNG with SDL_image, build an SDL_Cursor with SDL_CreateColorCursor, set it.
raylib
raylib — Custom cursor recipe
Hide the OS cursor and DrawTextureV your sprite each frame. The simplest possible custom-cursor pattern.
PICO-8
PICO-8 — Custom cursor recipe
PICO-8's mouse is opt-in via a memory poke; draw your own cursor sprite each frame.
Phaser 2 / CE
Phaser 2 (CE) — Custom cursor recipe
For legacy Phaser 2 / CE projects, set the canvas's CSS cursor directly through the game.canvas.style API.
SFML
SFML — Custom cursor recipe
SFML 2.5+ ships sf::Cursor with system and pixel-data constructors.
MonoGame
MonoGame — Custom cursor recipe
MonoGame exposes Mouse.SetCursor with a MouseCursor created from a Texture2D.