Pygame version 2 was planned as "Pygame Reloaded" in 2009, but development and maintenance of Pygame completely stopped until the end of 2016 with version 1.9.1. After the release of version 1.9.5 in March 2019, development of a new version 2 was active on the roadmap.[11] Pygame 2.0 released on 28 October 2020, Pygame's 20th anniversary.[12] Pygame uses the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library,

