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What are the best 3D C# game engines?

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Best 3D C# game engines	Price	Desktop targets	Mobile targets
90 Stride	Free	Windows, OSX, Linux	Windows Phone, iOS, Android
89 Unity 3D	Free+	Windows; OSX; Linux;	Windows Phone; iOS; Android; BlackBerry 10; Tizen
75 Godot	-	-	-
-- CryEngine	-	Windows, Linux	iOS, Android
-- Unreal Engine 4 with Mono for Unreal Engine	-	Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SteamOs, HTML5	iOS, Android

Stride

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Free and open source

Top Con

Community is still relatively small

The community is still relatively small. Tutorials are not as abundant as with other engines. See More

NicusorN5's Experience

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Specs

Desktop targets:Windows, OSX, Linux

Mobile targets:Windows Phone, iOS, Android

Dev platforms:Windows

Top Pro

Uses original .NET Core runtime

This means every .NET/C# library works natively with this engine. See More

Top Con

Editor is Windows only

Since version 1.7, Linux can be targeted for runtime. The editor for the engine is available only to Windows though. See More

FascinatingAdrasteia's Experience

Easy to start with, 100% c#, Can use nuget and it's blazingly fast for a C# game engine See More

Top Pro

Projects are normal Visual Studio solutions

No proprietary project format, so it works with all the official .NET tooling. See More

Top Con

Few online tutorials

SincereWaygl's Experience

Currently building from source is buggy and unstable. See More

Top Pro

Optimized And Good-Looking Graphics

Top Con

Does not currently support Playstation or Switch games

ClassyHybris's Experience

Pure C#, no magic layers around it. See More

Top Pro

Good looking and fast

Looking nearly as good as Unreal Engine 4, but rendering significantly faster. See More

Top Con

No terrain editor

Unless you like working on planes, there is no terrain support. See More

ReceptiveCharon's Experience

I've done some small projects with it. See More

Top Pro

Straightforward editor

Stride provides a simple and clean working environment for designing games. See More

Top Con

Iteration may be slower than with other engines due to longer "build" times when certain changes are made

WiseNgalyod's Experience

Great engine with clean C# and excellent rendering. See More

Top Pro

Engine AND Scripting are both C#

Since the engine is written in the same language as the scripting, there is no weird mix of technologies as other engines have. See More

Top Pro

Visual Studio integration

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Easy and fast iterations with graphics

Adding an effect or shaders is easy and fast. See More

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Lots of features that will make VR development go smoother

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Fastest close to Native performance compared to UE4 and Unity

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Supports .NET 6 and C# 10 from version 4.1

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Powerful 3D Rendering Engine

Supports Vulkan. You can achieve good quality as in Unity3d and Unreal Engine. See More

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Easy to learn and use C#

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Community seems friendly and is growing

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No royalties or licensing fees

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Supports Vulkan

Currently the only well known open-source game engine that supports Vulkan, and probably one of the only. See More

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Very modern render engine

9 Other Options Considered

Unity 3D

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Great editor

The editor GUI is very powerful and intuitive. It allows pausing gameplay and manipulating the scene at any time as well as progress gameplay frame by frame. It also has powerful asset management and attribute inspection. This allows it to be more powerful than other, simpler drag-and-drop engines such as Game Maker Studio, although it can take a bit more experience to learn the workflow. See More

Top Con

Closed source

Pretty much you're at the mercy of the developers. Wherever they decide to take the engine you must follow. See More

CaringPariacaca's Experience

Unity will now charge you 0.20$ for every installation of your game. Gamers buy your game once, but you have to pay Unity 0.20$ each time they (re)install it. Lifelong. Plus monthly subscription fees if you need/are forced to use Unity Pro. See More

Specs

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux;

Mobile targets:Windows Phone; iOS; Android; BlackBerry 10; Tizen

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Console targets:Xbox 360; Xbox One; Wii U; PlayStation 3; PlayStation 4; PlayStation Vita; Nintendo Switch; Nintendo 3DS

Top Pro

Versatile

Can be used for projects of any size. Anything from basic mobile games to big blockbuster triple-A titles. See More

Top Con

Development is not so multiplatform

Currently, development environment is available only for Windows and Mac OS X, but Unity Technologies is already working on a Linux version of the Unity Editor. See More

IntuitiveMaetsill's Experience

Huge amount of legacy cruft, ranging from outdated graphics to inconsistent scripting to Monobehaviours. See More

Top Pro

Usable for small and large projects

Games have been made in Unity at all levels of the Video Game industry. If you want to make games, this is a great engine to learn. Learning Unity will teach you the basics for any engine, and if you want to get a job at a big studio, there is a chance that you will be working on this engine there as well. See More

Top Con

The official documentation isn't the best

Many video "tutorials" for new users, only explain the basic functions of Unity as they relate to the engine itself. None of them actually show you 'how' to do something, just what is possible in the UI. This makes it rather difficult for a new user to understand the program, and get started. See More

BrightKisin's Experience

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Great community

Great Community support through Forums and Unity Answers. See More

Top Con

Moderators on forums are sometimes arrogant

PopularNilus's Experience

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Top Pro

Easy to learn

It is one of the biggest and best tools available, and there are a lot of tutorials available to help learn how to make great games. Even without knowing how to program, there are assets in the Asset Store that can help you by allowing linking scripts inside the game engine. See More

Top Con

Most knowledge acquired by using Unity is applicable only to Unity

Unity3D uses a unique approach for doing things, most of the knowledge acquired while using it is completely non-transferable to other engines. See More

Top Pro

Works with 3rd party IDEs

3rd party IDEs, like Visual Studio, can be used to write code for Unity. See More

Top Con

Obsolete garbage collector

Unity3D still uses the Boehm GC collector from the late 1990s. This is incredibly obsolete and results in periodic long world freezes when handling prolonged scenes in games, resulting in stutter. See More

Top Pro

Can be used for free

As long as the development company makes $100k or less, it can use the free version of Unity to release games. See More

Top Con

Adds too many features without fixing earlier issues, rapidly increasing number of bugs that will never get fixed

Unity continues to add many new features without fixing earlier issues. Unity is either understaffed, overambitious, or both, resulting in a continual increase of problems and degraded experience across a number of platforms. Many bugs are reported daily and never get addressed, and there are many bugs from previous versions that are never looked at or fixed. See More

Top Pro

Easy learning curve

The way the editor is structured, by setting scripts on objects, and the use of a high-level language, C#, makes it easy to learn. See More

Top Con

Encourages bad coding practices

A lot of Unity code feels like a hacked blur of arguable coding practices. C# and .Net usage in Unity is questionable. A lot of the API is done in "C Style" (public static methods, available at all times), encouraging the use of public fields for everything, a lot of questionable implicit casting. The list goes on. See More

Top Pro

Art Asset pipeline supports a lot of tools

Assets can be imported from many different formats including .FBX, .OBJ, .Blend, and .Max. See More

Top Con

Hard to maintain projects due to vendor lock

Unity3D is proprietary, closed source game engine. Unity asks money for features like basic version control support, etc. It is impossible to migrate a game from Unity3D in case performance does not satisfy growing requirements of a project. See More

Top Pro

Very popular

Unity is a proven game engine. It is used by a wide range of developers - from small indies to triple-A companies such as Microsoft, Paradox, Square Enix and Sega. See More

Top Con

Very bad terrain

Native terrain creates a lot of draw calls which is bad for performance. See More

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Has awesome plugins

Top Con

Weak memory management

.Net libraries are slowing it down, memory safety is compromised, classes have to be implemented to manage objects in memory, like object pooling. See More

Top Pro

Over 20 platforms

Unity offers over 20 platforms for publishing including mobile, console, web, VR, and more. See More

Top Con

Garbage collection can't be turned off

Given the use of C#, the memory control is out of the developers control, this can be good, but not controlling memory means that the garbage collector can trigger at any time and ruin performance. See More

Top Pro

Has a great animation system

Unity provides a great state machine animation system called Mechanim allowing to separate animation from the model and assign the same animoations to different models. See More

Top Con

Very self-centered engine

Unity3D uses very unique approach for doing things. Most of the knowledge acquired while using it, would be completely non transferable to other engines. Advanced Unity3D programming is really dealing with Unity3D bugs, and finding loopholes around engine issues - nothing to do with graphics, etc. Skills which would be valuable with other engines. See More

Top Pro

Powerful standard shaders

The built in standard shader in Unity 5 is incredibly optimized and supports PBS/PBR. See More

Top Con

Bad batching support

Draw Call Batching is done automatically and does not include Skinned Renderers (eg. characters). Also for dynamic batching, meshes need to have less than 900 vertices. See More

Top Pro

Very optimized

Unity runs very smoothly even on systems that are considered "weak" by today's standards. See More

Top Con

Price is very high

Cost is based on Revenue: less than $100K = Free between $100K and 200K = $35 a month per seat greater thank 200K = $125 a month per seat See More

Top Pro

Can create custom forms and tools

Top Con

Asset bundles can be cumbersome

Asset bundles are a way to load external resources that are not packed with the game or application and offered as a separate, optional package. However, they may not be compatible between versions or even platforms (you have to create them separately). Asset bundles need to be loaded and unloaded, avoid concurrent loads from web or cache or a naming collision can happen. You can find workarounds with static objects (load obj files and textures by code), but for animated game objects you are pretty much stuck with this. See More

Top Pro

Offers choice of scripting languages

Unity provides a selection of programming languages depending on preference or knowledge. C# (CSharp) is arguably the most powerful, while JavaScript has the widest selection of tutorials. It should be noted that it's probably best to avoid Boo (a flavor of Python). See More

Top Con

Never fixes bugs

Top Pro

As of Unity 5 all engine features are free for everyone

As long as the company makes $100k or less, Unity's free version can be used to release games without purchasing the pro version. See More

Top Con

Increasing number of bugs

With each new version things may stop working ,for example with Android, some bugs are never getting fixed, like the freeze bug with adb. See More

Top Pro

Royalty-free, one-time licensing fee

Once a license is bought, there are no additional costs that need to be taken into consideration. See More

Top Con

Asset store is required to replace engine functionality

You will need to, for example, buy an input manager asset off their asset store in order to replace their own terrible inaccessible input manager. See More

Top Pro

Provides access to a huge list of assets through Asset Store

For those developers who can't afford an artist, or aren't skilled enough to create their own art, Unity features an Asset Store full of a wide variety of free and paid assets that can be easily added to a game. The Asset Store has more than just music and art. It also has code and modules that can be added to games including unique lighting or GUI systems. It also has powerful asset management and attribute inspection. See More

Top Con

Dark UI theme not available in the free version

Dark theme, which is a must for prolonged work without eye strain, is only available with one of the paid monthly plans. See More

Top Pro

Flexibility is provided by a strong component programming model

Top Con

Crappy user interface

Crappy user interface that makes it hard to read text and easily navigate and find things. They need to hire a User Experience Architect and Designer to modernize the UI and make it more appealing and easier to use. See More

Top Pro

Free for mobile development

Unity allows free mobile development. There are some limitations. See More

Top Con

Mobile builds (Android, iOS) take about 8MB at least

Even a blank project needs 8mb for the .apk file (on Android). See More

Top Pro

Allows for rapid prototyping

Unity's modular system and usability allows for quickly developing a prototype of an idea. It has features like drag & drop editing, shaders, animation and other systems already in place to allow diving right into developing a game. See More

Top Con

Comparatively high learning curve

Although C#, JS, and Boo have documentation available online, it could still be difficult to wrap your head around the library and Unity's component based system. You need to have a good understanding of vector maths and physics to play around with 3D game objects. See More

Top Pro

Lots of resources to learn from

Unity3D provides an exhaustive documentation where everything is given a full description supplied by a number of examples as well as video and text tutorials and live training sessions to understand the ins and outs of the engine. In addition there's an ever-growing community that can offer advice to help resolve any situations that may arise. Along with the official Unity resources, there are many high quality (and often free) third party tutorials available. See More

Top Con

New il2cpp script backend is show stopper to some iOS projects

Il2cpp script backend is required to build arm64 app, but it's still very buggy and not production ready. See More

Top Pro

Well structured

Overall, a coherent engine with a rational approach. People who complain a lot about being forced to hack around it usually do not read the docs, like the one that describe orders of execution, or specific functions hooks and such. Some like to say it lacks raw power where people who are used to standard optimizations have no problem. For example It is not uncommon to encounter users who complain about low FPS but forgot to activate occlusion, flag static elements, activate animations culling, and so on. As for complaints about C#, people who are transitioning from C++ were already bad at C++ before being bad at C#. They often come from the PC world where the sheer power of today's machines is very forgiving compared to the platforms we had to develop for in the 80s~90s. One of their errors is for example to never read this doc. See More

Top Con

Docs have inconsistent choice of scripting languages

Top Pro

OUYA support

Top Con

Fixed editor small font size

There's no way to change it, except blurred OS Windows scaling. See More

Godot

Top Pro

Can be deployed to multiple platforms

Deploy games to desktops (Windows/OS X/Linux), smartphones (iOS/Android/BlackBerry), and the web (HTML5 via Emscripten). See More

Top Con

Tileset management could be more efficient

The tileset creation and management is lacking common features found in more developed tileset managers. However, it features support for Tiled - the only downside being that it is an external program. See More

SincereWaygl's Experience

Efficient, small binary with most modern features such as PBR+GI, Drag+drop UI, xplat and high level networking. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Android

Popular Language Bindings:GDScript, C#, C++

Top Pro

Free and open source

Godot is licensed under MIT license. Anyone can grab the source from here and compile the engine themselves. See More

Top Con

Difficult to optimize

Godot has an OOP architecture. Everything is an object internally and data is spread among many classes, thus it's difficult to optimize (i.e. not cache friendly, difficuly to vectorize or paralellize, etc). Read about "Data Oriented Design" for more info about the problems and solutions. See More

CuriousUkko's Experience

Godot does seems really powerful in terms of working with 2D it has made it self batter than unity by adding C# support in godot. Just think about a powerful 2D game engine that is batter that Unity, Gamemaker and Unreal in terms of 2D supporting C# for users who doesn't know how to program in Gdscript is full game changer. See More

Top Pro

Really good community

The community is great and really cares about the engine. It is easy to get help and to be part of Godot's future. See More

Top Con

Not really a C# engine

It supports its own version of C#, but not the official one. See More

ThoroughEnmesarra's Experience

At first glance, this is a very promising engine, but it isn't suitable for big projects (especially in 3D). Reimporting assets take a significant amount of time, and importing from Blender is a big problem, as it is very difficult to import models, fully animated, without something going wrong. As a Unity user, setting up C# was fairly cumbersome, and eventually, I had to learn to use GDscript. Apart from a few other things that can definitely be improved upon, it is a good engine, but I wouldn't recommend it for a big game. See More

Top Pro

Fun to use

An important aspect that can't be grasped without using the engine for a few days. The Interface is evolving nicely and making games is just fun. See More

Top Con

Hard for a Unity user

Coming from a Unity background, Godot engine is hard. See More

Top Pro

Built-in physics

Add physics to 2D and 3D scenes, through rigid and static bodies, characters, raycasts, vehicles and more. See More

Top Con

No console targets

Given that you can target both desktops and consoles with the same code base in other engines, the lack of support for consoles in Godot is pretty hard to get past if targeting desktops for a game. But asking for an open-source engine to target consoles is probably too much to ask. But it would be interesting to see some legacy consoles targeted even if current ones cannot be. See More

Top Pro

Easy to learn scripting language

Godot has their own scripting language called GDscript. The scripting language is easy to learn with python-like format, but it is not python. More like a mix of Javascript, PHP, C++. It's very powerful, easy to learn, and it's free of unnecessary things because it's designed for this purpose. It can be used to add custom behaviors to any object by extending it with scripting, using the built-in editor with syntax highlighting and code completion. A built-in debugger with breakpoints and stepping can be used and graphs for possible bottlenecks can be checked. See More

Top Con

Very bad documentation

The documentation is poorly written, and has very few examples of real application and even fewer design guidelines about how to program a game in the engine. Though it has gotten better starting from version 3.0. See More

Top Pro

Unified game editor interface

All the game developing work is done inside one program: the engine editor. This feature is something only high end engines have. Even the scripting is done in the same program. No need for Eclipse or other front end editors. See More

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Lightweight

The executable is portable and less than 40 MB in size. See More

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Internationalization of the editor

You can change the language shown in menus. Godot translations list. See More

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Fully dedicated 2D engine, no hacks

Godot has a mature 2D engine with many features used by modern 2D games. See More

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Under constant development

This engine barely released one year ago has more than 1000 forks on github and about 100 developers. Not only that. Also, just a bit of browsing through issues you will quickly find out the dev community loves new, especially free, technology and does not shy away from completely rewriting parts of the engine. The audio engine is being completely rewritten to use threads and so on. See More

Top Pro

Integrated animation editor

Every property can be animated. See More

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Editor and runtime are fully cross-platform

You can run Godot on all 3 major operating systems (Windows/Mac/Linux) and build your game to all available platforms from each without any platform-specific work needed. All platforms including Linux are supported first class. See More

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Creating editor tools is a breeze

Godot Engine is like a game itself. By adding the "tool" keyword to the top of a script, you can design extensions for the editor itself INSIDE the editor. Integrating these editor scripts into a bundled plugin for sharing is extremely easy to do. See More

Top Pro

Friendly towards Version Control Systems

The engine is build not only to support version control but to really use it. Scene files for example which usually get compiled into some sort of unreadable data stay in a text format - that way you can actually see your changes in a version control system like Git. See More

Top Pro

User friendly UI for all your team

Non-programmers (musicians, artists, etc) can join the development easily. See More

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Simple and readable codebase

The engine's source code is easy to read and understand with a self-documenting approach to code design. You don't have to wait months or years for other people to fix an engine bug that is important to your game. Often times, you can spend an hour or two of your own time to fix whatever problems you encounter yourself. See More

Top Pro

Instancing and node concept makes sense

The node and the instancing concept work very well and helps developers to structure content efficiently. See More

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Drag & drop interface

Many parts of the editor allow you to drag & drop, which makes working with assets and scene trees a joy. See More

CryEngine

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Hard to develop games other than FPS

Cryengine is a great engine to be used for developing an FPS (and it's relatively easy to do so). But if you want to develop another type of game, it requires at least advanced knowledge of C++ and Visual Studio. See More

Top Pro

Disallows bad practices in asset creation

Simply by looking at the RC log when exporting can greatly improve your work. Cryengine doesn't handhold you constantly and helps greatly with avoiding bad practices in asset creation. See More

Specs

Desktop targets:Windows, Linux

Mobile targets:iOS, Android

Dev platforms:Windows

Console targets:Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch

Top Con

Steep learning curve

Except for basic FPS games getting anything done will require solid knowledge of C++, Flash, ActionScript and Lua. See More

Top Pro

All platforms, including next-gen consoles, are supported

Supports miltiple platforms including: Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, Wii U, PC, iOS, and Android. See More

Top Con

No Mac OS X support

Top Pro

DX12, Vulkan support

CryEngine 5.4 now supports DX12 and Vulkan See More

Top Con

Restrictive license

Cryengine is not restrictive anymore just more personalized. The model is Pay what you want and if you want more you get a membership with them. Or private support, help and lessons directly from the CryEngine team. See More

Top Pro

C# integration

CryEngine has some C#template and also C# based system to write your function/ideas in to your game. See More

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Dedicated channel for Q&A

Crytek has launched a dedicated Q&A forum for everything Cryengine related. It's called Cryengine Answers and it's a community dedicated to sharing and answering any question related to Cryengine. See More

Top Pro

Dynamic water rendering

Cry Engine has realistic water effects that even simulate ocean physics. Features such as waves that respond to global wind, and dynamic water volume tessellation allow for some of the most realistic water effects available to a game developer. The engine also takes into account LOD (level of detail) on water geometry to allow it to stay performant for water at a distance. See More

Top Pro

Features allowing for realistic weather effects

Cry Engine has volumetric fog rendering which allows for realistic cloud shadows that actually render shadows onto the fog itself. Combined with their time of day system, it's possible to create incredibly realistic weather effects. On top of this, color grading allows user to post process pallets allowing them to change the color tone for different type weather, such as using a deep dark blue for rain. See More

Top Pro

Versatile flow diagram script model

Flow graphs resemble flowcharts where each box represents a function or value, with connections between them representing program flow. This provides a better at-a-glance indication of game logic than a simple list of events, and makes complex behaviors easier to accomplish. See More

Top Pro

There is already a built-in AI

It can shoot, walk on patrol points, can see the player and so on. See More

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VR support

Cryengine (starting on Cryengine V) has Virtual Reality support. Developers can create games with VR support for multiple platforms: PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. See More

Top Pro

Online marketplace available

The Cryengine marketplace is an online marketplace which enables developers to access and use individual assets from thousands of materials, sounds and 3D objects created by the community. Even Crytek's own library assets are available there. See More

Top Pro

Pay what you want payment model

Crytek has announced that beginning with Cryengine V, they will adapt a "Pay what you want" business model. This way the offer game developers everywhere total access to all of the engine's features and services for a price of their choosing. Plus they will have no obligation to pay royalties or additional fees for select services. Developers who decide to make a contribution to Cryengine can choose to allocate up to 70% of that contribution to Crytek's new Indie Development Fund which is a grant program that will help support promising indie developers with their projects around the world. See More

Top Pro

Advanced volumetric cloud system

Cryengine has an optimized volumetric cloud system for Virtual Reality to give clouds full 3D spatial rendering. This ensures a high rendering quality with a minimal performance hit. See More

Top Pro

Realistic rendering of vegetation and landscapes

Where Cry Engine really shines is with rendering scenes of nature. The Crysis games feature incredibly detailed vegetation and weather effects and it's the Cry Engine that enables that. The engine has many features to create a cohesive realistic looking world. Dynamic water effects allow users to have beautiful oceans, fog and cloud effects allow for realistic weather, and a plethora of lighting effects optimized for natural looking scenes make Cry Engine one of the best engines for creating vast beautiful landscapes. By having all these features built together from the ground up, Cry Engine is capable of doing more complex effects more efficiently, than other engines that didn't have these effects planned from their inception. See More

Unreal Engine 4 with Mono for Unreal Engine

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Well-designed User Interface

Way better than Unity's. See More

Top Con

Poor documentation

Most of the "documentation" for code is actually just automatically generated from the source. If you're interested in knowing how things are supposed to work, you must either go to their answers site or pay for UDN. Often their examples won't even compile, since they were written for now outdated versions. See More

IntelligentDemeter's Experience

Very good engine but Mono support isn't finished yet See More

Specs

Desktop targets:Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SteamOs, HTML5

Mobile targets:iOS, Android

Console targets:PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Top Pro

Lots of tutorials available

Top Con

Extremely long build times

Making a full rebuild, including engine can take a good 30 minutes. If you plan to use Unreal professionally, you better get some licenses for Incredibuild as well. See More

Top Pro

Very stable, well-established platform

Top Con

Slow

Compared to other engines, UE4 seems to perform various actions considerably slower. Actions like starting the engine, opening the editor, opening a project, rebuilding shaders, updating references, calculating lightmaps, saving projects, etc take long enough to get irritating and end up wasting precious development time. See More

Top Con

Very high build size

A blank project will build in to a minimum of 200 MB. See More

Top Con

No C# in the game scripting languages list

Top Con

Proprietary license

While the source code is available, the license is still proprietary for the code content (not just the creative assets such as textures and models). This source code is under a strict proprietary and NDA agreement. See More

Top Con

Marketplace isn't as good as Unity

Atomic Game Engine

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Top Pro

Cross-Platform

Windows / Linux / MacOS / iOS / Android / Web. See More

Top Con

Does not support new rendering APIs yet

No DirectX 12, Vulkan or Metal support yet. Possibly in the future. See More

CommunicativeBaduhenna's Experience

Atomic Game Engine's development is now abandoned. See More

Top Pro

Many features

2D/3D, physically based rendering, deferred rendering, skeletal and attribute animations, inverse kinematics, bullet physics, networking including full scene replication over a network, SQLite and ODBC database support, profiling, pathfinding and crowd navigation, TurboBadger UI, Imgui integration. See More

Top Con

Editor is underfeatured

Editor will likely be rewritten in the future. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with popular IDEs

Editor integrates with Visual Studio on Windows and MonoDevelop on Linux/MacOS. See More

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Multiple rendering APIs

Supports DirectX 9, Direct X 11, OpenGL and OpenGL ES. See More

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Multiple programming languages

In addition to C++ engine supports JavaScript/TypeScript/C# as first class citizens. See More

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Free

Free as in freedom and beer. Engine code and dependencies are licensed under MIT or other compatible permissive licenses. See More

Wave

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Top Pro

Integrates with popular IDEs

Wave integrates with Visual Studio on Windows, Xamarin Studio on Windows and Mac, and Monodevelop on Linux. See More

Top Con

Bad high-DPI support in Wave Editor for Windows

On high-DPI monitors with large system fonts, all layouts are corrupt and many UI elements stay unavailable. Unusable because of this. See More

Specs

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:iOS; Android

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Console targets:-

Top Pro

Hololens support

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Oculus Rift support

The Wave Engine team provides an official, open-source Oculus Rift extension via GitHub. See More

Top Pro

Video tutorials

Tutorials are important to learn stuff. See More

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Extensive learning material

In addition to online API documentation, the Wave Engine team provides tutorials via IndieDB, plus sample projects and "QuickStarters" via GitHub. See More

Flax Engine

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Free

Can be used for free until you hit a rather high revenue cap, at which point you have to pay royalties. See More

Top Con

New software

As is standard with new software, not all of the bugs have been ironed out yet. See More

IntuitiveMaetsill's Experience

Well made engine, especially considering how new it is. See More

Top Pro

Powerful C# scripting

C# scripting is really well made, comparable to Unity, but without any of the legacy cruft. See More

Top Con

Few plugins

Unlike more mature engines, there isn't a vibrant ecosystem of plugins yet. See More

Top Pro

Multiplatform

Supports most platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Nintendo Switch, ... See More

Top Con

Not open source

While the source code is available, it's not quite open source See More

Top Pro

Modern rendering backend

Has a very modern, performant and beautiful rendering backend. See More

Top Con

Not latest C# version

It uses Mono and is still on some variant of C# 7. See More

Top Pro

C++ support

The entire core is written in C++ and it supports writing game code in C++. The interoperability between C# and C++ is also nothing to scoff at. See More

Top Con

No OpenGL support

It only supports modern APIs, namely Vulkan and DirectX. This means that it won't run on very old machines. See More

Top Pro

Supports multiple IDEs

Works with any text editor and comes with proper support for Visual Studio, VSCode and Jetbrains Rider. See More

Top Pro

Excellent documentation

The documentation is well written, up to date and accepts improvements from the community. See More

Top Pro

Great and extensible editor

The editor is both powerful and simple. My favourite part is how easy it is to extend the editor with custom magic. See More

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Source code available

The entire source of the engine is available on Github, though not under an open source license. See More

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Desktop targets:Windows

Mobile targets:none

Dev platforms:linux

Console targets:none

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