Unity vs. Unreal: Which One is Best For You?

Playstation vs Xbox, Mario vs Sonic, Unreal vs Unity? Whether it’s consoles, characters, or game engines, people get passionate about defending their gaming industry favorites.

Focusing on the game engines, Unity and Unreal Engine (aka UE4) are the two most popular game engines on the market today. They are the go-to tools for most indie developers. While many game development studios use their own proprietary game engines, plenty use Unity or Unreal. 

So which engine is better? This is one of the most asked questions from the over half a million students that the team at GameDev.tv and I have taught over the last 5 years.

Unity vs Unreal Engine: history

Unreal Engine was developed by Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney in 1998. It launched alongside its debut title, “Unreal,” and was unique in allowing players to modify the game for the first time. Today Unreal is associated with “better graphics” and offers a big studio AAA-quality to the games that use it. Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine, has seen lots of success with its game Fortnite which has 200 million users and has generated revenue reported at $1 billion as of January 2019. Unreal Engine itself has 7 million users.

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