Which Unity Version should you Choose? 2023? 2022? LTS?

💬 What is the Best Unity Version? 2023? 2022? LTS? TECH?
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💬 Here's how to choose a Unity Version.
The way Unity organizes their versions is actually quite simple but can also be confusing to a beginner.
When you open Unity Hub you will see all the available versions you can download.
They are split into 3 categories, Preview (Alpha/Beta), Tech and LTS (Long Term Support)
If you want to beta test Unity, go with Preview
If you want to test new packages, go with Tech
If you just want to make games, go with LTS

At the time of this recording:
Preview: 2020.2
Tech: 2020.2
LTS: 2019.4

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[CodeMonkeyUnity]

💬 The Unity Version system makes perfect sense once you understand it, essentially just stick with the latest LTS unless you have a reason not to.
🌐 Have you found the videos Helpful and Valuable?

[CodeMonkeyUnity]

Funnily enough exactly on the day that I recorded the video 2020.3 LTS came out!
So going forward that's the version I will be using and you should too. Stay tuned for a video covering the new features added in the 2020 cycle.

[moonwatchereclipse]

In case you have the attention span of a potato:

2019 is mentally stable.
2020 works fine but has a few issues.
2021 is broken.

[muhamedbecirovic]

Unity recieved a silent LTS update 5 days ago, and you are right: 2020.3 is indeed LTS.

[Zayther]

Wow this is actually exactly what I was wondering a few days ago! Thank you for this informative video! :D

[LuisdelaRosa]

Thanks for explaining this! I didn't realize the Beta/Tech/LTS distinctions before. It looks like the latest LTS is now 2020.3.2f1, which was released on March 30th 2021.

[jean-michel.houbre]

Bad luck for the telescoping between the release of this excellent video and that of 2020.3.0f1.
Thank you for this presentation which clears up some gray areas.

[KaliadderExperiments]

Thanks for this! I was just scratching my head about this the other day 🤪 This explained a lot for me. Thanks!

[ash]

Short, informative, useful. Thank you

[oatcube]

Just downloaded the 2020.2.7 for my newest project. Thankfully I got it ready and released. Will have to test whether I want to upgrade my long term project from 2019LTS to 2020LTS.

[tauheedgamedev]

Thankyou so much, Iv was so close to giving up on Unity and moving to Godot or Unreal because of the issues iv been having with Unity but I can now see I'm on the preview version.

[PeterSedesse]

Honestly, they haven't added much that I need since 2019 LTS. They've gone back and forth on rendering pipelines and included no-script programming ( I script).

[jorikito]

Some of us are forced to use one of the new unstable versions, just because only on those versions has unity increased the amount of global shader keywords. Without it, installing just a few needed 3rd party tools and you're already over the limit and cannot build your game anymore..

[technofeeliak]

Very good! This was easy to understand. And you summarized the whole thing in the end. So thank you very much.

[squeakybunny]

The closest I have come to looking into what version would be best for me is clicking the "skip new version" button in the unity pop-up on startup

[norlesh]

No mention of the third number in the schema - I currently have 2020.3.26f1, 2020.3.29f1, 2020.3.30f1, 2020.3.31f1 and am sure by the time I open up Unity Hub to start a new project there will be yet another and all of them qualify as 'the' 2020.3 LTS version.

[zeathuss]

Love the videos! This is a really useful video!

[nz]

Learned it the hard way to make backups before migration..

[scottisitt]

Very helpful. Thanks for explaining all that!

[izeckx]

Thank you for this. As a newbie to unity I've been very confused about this. With any other app 've used (Game dev or not) using the latest is always the recommended thing, but Unity condused me because they have an "old" version as marked as recommended.