The Best Game Engines of 2021

Are you wondering what game engine you should use on your gamedev journey? Then this video is for you!

In previous videos, we have talked about game engines we personally like but for this episode, we asked the Ask Gamedev community to tell us about their game engine of choice. Well... the community has spoken. While there were too many suggestions to list, we’ve tabulated the votes, and have come up with the Ask Gamedev community’s top 5 favourite Game Development Engines.

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[tobiaswilhelmi]

1:12 Construct 3
4:23 GameMaker Studio 2
7:40 Unreal Engine
11:22 Unity
15:15 Honourable Mentions
19:45 Godot

[Verinius]

I just want to say thank you for everything that you are doing. The AskGameDev team have been helping out so many indiedevs and you certainly are a blessing to the indie game community!

[Luredreier]

15:43
"It's open source, that means that there's no royalties or subscriptions to pay"
No, open source means that the source code of the engine is freely available.
But depending on the open source license used it's actually possible to make open source products that costs money even as the source of that product remains open source.
Open source means free as in freedom not free as in gratis.
Although in the case of that engine it's probably gratis too.

[mycloudvip]

I must admit... after watching Game Engine Reviews for the past 5 years.... This video and your Channel simply outrun any other review out there. Congrats!!!!

[ReusableRocket]

This is probably the most in-depth video on which game engines are best. Usually a video might just list a few game engines, give a breif description, and move on. But this video goes into a ton of detail about which game engine is best for certain types of games like 2D and 3D, it also mentions compatibility with other devices, the coding language and if its text-based or visually-based, pricing, etc. Thank you so much for making this video, it’s super useful!

[HelperWesley]

Glad Gdevelop got an honorable mention, but it does make me a little sad that it didn't end up on the list properly.

It makes sense, we're less well known than other engines, but we're working on it with better games coming from our growing community. 👍

[martingoodson]

Godot at #1? I'm shocked! Shocked! :) Congratulations to Godot.

[SidFish]

Thanks heaps for the shout out at 19:30, love your channel :)

[rafaelgpontes]

I'm really glad Godot is drawing people's attention! It's a great engine!!

[CorianderGames]

Thank you so much for mentioning my upcoming game Miko Adventures Puffball at 16:09 ❤️
A very awesome video : )

[Montegasppa]

About Godot (which is my favourite), GDScript is just lackly inspired by Python, but brings a singular and peculiar feeling.

[auralitegames]

I'm interested in unity and Godot but I'm already learning unreal and I love it so far. Maybe eventually I'll get to those engines just to try it.

[raiseledwards]

I'm so happy Black Pellet showed up here even when my name was misspelled lol. Thank you so much!!!

[heart.s_]

I was smiling for the whole section of Godot, that it made it 1st and it's my favourite game engine.

[whycantwebefriends]

I usually dont comment much, but this video is great. its so in depth, giving advice on where to start each engine. i love it! thumbs up!

[publicmmi]

My fav. list: 3D: Unreal, Unity 2D: Unity, Godot 3D+2D: Unity, Godot 4.0 (we will see if it's 3D is improved)

[JamPunchStorytelling]

Clear and informative! Exactly what i needed, because i know _nothing_ about making games

[jalipeno]

as a foss fangirl godot is my personal favourite engine, and im currently using it to develop two games, an rpg with a mini rts battle system and a first person immersive sim metroidvania hybrid

[mohammediftekhar]

Godot is the best choice for python programmers 💜👌👏

[Dominik-K]

Thanks a lot for this amazing list! It'll come in handy for sure!