Unity Game Engine Alternatives

With recent pricing changes, several developers are looking for alternative game engines. The good news is, there are a ton of options out there! In this video we do a quick rundown of several of the ideal options available, depending on the type of game you are looking to create. For each engine mentioned, you can learn more in the link below.

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[nerdydrow]

this is Mike's moment's to shine, reviewing every engine under the sun is finally paying off

[diligencehumility]

Its a little sad to leave Unity behind. But it needs to be done.

[creepyog]

I love that open source is starting to become more popular.

[adog]

Gamemaker veteran here. Please do not move to gamemaker, gamemaker's parent company has been doing the same type of thing, arguably to a greater extent. I'm in the process of moving from gamemaker to godot.

[nbcde]

I hope to see some of these other projects get more support. Many of them are more capable than most people realize.

[jihunjang]

It's amazing that there are so many game engines that can replace Unity.

[Jephed_]

A Unity to Godot tutorial would actually be very much appreciated!!!

[Vastlee]

Stride 3D is a great contender. Though I am very interested in the Complete White Page as well. Seems quite powerful.

[AnnCatsanndra]

If you get a chance, please cover methods for facilitating modding in Godot games. "It's easy to mod" was pretty much the only reason I used to champion Unity, but now all the game devs I was doing modding for are moving to Godot, and my own project is going to be moving to Godot, so... I'd like some way to keep the modding scene alive.

[drewhjava]

Construct and Gdevelop aren't only visual programming. You can code in Javascript just as easily. That's how I do most things in Construct. Also don't forget DragonRuby and Love2d

[Soul_Patrol]

I'm not a game dev, but as someone who plays the games many devs using Unity make, thanks for the coverage.

The first couple days I was hoping Unity would u-turn but at this point I'm cheering on studios and indie developers talking with their money and taking it elsewhere.

[LPREZ]

Always happy to see Stride here :) one of our contributors recently redid the entire site so this video was decent timing for us.

[MaxIzrin]

Unigine has Unity's workflow, almost one to one, and Unreal's visuals (but no UI editor, so you'll have to make it through code, but they're working on it).
PS: Boy I really underestimated how bad Unity messed up, I thought people will get angry and Unity will back down, but this is death-spiraling fast.

[gladiumcaeli]

When people complain why do we get more engine by the day, this is the reason we should embrace more engine by the day. To have more options when things go south like unity just did

[MarcosCodas]

Thank you for the GDevelop shoutout, Mike! Hooray for open source software :)

[DisturbedNeo]

Seems to me like Flax is the best substitute for Unity. Similar features, similar experience, can script in C#, C++ or a Visual Scripting language, can publish to basically every platform, including PS5 and XSX.

Definitely gonna check it out.

[FlameHaze]

Do that tutorial please. Even if Unity reverses their idea, the trust is gone for good. They committed suicide in my eyes.

[Котвбезумнойшляпе]

I've been studying UNIGINE for a couple of years now and I definitely don't regret it))

[christianknuchel]

As mentioned in the links section, UPBGE was left out. I do feel it's worth an extra mention however, as Blender features some insane stuff in comparison to other engines, like geometry nodes, for example. Yes, it's not exactly a Unity engine alternative per se, but its unique integration with Blender might rekindle dormant game ideas or features that were previously backlogged or discarded, particularly ones centered around procedural or otherwise very unique 3D visuals.

[itslemonandrew]

Finally someone who mentions Flax i believe Flax is a great Unity alternative, because Godot has its own world of scripting and Node based layout, that could be intimidating for Unity devs.