Why I’m switching from Unity to Unreal Engine

In this video, I'm going to tell you why I’m switching from Unity to Unreal Engine.

Unity made a lot of poor choices lately, especially with its install fee that made me, and a lot of game developers, question if they should stick with Unity or switch to a different engine.
This video is not supposed to be a "should YOU switch to Unreal" type of video, it's just why I'M switching to Unreal.

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I really hope you guys enjoy it
Love you all
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Chapters:
0:00 I'm switching to Unreal Engine
0:49 1 - It's Old
1:19 2 - So Many Features
2:26 3 - It's a GAME Engine
3:40 4 - BLUEPRINTS!!
4:02 5 - So Much FREE Stuff
4:51 6 - Epic Games
5:44 UE for 2D Games Kinda Sucks
6:13 Unreal HEAVY!
6:38 CPP
6:59 THE BIG TWIST
7:53 Godot
8:29 Thank You, Members!!

[kartoshkakartoffel]

No matter the engine, your talented work is one of many things i live for

[Musegrl]

Lixian, full-time father, full-time editor, part-time game maker... learning a new engine. Someone please give this man a vacation and a massage.

[muigogitoultrasonic]

I adore Lixian not only read his script but also provide some cute cutouts of his character to pop in time to time, with cool expressions

[Trident_Gaming]

That's fair, Unity broke their trust, and they don't deserve it back any time soon
Thank you for making this video and informing those yet to know of Unity's business strategy

[DMBLaan]

Just a heads up to Lixian and everyone else, Unity's bad business decisions weren't just from the CEO. Since they went public in 2020(?), the majority of it's Broad of Directors are just as bad, and some ACTUALLY WORSE than the CEO.

[saykocaty]

Hi Lixian
Amazing to be seeing you, I’ve been waiting for a video in a while now,
Please just use whatever you are comfortable with, no matter the engine you make your ideas will still be amazing to me and as an animator myself your animations inspires me a lot,
Please have fun making games and animations, you will very certainly see me again :)

[guardianreaper]

I Just started taking a Computer Science class. And I'm learning to make games and animation with scratch. I will be switching programs with the rest of the class in the next week or two. I'm glad I'm learning how to make games by just taking this class.

[dragonfluf]

In my experience, Godot is great for lightweight, simpler projects. It could probably fill your niche of quick 2D games for which Unreal would be "overkill".

[SolidStDj]

Remember that the CEO is just the frontman for the board of directors. Just because they have a scapegoat doesn't mean the people responsible are gone.

[hoonplay]

You make such good stuff. I can’t wait to see your next game, whatever engine you use. As for myself who was learning unity, I switched to unreal lol. Trust ain’t worth being broken twice

[CephalonBread]

I only needed the thumbnail to understand, king. I wish you good luck on the transition and hope it goes well c:

[TheRussianFloofCat]

The CEO being gone doesn't mean a whole lot when Unity is now effectively being ran by the board of directors. Replacing the CEO is more or less a formality at this point when the board makes pretty much all of the decisions. There's evidence to suggest that Riccitiello is not the main issue for Unity's decision. He's not blameless of course, but it does look like he's being made the scapegoat in all of this to protect the board members who are willing to do much worse in the future.

[sjonnoh]

Lixian: Knowing multiple engines is not a bad thing at all, which in that case....Maybe I learn Godot?
Mark: THIS IS BIG BRAIN TIME

[knightofaudio]

Just wanted to say thanks for making this video. Your game dev insight from your other vids is really cool to see, and I'm really glad you explored both the pros and cons of Unreal vs Unity. I've only dabbled so far, but I was torn about using Unity because although I've acquired quite a few assets over the years, Unreal seems like it can do almost everything those assets can do *natively*, so I think I'll be switching over to Unreal :)

[futuretrunks]

Lixian i love ur videos, i have discovered ur channel like 3-4 days ago. zaaa best editor and game dev

[TimM-kzvl]

You forgot one last thing with Unity, Lixian: The former Unity vice president of global talent acquisition filed a lawsuit this week against the company and ten of its employees alleging sexual harassment from CEO John Riccitiello and others in management positions as well as retaliation for reporting it and unlawful termination.

[pricklyfovvs]

It’s interesting hearing about why you chose to switch from Unity to the Unreal Engine. My heart goes out to all the game developers who have been affected by this change ❤.

[GracefulMage]

So Lixian just thought I'd inform ya just in case. Its not just the CEO at fault with Unity, a lot of the Company Board of directors are responsible for the bad changes they tried to do. That said love your passion for creaton and cant wait to see what you do next.

[LUCASBLZ]

Gadot uses Visual Script (Blueprints) you can safely translate what you learnt with time as anything would be done in unreal

Its mainly open source for the community to work on so it can be less streamlined and more complicated for what you want as one feature may not be available in the base kit and probably in a branch

However they do implement these features over time as it's again a giant community effort


However I've yet to see many indie games use it because it's still fairly uncharted territory for most because unity is so widely popular and known

[Lex-uqyj]

I had never heard Lixian's voice before, and hearing it for the first time is like when you read a book and you imagine the voice of a character and when they make a movie and you hear it for the first time It's like, well that doesn't sound right.