Unreal Engine vs Unity Which Game Engine Is Best for You

Gaming is one of the highest revenue generating business at the moment. Last year only it produced over $100 Billion revenue alone and much more. Games have many dimensions like it can have the purpose of pure entertainment, learning with fun, changing the social behavior of the players and many others. There are many game development engines are available as of now, some of them are free, open source and paid. Each engine has its own features, programming language support, inbuilt libraries and other features. Each scenario needs some specific engine's  functionality. Among all the engine there are two gaming engine Unreal and Unity which are most popular and accepted. They have been very powerful and useful for the game development. Here is the comparison of these two game engines, so that it can help to choose your game engine for your need.

1. Platform 

There is no match in terms of support for different platforms for Unity engine. It supports almost every platform like PlayStation, smart tv, ios, android, web and other. Unreal has support also for these platforms but mainly it does not supports  Wii U and PlayStation Vita which is quite significant. The only platform which unreal supports and unity do not support that is html5. Unity has compatibility with almost every backyard device.

2. Programming language 

Unity uses javascript/C# as a programming language and Unreal uses C++ for game development. It is mainly developer's choice to use any of these. On top of this Unreal engine provides a Visual script called blueprint, it provides visual programming kind of feature to unreal engine. Unity engine has also brought up the playmaker plugin to avoid hardcore coding skills and making game development much easier and GUI based.

3.Community Support

Here both engine goes hand-in-hand. Both have very good communities and learning material is frequently available. Their forums are also very proactive, you can find a solution for queries very easily. Documentation for the Unreal engine is much more organized, on another hand, Untity has a slight edge in online courses and learning due to its early release.

4. 2D vs 3D 

Unity is mostly used for the lower level games like mobile games and other small devices games. Unity very much used for the 2d games and lower graphics. On other hands unreal engine is very much used for the high graphics and bigger games. Heavy games are mostly made on unreal engine and it has very comprehensive support for this and produces very high-quality graphics like the 3d world. Unity is useful for the beginners and unreal is for the professional users.

5.Pricing

Unreal engine version 4 is completely free, they only charge 5% royalty on games if your revenue is more then $12000 per year. Unity engine also has a free version for the beginners, but post 30 days is has $75 package on a monthly basis which has the support of all features. Pricing, in the end, seems like similar to the both engines. Unity has slightly a number of assets in the assets store.

6. Graphics features 

Unreal just overshadows unity engine in graphics. It produces very high-quality graphics for both mobile and other bigger devices. It has so many features like real life look, AI, Physics and other which makes it a winner by far.

7. System requirements

Unreal need higher configuration then Unity engine. Unity works fine in older and smaller system without any issue for mobile and app developer, but unreal gives very quality games so that it requires bigger and expensive systems. Unreal requires 64 windows system and higher memory for graphics, ram and clock speed.

These are some major factors which may identify engine for your requirements. Both engines work fine in different scenarios and can produce real revenue generating games for you and your customers. We at oodles are continuously working on the unreal engine for game development as we believe in high-quality work and providing really a real-life kind of user experience. Write us at [email protected] for your queries and information about game development, we will be very pleased to assist you.

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